Operation Iraqi Freedom : a strategic assessment /
Thomas Donnelly.
- Washington, D.C. : AEI Press, 2004.
- xvi, 125 p. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Road to Baghdad, 1991 -- The political and strategic setting -- The 1991 Gulf War -- Containment under Clinton -- Smart sanctions and containment, "W" style -- The making of the Bush doctrine -- The road to war -- Military planning -- Planning for Iraq after 9/11 -- The need for speed -- "Go early, go ugly" -- Combat operations -- Into Iraq -- Piercing Saddam's shield -- On to Baghdad -- Removing the regime -- The counterinsurgency campaign -- Postwar chaos -- The counterinsurgency -- The war that hasn't happened -- Iraqi freedom : an assessment -- Politics, not as usual -- A doctrine in search of a strategy -- A spike-or the new baseline?