Blunder: Britain's War in Iraq

by Patrick Porter

Book Overview

Why did Britain go to war in Iraq in 2003? Existing accounts stress dodgy dossiers, intelligence failures, and the flaws of individual leaders. Deploying the large number of primary documents now available, this book puts ideas at the centre of the story. As the book argues, Britain's war in Iraq was caused by bad ideas that were dogmatically held and widely accepted. Three ideas in particular formed the war's intellectual foundations: the notion...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198807961
• ISBN13: 9780198807964
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"