Owls and Eagles
Subtitle: Ending the Foreign Policy Flights of Fancy of Hawks, Doves, and Neo-Cons
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Published: June 28, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9780742549296
Subjects: United States; Politics/International Relations; Iraq War, 2003; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Public Policy - General; International Relations - General; Political Science / General; 2001-; Foreign relations
Description: "Leading national security strategist Harlan K. Ullman is well known for his aggressive, no-nonsense approach to U.S. foreign policy. By his own description, he demands a smarter, realistic policy, one that is "informed by fact and reason and not ideology, and tough when it must be.""

"The time span of the author's columns reprinted here (and first appearing largely for the Washington Times) is no coincidence. Owls and Eagles begins with the onset of the controversial U.S.-led war in Iraq in March 2003 and ends twenty months later, shortly after President George W. Bush's reelection. What overly ambitious, under-informed goals inspired the United States to launch the preemptive war? What were the domestic and electoral factors that led to the president's decision? And, perhaps most important, what are the consequences of the unilateral war to the standing of the United States in the global community and to the legacy of George W. Bush?"--Jacket.