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James Fallows Blind Into Baghdad: America's War in Iraq
Vintage 2006 0307277968 / 9780307277961 Paperback Very Good
"'() In the autumn of 2002, Atlantic Monthly national correspondent James Fallows wrote an article predicting many of the problems America would face if it invaded Iraq. After events confirmed many of his predictions, Fallows went on to write some of the most acclaimed, award-winning journalism on the planning and execution of the war, much of which has been assigned as required reading within the U.S. military. In Blind Into Baghdad, Fallows takes us from the planning of the war through the struggles of reconstruction. With unparalleled access and incisive analysis, he shows us how many of the difficulties were anticipated by experts whom the administration ignored. Fallows examines how the war in Iraq undercut the larger ''war on terror'' and why Iraq still had no army two years after the invasion. In a sobering conclusion, he interviews soldiers, spies, and diplomats to imagine how a war in Iran might play out. This is an important and essential book to understand where and how t'''' ID: mon0000076641"
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"James M. Fallows, James Fallows" Free Flight: From Airline Hell to a New Age of Travel
PublicAffairs 2001 1586480405 / 9781586480400 Hardcover New
"'Hardcover, Very Good, clean, tight, unmarked, first edition, 6 1/2'' x 9 1/2'', b&w illustrations, indexed, 254 pages. .. The airline system has reached a nightmarish state, due to a combination of economics and technology. As the average cost of a flight has come down in the last twenty years, the airlines have survived by filling all the seats and funneling traffic through a hub-and-spoke routing system. Virtually all of the technological innovation in airplanes in the last thirty years has been devoted to moving passengers more cheaply, and more safely, between major hubs. Each generation of new planes has been more reliable, and has carried more passengers on less fuel, than before. But what was left out of this equation was, of course, the comfort, convenience, and flexibility of the average traveler. As James Fallows explains, a technological answer to this logjam is under way at the moment, and Free Flight features the stories of three groups who are inventing and building the ...'' ID: mon0000007104"
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