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Real change, real hope.(books, arts & manners)(Baghdad at Sunrise: A Brigade Commander's War in Iraq)(Book review)
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Baghdad at Sunrise: A Brigade Commander's War in Iraq, by Peter R. Mansoor (Yale, 416 pp., $28)
ON one level, this is a wartime diary written by a literate brigade commander explaining how to lead 3,500 soldiers in the face of sudden, episodic violence. The reader will be exhausted following Col. Peter Mansoor through a year of 15-hour days, where his attention was divided between wartime operations and political interactions with Iraqis. At another level, this is a book that commanders should study, asking themselves: What would I have done if I had believed the overarching strategy was wrong? Throughout the book, Mansoor (now ...
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