Annual Champagne Brunch for Bronze Partners

A Look Back at the Surge in Iraq and a Look Ahead to the War in Afghanistan

April 19, 2009 / Philadelphia

Thomas E. Ricks

Thomas E. Ricks is a Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security. He also writes an online blog for ForeignPolicy.com, “The Best Defense,” is a contributing editor for Foreign Policy, and serves as a special military correspondent for the Washington Post; he previously covered the same beat at the Wall Street Journal. He was part of a Wall Street Journal team that won the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting in 2000 for a series on how the U.S. military might meet the demands of the 21st century and a Washington Post team that won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for reporting about the U.S. counterterrorism offensive. His books include Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq (Penguin, 2006) and The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008 (Penguin, Feb. 2009), complimentary copies of which will be given out at the Brunch.

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