The Threatening Storm: The Case for Invading Iraq
A Politics, Nonfiction, War book. If any book shaped the thinking on Iraq policy back in 2002, this one was it...
In The Threatening Storm, Kenneth M. Pollack, one of the world’s leading experts on Iraq, provides a masterly insider’s perspective on the crucial issues facing the United States as it moves toward a new confrontation with Saddam Hussein.For the past fifteen years, as an analyst on Iraq for the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Council, Kenneth Pollack has studied Saddam as closely as anyone else in the United States. In 1990, he was one of only three CIA analysts to predict the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. As the principal author of the CIA’s history of Iraqi military strategy and operations during the Gulf War, Pollack gained rare insight into the methods and workings of what he believes to be the most brutal regime since Stalinist Russia.Examining all sides of the debate and bringing a keen eye to the military and geopolitical forces at work, Pollack ultimately comes to this controversial conclusion: through our own mistakes, the perfidy of others, and Saddam’s cunning, the United States is left with few good policy options regarding Iraq. Increasingly, the option that makes the most sense...
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- ISBN: 9780375509285 / 375509283
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The case for an invasion was not confined to gun-toting warmongers. There was a deep, profound, and convincing case for removing Saddam.The author covers all of the most touted alternatives to war, including smart-sanctions, and explains why none of them were likely to be successful. ummmm....so much for weapons of mass destruction in iraq theory...thanks for nothing pollack. a 900 page book full of CIA bs. If any book shaped the thinking on Iraq policy back in 2002, this one was it it. The author made his reputation as a young CIA analyst who predicted Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990. He has since worked in think tanks and on the National Security Council and has long been a prominent voice in this debate. He walks his reader through...
