Summary: Tell Me How This Ends E-Book

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• Herausgeber: Political Book Summaries
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 17

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

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The must-read summary of Linda Robinson's book: “Tell Me How This Ends: General David Petraeus and the Search for a Way Out of Iraq”.

This complete summary of "Tell Me How This Ends" by Linda Robinson presents her account, based on extensive interviews with General David Petraeus and his subordinate commanders, of the Iraq War's endgame, and shows the different options that Obama had when he took office in 2009.

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To learn more, read "Tell Me How This Ends" and discover the outlook for the Iraq War after several years of fighting, and how an endpoint might be reached.

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Book Presentation: Tell Me How This Ends by Linda Robinson

Book Abstract

After a series of disastrous missteps in its conduct of the war, the White House in 2006 appointed General David Petraeus as the Commanding General of the coalition forces. Tell Me How This Ends is an inside account of his attempt to turn around a failing war. Robinson conducted extensive interviews with Petraeus and his subordinate commanders and spent weeks with key U.S. and Iraqi divisions. The result is a book that tells the full story of the Iraq War’s endgame, and lays out the options that will be facing President Obama when he takes office in January 2009.

About the Author

Linda Robinson is an author in residence at the Phillip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies at the John Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies. She has covered national security matters for Foreign Affairs, U.S. News and World Report, and the New Republic, including wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Latin America. She is also the author of the bestseller Masters of Chaos. In 2004, she won the Gerald R. Ford Prize for reporting on National Defense.

Summary of Tell Me How This Ends (Linda Robinson)

Introduction

In 2006, the Iraq War seemed lost. Shia and Sunni factions seemed on the verge of civil war and the American public had grown discouraged to the point of hopelessness. The Iraq War, already a defining event of our time, was frequently compared to America’s failure in Vietnam. In 2007, however, the Bush administration initiated an ambitious new counterinsurgency strategy led by General David Petraeus, which has dramatically improved security for ordinary Iraqis and turned the tide in America’s favor. It is far too early – and conditions in Iraq are way too fragile – to say the worst is over. But, it already seems clear that the accomplishments of General Petraeus and U.S. troops have earned a special place in the annals of American history.