U.S. strategy in Iraq

In a nearly unprecedented move, to replace Shinseki, Rumsfeld recalled to active duty a retired general who was more likely to accept his theory that we could win a war in Iraq and establish a stable government with a small number of troops. The Defense Department has fought the war on the cheap bec...

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Published in:Military Review 2007-03, Vol.87 (2), p.105
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