Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2003 to 2005 - Thomas E. Ricks

Thomas E. Ricks is an adviser on national security at the New America Foundation, where he participates in its Future of War project. He was previously a fellow at the Center for a New American Security and is a contributing editor of Foreign Policy magazine, for which he writes the prizewinning blog The Best Defense . Ricks covered the U.S. military for The Washington Post from 2000 through 2008. Until the end of 1999 he had the same beat at The Wall Street Journal , where he was a reporter for seventeen years. A member of two Pulitzer Prize-winning teams, he covered U.S. military activities in Somalia, Haiti, Korea, Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Kuwait, Turkey, Afghanistan, and Iraq. He is the author of several books, including The Generals , The Gamble , and the number one New York Times bestseller Fiasco , which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His newest book, Churchill and Orwell: The Fight For Freedom , is a New York Times bestseller.