OFFENSE AND DEFENSE.(Iraq war)

Jon Lee Anderson reports from Baghdad

Jeffrey Goldberg reports from Kurdistan

Isabel Hilton's report from Jordan

Slide show: Scenes from Jordan

As the ground campaign against Saddam Hussein faltered last week, with attenuated supply lines and a lack of immediate reinforcements, there was anger in the Pentagon. Several senior war planners complained to me in interviews that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and his inner circle of civilian advisers, who had been chiefly responsible for persuading President Bush to lead the country into war, had insisted on micromanaging the war's operational details. Rumsfeld's team took over crucial ...