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Based on unprecedented real-time access to the military’s entire chain of command, The Gamble is the definitive account of the insurgency within the US military that led to a radical shift in America’s strategy in Iraq – and the bloody implementation of that strategy on the ground.

In his international bestseller Fiasco, Thomas E. Ricks gave us the definitive reckoning with what went so wrong in Iraq. The story The Gamble tells is how, when the war was at its darkest hour, a group of dissident junior commanders and their civilian allies did an end run around their superiors in the military establishment and seized control of the war. The result was \