The Commanders

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During the first two years of the Bush administration, the United States military and its leaders dominated the world's attention to a degree not seen since the Vietnam War. Now, using his unmatched investigative skills, Bob Woodward tells the behind-the-scenes story of how President Bush and his military high command made their decisions. The Commanders is an extraordinary work of contemporary history, based on more than two years of exhaustive reporting on the inner workings of the Bush administration. A few months after Bush took office in early 1989, Congressman Dick Cheney was called to the White House the day Bush's first nominee for Secretary of Defense was rejected by the Senate. Within 24 hours, Cheney was standing by Bush's side as the new nominee. The 48-year-old Cheney, who had never served in the military, was confirmed within one week. Five months later, General Colin Powell was summoned out of a routine Army commanders' meeting to Cheney's Pentagon office. Within 72... Tovább

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During the first two years of the Bush administration, the United States military and its leaders dominated the world's attention to a degree not seen since the Vietnam War. Now, using his unmatched investigative skills, Bob Woodward tells the behind-the-scenes story of how President Bush and his military high command made their decisions. The Commanders is an extraordinary work of contemporary history, based on more than two years of exhaustive reporting on the inner workings of the Bush administration. A few months after Bush took office in early 1989, Congressman Dick Cheney was called to the White House the day Bush's first nominee for Secretary of Defense was rejected by the Senate. Within 24 hours, Cheney was standing by Bush's side as the new nominee. The 48-year-old Cheney, who had never served in the military, was confirmed within one week. Five months later, General Colin Powell was summoned out of a routine Army commanders' meeting to Cheney's Pentagon office. Within 72 hours, Powell was standing between Bush and Cheney at the White House as his appointment as the new Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff was announced. Over the next 18 months, Bush, Cheney, Powell and two other top Bush advisers, Secretary of State James A. Baker III and National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft, would use the military in Panama and the Persian Gulf as the instrument of a new foreign policy. In this account, we see the top leadership as never before, wrestling with the great questions of military and foreign policy in the closed meeting rooms and private offices of the Pentagon and the White House. This compelling group portrait takes us back to the beginning of the Bush administration, and through two years of conversations and policy choices that twice led the United States to war. The Commanders is about the decision-makers. Their relationships with one another and their personal perspectives are chronicled in unprecedented detail. This is the human story behind the momentous choices that are defining a new era in international relations dominated by American military might. Vissza