Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq

摘要

Using contemporary events to discuss or exemplify a management issue is an excellent way to engage students in any topic. Learning from military events is likewise an oft-used way to consider the lessons of history. Scott Snook's detailed explanation of the accidental shootdown of two U.S. Army helicopters over Northern Iraq in 1994 comes to mind here (Snook, 2000). Unlike Snook, who examined one discrete event within a limited timeframe. Ricks focuses on a much more complicated series of events, indeed an entire military campaign (Operation Iraqi Freedom), as it has unfolded over a period of years.