Thomas E. Ricks, senior Pentagon correspondent for the Washington Post, puts forth in Fiasco a masterful reckoning with the planning and execution of the American military invasion and occupation of Iraq, now with a preface on recent developments. Ricks draws on the exclusive cooperation of an extraordinary number of American personnel—including more than one hundred senior officers—and access to more than 30,000 pages of official documents, many of them never before made public. Tragically, it is an undeniable account—explosive, shocking, and authoritative—of unsurpassed tactical success combined with unsurpassed strategic failure that indicts some of America’s most powerful and honored civilian and military leaders.
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Thomas E. Ricks es consejero de seguridad nacional en la New America Foundation, donde participa en el proyecto «El futuro de la guerra». Con anterioridad fue fellow en el Center for a New American Security. Colabora de forma habitual en la revista Foreign Policy, para la que escribe el blog The Best Defense. Miembro de dos equipos de reporteros ganadores del Pulitzer, ha cubierto acciones militares de Estados Unidos en Somalia, Haití, Corea, Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Kuwait, Turquía, Afganistán e Irak. Es autor de varios libros, incluidos The Generals, The Gamble y el bestseller Fiasco, que fue finalista al premio Pulitzer.