Bush at War
OCLC 52726634 | | |
| Followed by | Plan of Attack | |
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Bush at War is a 2002 book by War in Afghanistan.
Much of the book recounts events in meetings of the United States National Security Council (NSC), with the major players in the story, including the President, Dick Cheney, Colin Powell, George Tenet and Condoleezza Rice, developed from NSC meeting notes and Woodward's own interviews with administration officials.
Woodward especially focuses on the administration's decision to go to war in Afghanistan and its strategic and tactical decisions. As one of the first detailed accounts of these decisions, prior to inside accounts like
CIA chief of the Bin Laden station, in his book Imperial Hubris
for offering a platform for government leaks, which he deemed harmful to national security: "After reading Mr. Woodward's Bush at War, it seems to me that the U.S. officials who either approved or participated in passing the information—in documents and via interviews—that is the heart of Mr. Woodward's book, gave an untold measure of aid and comfort to the enemy."
External links
- The Times discussion of the book.