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Commanders
Commanders
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It is impossible to examine any part of the war on terrorism in the twenty-first century without seeing the hand of Dick Cheney, Colin Powell or one of their loyalists. The Commanders, an account of the use of the military in the first Bush administration, is in many respects their story -- the intimate account of the tensions, disagreements and debates on the road to war.

Tom Weiner Philadelphia Inquirer A great book...no one beats Woodward.
Newsweek A telling narrative of leaders in crisis.
USA Today Few if any other reporters but Woodward could have gotten this close to the decision makers.
The New York Times Authoritative...a lively, behind-the-scenes docudrama...filled with accounts of secret Pentagon meetings, political maneuvers, second guesses, and roads not taken.
San Francisco Chronicle Woodward gets inside the minds of [Washington's] players to see how our leaders really think.
The Miami Herald As always, world-class reporter Woodward rewards his readers with the thrill of eavesdropping on the power elite.
BusinessWeek Riveting...the book moves at the pace of potboiler fiction.
ZNet, September 17, 2011
...Afghanistan, it never got the right person in more than 50 percent of the raids, as even senior commanders in JSOC recently admitted to theWashington Post. That indicated that a very large proportion of those killed and detained were ...
ZNet, September 16, 2011
...Afghanistan, it never got the right person in more than 50 percent of the raids, as even senior commanders in JSOC recently admitted to theWashington Post. That indicated that a very large proportion of those killed and detained were ...
Consortium News, September 12, 2011
...it didn’t get the right person in more than 50 percent of the raids, as even senior commanders in JSOC recently admitted to the Washington Post. That indicated that a very large proportion of those killed and detained were innocent ...
CounterPunch, October 8, 2009
...newspapers Pentagon correspondent Nancy Youssef Sep. 18. Then McChrystal's assessment was leaked to the Washington Post's Bob Woodward, generating a big headline in the Sep. 21 Washington Post about McChrystal's warning of "mission failure". ...
The New Republic Online, June 30, 2009
...Last month, I reported that Bob Woodward is at work on a new book about the Obama administration, which has been a cause of concern at the White House. At the time, sources told me that ...
Washington Post, March 13, 2009
...and lend their 100,000 fighters to the anti-al-Qaeda cause -- are presented as unknowable archetypes. U.S. commanders and soldiers report a warming of Iraqi hearts and minds and credit the change to the U.S. approach, but we have to take ...
Abu Dhabi National, March 5, 2009
...the most controversial and audacious American military operation in the post-Vietnam era. Ricks contradicts some existing accounts ? Bob Woodward?s book about the surge, The War Within, portrays the operation as originating conceptually in ...