Cobra II
Subtitle: the inside story of the invasion and occupation of Iraq
By: Michael Gordon and Bernard Trainor
Contributors: Trainor, Bernard E., 1928-2018
Publisher: Atlantic
Published: 2006
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 603
ISBN-13: 9781843543527; 9781843545231
Subjects: Iraq War, 2003-2011
Description: Informed by access to still-secret documents, interviews with top field commanders, and a review of the military's own internal after-action reports, this is the definitive chronicle of America's invasion and occupation of Iraq--a conflict that could not be lost but one that the United States failed to win decisively. From the Pentagon to the White House to the American command centers in the field, the book reveals the inside story of how the war was actually planned and fought. Drawing on classified United States government intelligence, it traces the interactions among the generals, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, and President George W. Bush; provides an account of how Saddam Hussein and his high command developed and prosecuted their war strategy; reconstructs the principal battles from interviews with those who fought them; and documents with precision the failures of American intelligence and the mistakes in administering postwar Iraq.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.