America's Misadventures in the Middle East

Name: America's Misadventures in the Middle East
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ISBN: 9781935982180

ISBN-10: 1935982184

ISBN-13: 9781935982180

Edition: 2010

Authors: Chas W. Freeman, William B. Quandt

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Ambassador Chas W. Freeman Jr. is one of America's most brilliant, experienced--and witty--diplomats. America's Misadventures starts with his previously unpublished reflection on Pres. George H. W. Bush's handling of the Iraq-Kuwait crisis of 1990-91. (He was U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia at the time.) In the thoughtful essays that follow, Freeman reflects on the origins of Washington's many intelligence failures in the Middle East, "the American way of war", and Washington's failure in recent decades to plan for a stable political end-state for the wars it has so cavalierly launched. As Prof. William B. Quandt notes in his Foreword: there is much to learn about "old-style" diplomacy…

Book details

List price: $21.99
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Just World Books
Publication date: 9/1/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 230
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.946