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...Pantheon Books, 2006. Maps. Photographs. Notes. Pp. 603. $27.95 ISBN: 0-375-42262-5

The recent Iraq Study Group report opens with, "The situation in Iraq is grave and deteriorating." These eight words succinctly highlight, at this critical juncture, the need for more complete understanding of the how, why, and what of this bewildering and crisis-ridden conflict.

Fortunately, a number of informed authors have recently stepped up to the task of providing answers to the questions. They have produced well written, albeit highly critical, books on the decision to go to war, the consequences of that decision, the impact in Iraq, and the grim foreign policy ramifications that will burden the United States for the foreseeable future. Among these are Gordon and Trainor's Cobra II, Bob Woodward's Plan of Attack and State of Denial, George Packer's The Assassins' Gate, Peter Galbraith's The End of Iraq, Nir Rosen's In the Belly of the Green Bird, and Tom Ricks' Fiasco. I will look at two of them here.

Michael Gordon (chief military correspondent for the New...

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