Renowned War Correspondent Endorses Breaking Iraq

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JosephGalloway Comments
OnMarch 19, 2013, ten years to the day, a book about the poorly planned invasionof Iraq by coalition forces to dethrone Saddam, and the following year ofconfusion, disorder, and poor leadership wrought by the same poor planning,will be in bookstores nationally. Breaking Iraq, the Ten Mistakes That BrokeIraq  co-authored by retired U.S. ArmyColonel Ted Spain and retired FBI official Terry Turchie is drawing attention.
JosephGalloway, the renowned war correspondent and author knows much about war. Hehas written about it for nationally syndicated news organizations, and once inthe thick of battle in Vietnam carried wounded troopers to safety for which hewas awarded the Bronze Star for Valor by the U.S. Army, the only civilian sohonored. He read the advance review copy of Breaking Iraq with great interest.His comments:
“Atough Army Military Police commander, partnered with a former FBI agent, hasgiven us the straight skinny on the serial disasters that attended the 2003invasion of Iraq and the months immediately following:  Baghdad burning. Abu Ghraib torture cells. Aninsurgency we built ourselves. Col. Teddy Spain doesn't shy away from thetruth---from a Secretary of Defense who imposed his own personal and uninformedchoices on intricately balanced deployment schedules, to a civilian"American Czar" whose every decision led straight to bloody disaster,to an Army commander in way over his head--- BREAKING IRAQ tells it like it was.The lessons are here for the learning.”
Mr.Galloway’s perspective captures the essence of  Breaking Iraq:the Ten Mistakes that Broke Iraq. Lessons are to belearned and as Pulitzer Prize winner Tom Ricks says in the Foreword “…from itthe reader will learn much about what went wrong in Iraq.”Co-authorColonel (Retired) Ted Spain is a native of Wendell, North Carolina; He is aninductee into both the US Army Officer Candidate School Hall of Fame and the USArmy Military Police Regimental Hall of Fame. In the Army, he served in keyleadership positions, culminating as Commander of the 18th Military PoliceBrigade during the ground war and first year of Operation  Iraqi Freedom. He is currently the Directorof the Tactical Force Operations Division, at the Department of Energy’sSavannah River Site, a major storage site for special nuclear material. Heresides in Aiken, South Carolina.
Co-authorTerry D. Turchie is a former Deputy Assistant Director of   the Counterterrorism Division of the FBI.His leadership was the driving forces behind the capture of the two mostelusive and solitary domestic terrorists in U.S. history. He is a recipient ofthe FBI Director’s Award as well as the Attorney General’s Award forDistinguished Service. He resides in Danville, California.
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BreakingIraq: the Ten Mistakes that Broke Iraq will be published by History PublishingCompany and will be in bookstores nationally on March 19.