I enjoyed Thomas Ricks “-Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq” that came out in 2006and was stunned at the level of raw stupidity our leaders were capable of.
Now it’s 9 years later. Is there a better, more complete or complementary history of the Iraq war that you can recommend?
Not really a different take on the Iraq war, and covers a different period of time, but I read Coll’s “Ghost Wars” before “Fiasco”, and thought the pairing complemented each other.
“Ghost Wars” is about Afghanistan up to 9/11, and speaks to a LOT of lessons that should have been learned by the time of the Iraq war.