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Dyson, Stephen

 
9780719091704: Leaders in conflict: Bush and Rumsfeld in Iraq
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0719091705 ISBN 13: 9780719091704
Verlag: Manchester University Press, 2014

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Beneath the violence of the US war in Iraq was a subterranean conflict between President Bush and Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld, rooted in their different beliefs and leadership styles. Bush was prepared to pay a high cost in American lives, treasure, and prestige to win. Rumsfeld favoured turning the war over to the Iraqis, and was comfortable with the risk that Iraq would disintegrate into chaos. Only after Bush removed Rumsfeld in late 2006 did he bring US strategy into line with his goals, sending additional troops to Iraq and committing to continued US involvement. In Leaders in conflict, Stephen Benedict Dyson shows that Bush and Rumsfeld thought about international politics, and about leadership, in divergent ways, and demonstrates the impact these differences had on the course of the war. The book is based upon more than two dozen interviews with administration insiders, and will appeal to those interested in the US presidency, US foreign policy, leadership and wartime decision making.

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Stephen Benedict Dyson is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Connecticut

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Beneath the violence of the US war in Iraq was a subterranean conflict between President Bush and Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld, rooted in their different beliefs and leadership styles. Bush was prepared to pay a high cost in American lives, treasure, and prestige to win. Rumsfeld favoured turning the war over to the Iraqis, and was comfortable with the risk that Iraq would disintegrate into chaos. Only after Bush removed Rumsfeld in late 2006 did he bring US strategy into line with his goals, sending additional troops to Iraq and committing to continued US involvement. Bush abandoned Rumsfeld’s withdrawal approach, predicated upon the beliefs that 'it's the Iraqis’ country,' and 'we have to take our hand off the bicycle seat.'

In Leaders in conflict, Stephen Benedict Dyson shows that Bush and Rumsfeld thought about international politics, and about leadership, in divergent ways, and demonstrates the impact these differences had on the course of the war. The book is based upon more than two dozen interviews with administration insiders, and appeals to those interested in US foreign policy, the US presidency, leadership and wartime decision making.

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Verlag
Manchester University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2014
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0719091705
ISBN 13 
9780719091704
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
152
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