The Gamble – Audiobook Online

The Gamble is a critical analysis of General David Petraeus and the US military strategy during the Iraq War surge between 2006-2008. The book examines Petraeus’ leadership, his counterinsurgency approach, and how it evolved over the years. It also covers the politics of the Iraq War and the challenges faced by US forces in trying to secure the country. The author, Thomas Ricks, argues that Petraeus’ strategy was a gamble, but ultimately successful in reducing violence and stabilizing the country. However, he also acknowledges that the war in Iraq was a disaster from the start, with little planning and a poor understanding of the country’s complex history and culture. Ricks explores the tensions within the military and political leadership during this period, as well as the impact of the surge on the Iraqi people. He also examines how the lessons learned during this time have been applied in US military operations in other parts of the world, such as Afghanistan. Overall, The Gamble provides a detailed and thought-provoking analysis of one of the most important periods in modern American military history.

The Gamble – Audiobook Online By: Thomas E. Ricks

Fiasco, the #1 New York Times bestseller by Thomas E. Ricks, changed the political conversation about the war in Iraq – The Gamble was the next big news.

Ricks uses hundreds of hours of exclusive interviews with top officers in Iraq and special on-site reporting to document the inside story of the Iraq War since late 2005 that only he can. . He considers the events that took place when the army was forced to calculate for itself, a raid was launched and a very different war began.

Since early 2007, a new military order has guided US strategy. Several top U.S. officials currently in Iraq actually opposed the 2003 invasion, and almost all of them harshly criticized the way the war played out between then and 2006. The heart of the story was General David Petraeus, a military intellectual who had gathered around him an unprecedented number of officers with both combat experience and doctorates.

The Gamble offers news breaking information, revealing behind-the-scenes disagreements between top commanders. We learn that almost every single officer in the chain of command fought the surge. Many of Petraeus’s closest advisers went to Iraq extremely pessimistic, doubting that the surge would have any effect, and his own boss was skeptical that he dispatched an admiral to Baghdad in the summer of 2007 to come up with a strategy to replace Petraeus’s. That same boss later flew to Iraq to try to talk Petraeus out of his planned congressional testimonies.

For Petraeus, winning in Iraq meant prolonging the war. Thomas E. Ricks concludes that the war will likely drag on for another five to 10 years – and that outcome is a best-case scenario. His startling conclusion, outlined in the last line of the book, is that “the events by which the Iraq war will be remembered by us and the world have yet to happen”.

Like its predecessor, Fiasco, this is a fluid, engaging work that focuses on the US military experience. That’s not to say there isn’t a lot of treatment for Iraqi politics, but it’s good for what it is. Looking back, it probably seemed a little scared of Petraeus, but not to the point of being too fat.

Both in ‘Fiasco’ and ‘The Gamble’ by Tom Ricks reenact controversial decisions made in Washington by those in the Bush Administration and by Generals and local combat commanders in Iraq through through personal recollection of contemporary conversations as if you were ‘a fly on the wall’ during the years we all died fighting in Iraq… a perspective that those who care most of us have never experienced through the media.

 

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