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Dark Victory: America's Second War Against Iraq Hardcover – April 1, 2004

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A prominent national security analyst provides a critical examination of the origins, objectives, conduct, and consequences of the U.S. war against Iraq in this major new study. Focusing on the intersection of world politics, U.S. foreign policy, and the invasion and occupation of Iraq, Jeffrey Record presents a full-scale policy analysis of the war and its aftermath. As he looks at the political and strategic legacies of the 1991 Gulf War, the impact of 9/11 and neo-conservative ideology on the George W. Bush White House, and the formulation of the Bush Doctrine on the use of force, he assesses rather than describes, judges rather than recites facts. He decries the Bush administration's threat conflation of Saddam Hussein's Iraq and Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda, and calls U.S. plans inadequate to meet postwar challenges in Iraq. With the support of convincing evidence, the author concludes that America's war against Iraq was both unnecessary and damaging to long-term U.S. security interests. He argues that there was no threatening Saddam-Osama connection and that even if Iraq had the weapons of mass destruction that the Bush administration believed necessitated war, it could have been readily deterred from using them, just as it had been in 1991. Record faults the administration for preventive, unilateralist policies that alienated friends and allies, weakened international institutions important to the United States, and saddled America with costly, open-ended occupation of an Arab heartland. He contends that far from being a major victory against terrorism, the war provided Islamic jihadists an expanded recruiting base and a new front of operations against Americans. Such a solid, thought-provoking study merits attention.

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"...considerable food for thought, along with expert analysis of America's misadventure in Iraq." ― Indianapolis Star "What makes Record's analysis significant is his exploration of the linkage between politics, strategy, and operations." ― Journal of Military History

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Jeffrey Record is a former professional staff member of the Senate Armed Services Committee and the author of six books, including Making War, Thinking History: Munich, Vietnam, and Presidential Uses of Force from Korea to Kosovo and The Wrong War: Why We Lost in Vietnam.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Naval Institute Press; Stated First Printing edition (April 1, 2004)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1591147115
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1591147114
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.05 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.25 x 1 x 9.25 inches

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Reviewed in the United States on April 27, 2005

I liked this even less than the jingoistic, "glory of war" stuff. I'm still looking for the serious study that views the world as a hard place, recognizes that for a large part of the Middle East, America is a symbol of evil, and criticizes American public policy from the perspective of the tensions of imperfect knowledge and dire threat.

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Michael Rubin

Dark Victory: America's Second War Against Iraq

Reviewed in the United States on March 8, 2006

In 1993, Record, a former Senate Armed Services Committee staff member, authored Hollow Victory: A Contrary View of the Gulf War[1] in which he took President George H.W. Bush to task for not ousting Saddam Hussein. In the present book, Record takes George W. Bush to task for having corrected his father's mistake.

The new book, while well written, is reduced by the author's permeating antipathy for so-called neoconservatives, alleging without proof that a sympathy for Israel's Likud Party colors their view of the world. While it is true that neoconservatives tend to be staunch supporters of Israel, every president since Harry Truman has defended Israel's right to exist and to defend itself. Nor is there anything new about U.S. support for democracy or opposition to terror. The only recent development is a willingness of the U.S. government to reach out to new partners, even if this means working without traditional allies. Record further blames neoconservatives for "the president's controversial use-of-force doctrine," curiously overlooking the impact of 9/11 on Bush's thinking.

Record holds neoconservatives responsible for pursuing policies that cause many adversaries to dislike the United States. He laments "the Bush administration's foreign policy fails to grasp the fact that others do not see us as we see ourselves-that is, as a benign and historically exceptional force." But the Bush administration does grasp this; it just believes that being respected is more important than being liked. The costs of winning Syrian, North Korean, or Chinese favor for U.S. policy would be too high if it meant abandonment of democracies such as Israel, South Korea, and Taiwan. Conversely, Libyan strongman Mu'ammar al-Qadhafi may not like the United States, but it was his respect for the Bush administration's willingness to back force with military action that led to his decision to abandon his nuclear ambitions.

Record's style is confident and authoritative with plenty of facts cited and examples given. A close read, though, shows that Record ignores facts that undermine his arguments. For example, he trumpets a 1999 UNICEF report that relied on Iraqi government statistics to conclude that sanctions on Iraq killed 500,000 Iraqi children; he ignores a joint Food and Agriculture Organization and World Health Organization study the following year that found that half the Iraqi population was overweight, and that hypertension and diabetes-not diseases of the hungry-were among the leading causes of Iraqi mortality.[2] Other facts he simply gets wrong. How could the Defense Department have airlifted Ahmad Chalabi into Iraq during military operations when Chalabi had returned to Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq months before the war began?

Dark Victory has many other weaknesses. Record engages in one-man's-terrorist-is-another's-patriot moral relativism. He conflates the Afghan mujahideen with Al-Qaeda, an anachronism that ignores a decade-long fight between Al-Qaeda pan-Islamists and Afghan nationalists such as Ahmad Shah Masud. While determined to debunk any analogy between postwar Japan and Iraq, Record ignores the South Korea example, frequently cited by Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz. Notably absent from a book about Iraq is any consideration of what Iraqis think; Record writes as if Iraqis do not exist.

A book should be more than a glorified op-ed. Unfortunately, Dark Victory is not.

Middle East Quarterly, Spring 2005

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Rauol Duke, Jr.

Stinging indictment

Reviewed in the United States on June 18, 2004

With sound research and reasoning, Dr. Record shreds the Bush administration's strategy and tactics with respect to the Iraq war and the "war on terrorism". I particularly was impressed with his use of the quotes of those involved with Desert Storm, as to why the U.S. led coalition didn't invade Baghdad in '91; the logic that Cheney, Powell, Wolfowitz, Rice, Scowcroft, Schwartzkopf, and Bush the Elder used then was every bit as correct now as then. The limitations of the "Bush Doctrine", and its profound shortcomings are also fully examined, as is the now-fully discredited notion that Saddam and Osama were bedfellows, and the peril that this linkage causes to U.S. foreign policy.
This is no shrill screech. This is an articulate, well presented, and hard to argue with indictment of a dangerous turn in the history of our nation and the world. It deserves to be read-- in fact, it needs to be read.

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Julia M. Nesbitt

Anti-American Propanda

Reviewed in the United States on November 15, 2005

This book attempts to link disconnected half-truths with pseudologic to push an idealogical agenda. It is shocking an disappointing to me that in a time of war we allow enemy propaganda like this to demoralize our populace and troops.

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