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Thomas E. Ricks

Thomas E. Ricks

Thomas E. Ricks

Thomas E. Ricks is The Washington Post's senior Pentagon correspondent. A member of two Pulitzer Prize-winning teams for national reporting, he has reported on U.S. military activities in Somalia, Haiti, Korea, Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Kuwait, Turkey, Afghanistan, and Iraq. He is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq and A Soldier's Duty.

Excerpt:
Prologue from Making the Corps
Jul 01, 2009
Making the Corps will be released on July 31, 2007 in Trade Paperback
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Making the Corps is now available in Trade Paperback
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Making the Corps will be released on October 02, 1998 in Trade Paperback
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Making the Corps is now available in Trade Paperback
Oct 02, 1998
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Tacoma News Tribune, March 15, 2012
...book Ive read on the last part of the American involvement of the war.Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Thomas E. Ricks covered the U.S. military for The Washington Post from 2000 through 2008. He wrote Fiasco, about the Iran War, and writes The...
New York Times, November 3, 2011
...produced a remarkable body of contemporary history from a large group of talented journalists and writers Jane Mayer, Thomas E. Ricks, James Risen, Ron Suskind, Susan Faludi, Seymour M. Hersh, James Mann and many others. But in the last year, several...
Herald Journal, March 1, 2012
...in the church and why he finally walked away. Ricks is no stranger to Mormon culture. His great-great-grandfather, Thomas E. Ricks, founded church-owned Ricks College in Rexburg — a city named after the German spelling of the surname. “I had a great...
Lucianne.com, February 16, 2012
...by "StormCnter" and Most Active Articles (last 24 hours) Most Recent Articles posted by "StormCnter" Foreign Policy, by Thomas E. Ricks Original Article Posted By: StormCnter- 2/16/2012 3:16:31 PM Post Reply Best Defense bureau for Celtic secessionism-...
KIKO'S HOUSE, September 21, 2011
...first world country. LINK.'THE GAMBLE: GENERAL DAVID PETRAEUS AND THE AMERICAN MILITARY ADVENTURE IN IRAQ, 2006-2008 (6/8/09) Thomas Ricks tells the gripping story of how the U.S. was able to step back from the precipice in Iraq because of the Surge, a...
American Power, September 17, 2011
...that Courtney Messerschmidt is merely the front-woman with a fake name for a collective of writers at GSGF.Thomas Ricks, who invested a lot in Courtney, wasn't too bothered by the outing: "pHoNy GrEaT sAtAn'S gIrLfRiEnD." Neither was Crispin Burke at...
Outside the Beltway, July 16, 2011
...Thomas Ricks makes the case for a provocative hypothesis that is sure to get some people upset: As I studied the Vietnam war over the last 14 months, I began to...
Booman Tribune, June 22, 2011
...National Security Team ( none / 0 )The first I had really heard of this Patreus guy was in Thomas Ricks' book "Fiasco" where he was introduced as the guy who really understood, from his studies of the failures of Vietnam, how to handle an...
KIKO'S HOUSE, May 31, 2011
...first world country. LINK . 'THE GAMBLE: GENERAL DAVID PETRAEUS AND THE AMERICAN MILITARY ADVENTURE IN IRAQ, 2006-2008 (6/8/09) Thomas Ricks tells the gripping story of how the U.S. was able to step back from the precipice in Iraq because of the Surge, a...