Plan of Strike is the definitive accounts of how and why Chief executive George W. Bush, his war council, and allies launched a preemptive assault to topple Saddam Hussein and occupy Iraq. Bob Woodward’s most recent landmark account of Washington decision producing provides an unique, authoritative narrative of behind-the-scenes maneuvering, analyzing the causes and consequences of the most controversial battle since Vietnam.

Predicated on interviews with 75 key participants and more than three-and-a fifty percent hours of about Plan of Attack distinctive interviews with Chief executive Bush, Program of Attack is definitely part presidential history charting the decisions made during 16 important months; part armed forces history; and part a harrowing spy story as the CIA dispatches a covert paramilitary group into northern Iraq six months before the start of the war.

What emerges are astonishingly romantic portraits: President Bush in war cabinet meetings and in private conversation; Dick Cheney, the concentrated and driven vice president; Colin Powell, the conflicted and cautious secretary of state; Donald Rumsfeld, the controlling battle technocrat; George Tenet, the activist CIA director; Tommy Franks, the profane and challenging general; Condoleezza Grain, the ever-present referee and nationwide security adviser; Karl Rove, the hands-on political strategist; other crucial members of the White colored House personnel and congressional command; and foreign leaders ranging from British Primary Minister Blair to Russian Leader Putin.

Plan of Strike provides new details on the cleverness assessments of Iraq’s alleged weaponry of mass destruction and the look for the war’s aftermath.