No End in Sight: Iraq's Descent into ChaosThe first book of its kind to chronicle the reasons behind Iraq's descent into guerilla war, warlord rule, criminality, and anarchy, No End In Sight is a shocking story of wholesale incompetence, recklessness, and venality. Culled from over 200 hours of footage collected for the film, the book provides a candid and alarming retelling of the events following the fall of Baghdad in 2003 by high ranking officials, Iraqi civilians, American soldiers, and prominent analysts. Together, these voices reveal the principal errors of U.S. policy that largely created the insurgency and chaos that engulf Iraq today -- and what we could and should do about them now. No End In Sight marks the first time Americans will be allowed inside the White House, Pentagon, and Baghdad's Green Zone to understand for themselves the disintegration of Iraq -- and how arrogance and ignorance turned a military victory into a seemingly endless and deepening nightmare of a war. |
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THREE ORHA 71 | 71 |
FOUR The Looting 104 | 104 |
PART 2 OCCUPATION | 139 |
FIVE Bremer Begins 141 | 141 |
The Disbanding of the Iraqi Military 163 | 163 |
PART 3 WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? | 407 |
ELEVEN Consequences 409 | 409 |
TWELVE Current and Future US Policy in Iraq 463 | 463 |
EPILOGUE Reflections 517 | 517 |
Acknowledgments 565 | 565 |
A Brief History of Iraq before the War 569 | 569 |
Timeline of the War in Iraq 577 | 577 |
Contributors and Key Actors 587 | 587 |
SEVEN The Police Crime and the Security Vacuum 234 | 234 |
EIGHT The Civilian Occupation and the CPA 266 | 266 |
NINE Insurgency Militias and Sectarian Violence 312 | 312 |
TEN The Military Occupation 370 | 370 |
Statistical Graphs 617
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Index 629 | 629 |
About the Author 641 | 641 |
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