2011 Audie Award Finalist for non-fiction

In Obama’s Wars, Bob Woodward provides the most intimate and sweeping portrait yet of the youthful chief executive as commander in key. Drawing on internal memos, classified files, meeting notes and hundreds of hours of interviews with most of the crucial players, like the chief executive, Woodward tells the within tale of Obama producing the critical decisions around the Afghanistan War, the secret advertising campaign in Pakistan and the worldwide fight against terrorism.

about Obama’s Wars

At the core of Obama’s Wars is the unsettled division between the civilian leadership in the White House and america military as the president is thwarted in his efforts to craft an leave plan for the Afghanistan War.

“So what’s my option?” the chief executive asked his battle cabinet, searching for alternatives to the Afghanistan commander’s request for 40,000 even more troops in late 2009. “You possess essentially given me one choice…It’s undesirable.”

“Well,” Secretary of Protection Robert Gates finally said, “Mr. President, I believe we owe you that option.”

It under no circumstances came. An untamed Vice President Joe Biden pushes relentlessly to limit the armed forces mission and steer clear of another Vietnam. The vice president frantically sent half a dozen handwritten memos by secure fax to Obama within the eve of the final troop decision.

President Obama’s purchasing a surge of 30,000 soldiers and pledging to start withdrawing U.S. causes by July 2011 did not end the skirmishing.

General David Petraeus, the brand new Afghanistan commander, thinks period can be put into the clock if he shows progress. “I don’t think you win this war,” Petraeus stated privately. “This is the kind of battle we’re set for the others of our lives and most likely our kids’ lives.”

Hovering over this controversy is the possibility of another terrorist assault in the United States. The White Home led a magic formula exercise showing how unprepared the government is if terrorists set off a nuclear bomb in an American city-which Obama informed Woodward is at the top from the list of what he worries about on a regular basis.

Verbatim quotations from secret debates and White colored House strategy sessions-and firsthand accounts from the thoughts and problems of the president, his battle council and his generals-reveal a federal government in conflict, often consumed with nasty infighting and fundamental disputes.

Woodward has discovered the way the Obama White House really works, showing that even more tough decisions lay forward for the cerebral and engaged president.

Obama’s Wars supplies the reader a sensational, you-are-there account from the president, his White House aides, military leaders, diplomats and intelligence chiefs in this time of turmoil and danger.