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Ricks, and in fiasco, ricks combines these astonishing ontherecord military accounts with his own extraordinary ontheground reportage. Thomas ricks is the pentagon correspondent for the washington post would that canadian media allowed reporters to specialize in military affairs to develop similar expertise. General david petraeus and the american military adventure in iraq, 20062008 by pulitzer prizewinning journalist thomas e. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading fiasco. Ricks, senior pentagon correspondent for the washington post.

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