{"id":3176,"date":"2009-08-10T03:41:08","date_gmt":"2009-08-10T03:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3176"},"modified":"2009-08-10T03:41:08","modified_gmt":"2009-08-10T03:41:08","slug":"tom-ricks-at-pritzker-military-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3176","title":{"rendered":"Tom Ricks at Pritzker Military Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"329\" src=\"http:\/\/thereisnoplan.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/03\/the_gamble.jpg\" height=\"500\" \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Out of sheer laziness and a nod to public service, I will re-post this notice from <strong>Lexington Green<\/strong> in its entirety:<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"http:\/\/chicagoboyz.net\/archives\/8569.html\" title=\"Permanent Link to Early Notice: Thomas E. Ricks at the Pritzker Military Library on September 10, 2009.\">Early Notice: Thomas E. Ricks at the Pritzker Military Library on September 10, 2009.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thomas_E._Ricks_(journalist)\"><strong>Thomas E. Ricks<\/strong><\/a><strong> will be in Chicago at the <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pritzkermilitarylibrary.org\/\"><strong>Pritzker Military Library<\/strong><\/a><strong> to discuss this most recent book <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gamble-Petraeus-American-Adventure-2006-2008\/dp\/1594201978\"><strong>The Gamble: <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" width=\"260\" src=\"http:\/\/www.charlierose.com\/images_toplevel\/content\/10\/1008\/segment_10080_460x345.jpg\" height=\"195\" \/>General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008<\/strong><\/a><strong>. The event will be free and open to the public. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ricks is the author of the widely-acclaimed book <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Fiasco-American-Military-Adventure-Iraq\/dp\/159420103X\"><strong>Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq<\/strong><\/a><strong>, e.g. <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlisle.army.mil\/USAWC\/Parameters\/07spring\/spr07rev.htm\"><strong>this review<\/strong><\/a><strong>. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ricks is a senior fellow at the <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnas.org\/node\/650\"><strong>Center for a New American Security.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ricks has a blog, <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ricks.foreignpolicy.com\/\"><strong>The Best Defense<\/strong><\/a><strong>. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I hope to read The Gamble before the date, and I plan to attend the event. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I hope the weather is better than the downpour on <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/chicagoboyz.net\/archives\/7503.html\"><strong>the night that David Kilcullen<\/strong><\/a><strong> spoke at the PML. <\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Barring any unforseen, work-related, commitments, I will be attending this event\u00a0and will blog about it. Perhaps some live\u00a0twittering as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Out of sheer laziness and a nod to public service, I will re-post this notice from Lexington Green in its entirety: Early Notice: Thomas E. Ricks at the Pritzker Military Library on September 10, 2009. Thomas E. Ricks will be in Chicago at the Pritzker Military Library to discuss this most recent book The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[420,321,133,20,126,87,199,336,45,499,49,139,39,367,340,270,372,187,131,11,10,530,211,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-blogosphere","category-book","category-coin","category-counterinsurgency","category-foreign-policy","category-insurgency","category-intellectuals","category-iraq","category-islamic-world","category-lexington-green","category-media","category-military","category-military-history","category-military-reform","category-national-security","category-non-state-actors","category-politics","category-security","category-state-building","category-state-failure","category-strategy-and-war","category-terrorism","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}