In this brisk and assured fiction debut, set in a near-future Washington, D.C., Washington Post Pentagon correspondent Ricks (author of Making the Corps, an account of boot-camp training) crafts a ...

With little good news coming out of Iraq, a veteran war reporter argues that the U.S. set itself up for failure within the first months of... 'Fiasco': The Turning Point in the Iraq War MADELEINE ...

Thomas Ricks, senior Pentagon correspondent for The Washington Post, talks about his new book, Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq, Ricks, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, takes a hard ...

Washington Post reporter Thomas Ricks discusses his book, Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq, and he is joined by singer-songwriter Josh Ritter who performs "Girl in the War." ...

The very title of this latest book on Iraq, whether by design or by chance, reveals author Thomas E. Ricks' political take on the Bush administration's international policy in this important ...

Thomas Ricks, senior Pentagon correspondent for The Washington Post, discusses this week's long-awaited progress report from Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker, the top two American ...

It was only a few short years ago when the war in Iraq was perceived as a lost cause and an unmitigated disaster. Tides of pessimism washed over our body politic, well reflected in books like Thomas ...

Cast of characters -- pt. 1. Containment -- 1. A bad ending -- 2. Containment and its discontents -- 3. This changes everything : the aftermath of 9/11 -- 4. The war of words -- 5. The run-up -- 6.

Ricks details numerous instances of abuse that extended beyond Abu Ghraib, writing that in some units it became “routine and acceptable to beat prisoners.” Fiasco is harsh in its assessment of such ...