Douglas J. Feith
Autor von War and Decision: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism
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Douglas J. Feith served as U.S. Under Secretary of Defense for Policy from 2001 to 2005. He is the Director of the Center for National Security Strategies at the Hudson Institute and a Belfer Center Adjunct Visiting Scholar at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. He lives near Washington, D.C., mehr anzeigen with his family. weniger anzeigen
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Feith is not necessarily defensive in his writing, but he is presenting HIS view and rationalizing them through his eyes. Clearly there was tension between the State Department and the Defense Department, and between CIA and Defense, and that reinforces the idea that the wars in Afghanistan, and especially Iraq, were not as well thought out and needed, nor necessarily based on the best information available. If Feith didn't use cherry-picked data in support of his views, he certainly used data which supported the position of the Administration, and especially the Dept of Defense. He maintains that the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq were well thought out, although admitting that plans could have been better and not everything worked out as hoped. Nonetheless, after several years, it's good to hear from one of the key men behind the scenes, and get an answer to the question "What Were They Thinking?"… (mehr)