Description
Leap of Faith is the first comprehensive and objective history of the decision to invade Iraq. Based on nine years of research, over 100 interviews with participants in the drama, and information from hundreds of U.S. and British declassified documents, Mike Mazarr shows how the most impressive and experienced foreign policy team made the greatest strategic folly of the century.
Mazarr reveals that a combination of messianic certainty, cultural deference, and administrative infighting and incompetence allowed the decision to be made without any examination of the ways in which it could unravel. So when it did, no one had any answers.
Leap of Faith is a parable of how good intentions can go wrong, and a cautionary tale about any international entanglement.
About the Author
Michael J. Mazarr is a senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation. He has been a faculty member and associate dean at the U.S. National War College and senior fellow and project leader at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He served in the U.S. Navy Reserve and has worked as an aide to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and as a defense staffer on Capitol Hill. He holds degrees from Georgetown University and the University of Maryland School of Public Affairs.
Book Information
ISBN 9781541768369
Author Michael J. Mazarr
Format Hardback
Page Count 528
Imprint PublicAffairs,U.S.
Publisher PublicAffairs,U.S.
Weight(grams) 780g
Dimensions(mm) 242mm * 156mm * 44mm
