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Jeffrey A. Engel is Director of the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University.
List of contents
Introduction: The American Occupation of Iraq by 2006 and the Search for a New Strategy
1. America's War in Iraq: 2003-2005
2. This Strategy Is Not Working: January-June 2006
3. Together Forward? June-August 2006
4. Silos and Stovepipes: September-October 2006
5. Setting the Stage: Early November 2006
6. A Sweeping Internal Review: Mid-Late November 2006
7. Choosing to Surge: December 2006
8. What Kind of Surge? Late December 2006-January 2007
9. How the "Surge" Came to Be
10. Iraq, Vietnam, and the Meaningof Victory
11. Decisions and Politics
12. Blood, Treasure, and Time: Strategy-Making for the Surge
13. Strategy and the Surge
14. Civil-Military Relations and the 2006 Iraq Surge
15. The Bush Administration's Decision to Surge in Iraq: A Long and Winding Road
16. The President as Policy Entrepreneur: George W. Bush and the 2006 Iraq Strategy Review
About the author
Timothy Andrews Sayle is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Toronto.
Jeffrey A. Engel is Director of the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University.
Hal Brands is the Henry A. Kissinger Distinguished Professor of Global Affairs at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. He is the author of
What Good is Grand Strategy?
William Inboden is Executive Director and William Powers, Jr., Chair of the Clements Center for National Security at the University of Texas at Austin.
Summary
This is the real story of how George W. Bush came to double-down on Iraq in the highest stakes gamble of his entire presidency. Drawing on extensive interviews with nearly thirty senior officials, including President Bush himself. The Last Card offers an unprecedented look into the process by which President Bush overruled much of the military...
