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Thomas E. Ricks
12+ albums
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Thomas E. Ricks (born 1955 in Beverly, Massachusetts) writes on defense topics. He is a Pulitzer Prize winning former reporter for the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post. He writes a blog at ForeignPolicy.com, and is a member of a defense policy think tank. He lectures widely to the military and is a member of Harvard University's Senior Advisory Council on the Project on U.S. Civil-Military Relations. He has reported on military activities in Somalia, Haiti, Korea, Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Kuwait, Turkey, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Ricks is author of the bestselling Fiasco: The American Military Adventure In Iraq, it sequel The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008, Making the Corps, and the novel A Soldier's Duty. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
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Fiasco
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Fiasco: the American Military Adventure In Iraq (Abridged Nonfiction)
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Fiasco 02
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The Gamble
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The Generals
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First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country
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The Generals American Military Command from World War II to Today (Unabridged)
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Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq
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What’s in it for me? See ancient Greece and Rome through the eyes of America’s founding fathers.
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Washington sought to become a virtuous statesman and military general.
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During the Revolutionary War, Washington embodied both Fabius and Cincinnatus.
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John Adams viewed himself as an American Cicero.