Elusive Victories_ The American Presidency at War-Oxford University Press (2012)

412 notes to pages 271‒273 focus on the military side of the equation, stressing the fact that Ameri- can forces were never best ...

notes to pages 273‒277 413 Memoir of Two Iraq Wars (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2009). Because few documents about the Iraq Wa ...

414 notes to pages 277‒281 Rose, How Wars End , 242. On the early warnings to the incoming Bush administration of the al-Qaeda ...

notes to pages 281‒283 415 Badie, “Groupthink, Iraq, and the War on Terror.” One noteworthy exception was Marine Major General ...

416 notes to pages 284‒289 Gordon and Trainor, Cobra II , 41–43. Gordon and Trainor, Cobra II , 71. Hess, Presidential Decision ...

notes to pages 289‒292 417 Ricks, Fiasco , 109–10. Although critics blamed Iraqi exiles, especially Ahmed Chalabi and his Iraqi ...

418 notes to pages 292‒299 Eric Schmitt, “Pentagon Contradicts General on Iraq Occupation Force’s Size,” New York Times , Febru ...

notes to pages 299‒301 419 Bensahel, “Mission Not Accomplished,” 461. Ricks, Fiasco , 154–55. Rose, How Wars End , 248–49. Bens ...

420 notes to pages 301‒304 Rumsfeld said he had not been involved in or even aware of the decision to make Sanchez commander in ...

notes to pages 304‒311 421 supplied with American comforts that helped boost morale. Woodward, State of Denial , 288, 336; Ricks ...

422 notes to pages 311‒316 Woodward, State of Denial , 424; Dyson, “George W. Bush, the Surge, and Presidential Leadership,” 56 ...

notes to pages 317‒321 423 Dyson, “George W. Bush, the Surge, and Presidential Leadership,” 581; Woodward, War Within , 202–3. ...

424 notes to pages 321‒333 Ricks, Gamble , 155. Nyhamar, “Accidental Vacuum or Counterinsurgency Logic?” 9. Ricks, Gamble , 254 ...

notes to pages 333‒347 425 Woodward, Obama’s Wars , 166, 213, 225; Baker, “How Obama Came to Plan for ‘Surge’ in Afghanistan.” ...

426 notes to pages 347‒358 Gideon Rose, How Wars End: Why We Always Fight the Last Battle (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2010). ...

427 Index Abizaid, John , 302 , 304–5 , 313 , 315 , 420 n 144 Abrams, Creighton , 246 , 255–57 , 259–62 , 304 , 411 n 179 Abu Gh ...

428 index Appomattox , 52 , 79 Arkansas , 35 , 58 , 71 Army Appropriation Act of 1916 , 105 Army of Northern Virginia (Confedera ...

index 429 Bush, George W. , 5 , 10 , 19 , 23 , 29 , 273 , 277–78 , 280–81 , 294–95 , 298 , 302 , 323–25 and allies , 279 , 284 , ...

430 index Church, Frank , 263 Churchill, Winston , 143 , 146 , 155 , 158–59 , 169 , 171–73 , 175–76 , 179–80 , 182–85 , 198 , 30 ...

index 431 Debs, Eugene Victor , 117 Decker, George H. , 222 , 404 n 57 Defense Department. See United States Department of Defen ...