Name: obama`s wars
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Author: Bob Woodward
ISBN: 9781439172506

Type

Physical Book

Author

Bob Woodward

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Year

2011

Language

English

Pages

439

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.1x14x3.3 cm

Weight

0.41 kg.

ISBN13

9781439172506

Synopsis "obama`s wars"

In Obama's Wars, Bob Woodward provides the most intimate and sweeping portrait yet of the young president as commander in chief. Drawing on internal memos, classified documents, meeting notes and hundreds of hours of interviews with most of the key players, including the president, Woodward tells the inside story of Obama making the critical decisions on the Afghanistan War, the secret campaign in Pakistan and the worldwide fight against terrorism. At the core of Obama's Wars is the unsettled division between the civilian leadership in the White House and the United States military as the president is thwarted in his efforts to craft an exit plan for the Afghanistan War. "So what's my option?" the president asked his war cabinet, seeking alternatives to the Afghanistan commander's request for 40,000 more troops in late 2009. "You have essentially given me one option...It's unacceptable." "Well," Secretary of Defense Robert Gates finally said, "Mr. President, I think we owe you that option." It never came. An untamed Vice President Joe Biden pushes relentlessly to limit the military mission and avoid another Vietnam. The vice president frantically sent half a dozen handwritten memos by secure fax to Obama on the eve of the final troop decision. President Obama's ordering a surge of 30,000 troops and pledging to start withdrawing U.S. forces by July 2011 did not end the skirmishing. General David Petraeus, the new Afghanistan commander, thinks time can be added to the clock if he shows progress. "I don't think you win this war," Petraeus said privately. "This is the kind of fight we're in for the rest of our lives and probably our kids' lives." Hovering over this debate is the possibility of another terrorist attack in the United States. The White House led a secret exercise showing how unprepared the government is if terrorists set off a nuclear bomb in an American city--which Obama told Woodward is at the top of the list of what he worries about all the time. Verbatim quotes from secret debates and White House strategy sessions--and firsthand accounts of the thoughts and concerns of the president, his war council and his generals--reveal a government in conflict, often consumed with nasty infighting and fundamental disputes. Woodward has discovered how the Obama White House really works, showing that even more tough decisions lie ahead for the cerebral and engaged president. Obama's Wars offers the reader a stunning, you-are-there account of the president, his White House aides, military leaders, diplomats and intelligence chiefs in this time of turmoil and danger.

Bob Woodward

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Bob Woodward (nacido en Geneva, Illinois, en 1943) es un periodista, escritor y editor estadounidense, considerado uno de los grandes referentes del periodismo de investigación moderno. Su nombre está estrechamente ligado al escándalo Watergate, que investigó junto a Carl Bernstein para The Washington Post a principios de la década de 1970. Las revelaciones de ambos sobre las actividades ilegales del gobierno de Richard Nixon llevaron finalmente a la dimisión del presidente en 1974 y les valieron el Premio Pulitzer en 1973.

Woodward se caracteriza por su minucioso trabajo de documentación, su estilo analítico y su capacidad para obtener información de primera mano de las fuentes más altas del poder político. A lo largo de su carrera, ha escrito numerosos libros sobre la Casa Blanca y la política estadounidense, muchos de ellos basados en entrevistas y documentos confidenciales. Entre sus obras más conocidas están All the President’s Men, The Final Days, Bush at War, Fear: Trump in the White House y Rage.

Como periodista de The Washington Post, Woodward ha mantenido su influencia durante más de cinco décadas, siendo un símbolo del periodismo independiente y de la búsqueda incansable de la verdad en el ámbito político y gubernamental.

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