War of necessity - War of choice
Subtitle: A Memoir of Two Iraq Wars
By: by Richard N. Haass.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, NY, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9781416549024
Subjects: Bush, George W. -- 1946- -- Political and social views; Bush, George, -- 1926- -- Political and social views; Iraq War, 2003- -- Causes; Iraq War, 2003- -- Political aspects; Persian Gulf War, 1991 -- Causes; Persian Gulf War, 1991 -- Political aspects; United States -- Politics and government -- 1989-; United States -- Foreign relations -- Middle East; Middle East -- Foreign relations -- United States; United States -- Military policy
Description: Richard Haass--a member of the National Security Council staff for the first President Bush and the director of policy planning in the State Department for Bush II--contrasts the decisions that shaped the conduct of the two Iraq wars and makes a crucial distinction between the 1991 and 2003 conflicts, while offering an examination of the means and ends of U.S. foreign policy: how it should be made, what it should seek to accomplish, and how it should be pursued.
Table of contents: title: A tale of two wars
pagenum: 1; title: The winding road to war
pagenum: 17; title: Desert shield
pagenum: 60; title: War of necessity
pagenum: 116; title: The Clinton interregnum
pagenum: 154; title: The 9/11 presidency
pagenum: 168; title: Prelude to war
pagenum: 202; title: War of choice
pagenum: 233; title: Takeaways from two wars.
pagenum: 267; title: Appendix
pagenum: 279; title: Acknowledgements
pagenum: 295; title: Notes
pagenum: 297; title: Index
pagenum: 325