Index

abandonment thesis 170, 183–6
Adams, Colin 18
adjustment failure, among states 212
aftermath phase 107–15
Ajami, Fouad xiv, 155–6, 220
Albright, Madeleine 32, 126
alternative (to Blair’s) address 224–6
Amman, Kofi 59
amoral realism 161
Anderson, Donald 68
Anglo-American relationship 1, 2, 4, 6–8, 20–1, 47, 132–51, 169
anti-Islamic motivation 15–16
anti-terrorism viii
appeasement 104
Arab Spring 155, 157–8, 163, 169
Armitage, Richard 38, 106
Ashdown, Lord Paddy 108–9
Assad, Bashar al- 197–8, 201
Attlee, Clement 135
axis of evil speech 30, 37
bad faith tradition 16
bandwagoning 132–8, 211
Beinart, Peter 125
Berman, Paul xiv, 83, 125
Betts, Richard 97
Biddle, Stephen 215
Binnendijk, Hans 40
bioterrorism 101
Bird, Tim 151
Black, Cofer 106
Black Hawk Down 26
Blair doctrine 77, 86, 89
Blair’s War see One Man’s War
Blair, Tony ix, xi, 1–2, 6–14, 15, 19, 22, 24, 40–64, 69, 73, 77, 80–1, 83–9, 95–6, 99–101, 127–8, 133–4, 138, 141, 144, 146, 164, 167, 179, 184, 197, 198, 202, 207, 208–9, 215, 220
televised address 222–3
Blix, Hans 12, 66–7, 189–90
blood price 20, 142
and bandwagoning 132–8
fallacy of 2
Bobbitt, Philip 92
Bolton, John 149
Bowyer, Tom 14
Boyce, Admiral Sir Michael 52, 54, 60
The Breaking of Nations 92–4
Bremer, Paul L. III 107, 112–13, 127
Briefing Paper to the Parliamentary Labour Party 53
Britain
in Afghanistan 68, 70
financial costs to 176–7
intelligence dossiers 62
public opinion xv–xvi, 3, 61–70
road to war 25, 29–30, 40–61
role in war viii
taming US response 138–45
troop deployment Korean War 135
in UN Security Council 135
and US interventions 137
war casualties 178–9 see also Blair
Brooke, Rupert 158
Brown, Gordon 9, 11–12
Burridge, Air Chief Marshall Sir Brian 49
Bush Doctrine 11, 31–2, 33, 77, 78, 86, 120, 124, 162
Bush, George H.W. 79
Bush, George W. 6–8, 11, 16, 19, 24, 29, 30, 33–4, 37, 43, 48–50, 71, 85–6, 122–5, 128, 137, 140, 147–8, 156, 184, 215
Butler Inquiry 40–1, 63
Byman, Daniel 193–4
Byzantine ideal-type 76, 92
cabinet committee system 72
Cabinet Office 41, 53, 58, 89
Cameron, David 73
Campbell, Alastair 47, 50, 52, 138
Campbell, Menzies 86
Camp Bucca 181
Carr, E.H. 207
The Case for Democracy 81, 123
CBRN (nuclear proliferation) 54
CBW (chemical and biological weapons) 166
CENTCOM 143
Chalabi, Ahmad 110–12, 127, 128, 171
chapter content summary 19–22
Cheney, Dick 48, 58, 71, 122–5
Chicago doctrine/speech 46–7, 49, 89, 96, 100, 162, 202, 207
Chilcot (Iraq) Inquiry x, xiv–xv, 4, 5–6, 8, 9, 40, 55, 63, 72–4, 85, 96, 109, 153–4, 156, 176, 197, 210
Chirac, Jacques 17, 64, 149
choosing war 214–15
Churchill, Winston 134, 136, 146, 208, 210
Clark, Wesley 126
classical realism 161, 162
Clinton, Bill 6–7, 33, 79, 126
Clinton, Hillary 126
Coalition Provisional Authority 107
Coates, David A. 8
Cockburn, Patrick 113
Cohen, Eliot 79–80
COIN (counter-insurgency) 214
conditions concept 62
containment concept 78–80
Cook, Robin 6, 80, 195
cooperative problem-solving 129
Cooper, Robert 92–4
Corbyn, Jeremy 197, 202
Cordesman, Anthony 194–5
The Costs of War 112
counterproliferation 36, 189
CPA (Coalition Provisional Authority) 147
Crawford meeting 42, 47, 48–9, 53, 87, 142
Cross, Major General Tim 108
Dannatt, General Sir Richard 143
Dawa Party 112
Dearlove, Sir Richard 11, 37, 49, 50, 132
De-Ba’athification 107–8, 113, 127, 147, 186
deception 74
Declaration of Principles 137
Defence Intelligence Service 97
Defence Planning Guidance 125
Defence White Papers 142, 147
Delivering Security in a Changing World 142
Delta of Terrorism 125, 220
democracy, in Iraq 81
democratic accountability, lack of 29–30
deterrence
by doubt 27
and diplomacy 215–19
Deudney, Dan 20, 116, 117, 119, 120–1, 122, 126–7, 129–30
Deutcher, Isaac 82
diplomacy, and deterrence 215–19
disarmament policy 61
dishonesty/deceit 4–5
dogmatism 39, 40
Douri, Izzat al- 192
Downing Street Memo leak 50
Duelfer Commission/Report 166, 171
Duncan Smith, Iain 99–100
EFPs (explosively formed penetrators) 58
Eisenhower, Dwight 136
El Baradei, Dr. Mohamed 12, 189–90
Ellison, James 73
Euston Manifesto x–xi
Fallon, Sir Michael 108, 109
false intelligence 11–12
falsification pr1nciple 3
FCO (Foreign and Commonwealth Office) 41, 50, 52, 58, 59, 89, 134, 141, 145
Feith, Douglas 149
First Armoured Division 25
first strikes vii
flaws of expectation 146–51
Foreign Affairs Select Committee 68, 213
45 Commando deployment 146
Fourth International 83
Franks, General Tommy 38, 49
Freedman, Sir Lawrence 89
French opposition 149–50
Frum, David 38, 157, 168, 183
geopolitical costs, of war 180
Geras, Norman xiv
Gitlin, Todd 209
Gladstone, William 82, 83–4
globalization, and liberal world order 100
Global War on Terror viii
Gombert, David 40
good faith account 18–19
Gordian Knot approach 21–2, 74, 206
Greenstock, Sir Jeremy 13, 50, 108, 109–12, 140
Gulf War (1991) 26, 56, 79, 80, 192, 195
Hague, Lord William 13, 64–5, 100
Hamad, King 29
Harries, Owen 211
Heath, Edward 137
hegemonic realists 122
HEU (highly enriched uranium) 189, 190
hindsight bias 163
History of the English Speaking Peoples 146
Hitchens, Christopher xiv
Holbrooke, Richard 126
Hollis, Rosemary 6
Hoon, Geoff 59, 90–1, 142
Howard, John 164
Hughes, Karen 123
Hurd, Douglas 135
Hymans, Jacques 195
IDA (Institute of Defence Analyses) 179
idealism, and realism 207–13
ideas behind war 2
ideological roots, and intervention 5
Ignatieff, Michael 125
Ikenberry, G. John 20, 116, 117, 119, 120–1, 122, 125, 126–7, 129–30
illegality fixations 4
inadvertent escalation explanation 8
incompetence dodge 13, 107
insecurity, sources of 44
institutional support 10
international life, tragedy of 219–21
interpretations of the war 5–19
intolerable regimes 81
invasion
alternative strategies 153, 154, 187–97
case against 152, 153, 170–87
case for 164–70, 197–204
evaluation standards of decision to 153–63
Iran
potential hostility 60
regional patronage potential 57–8
supply of weapons to insurgents 58
Iraq
abandonment thesis 170, 183–6
bureaucratic purges, post-war 88, 115
casualty figures 171–2
child mortality 166–7, 168, 172–3
coups in 27
De-Ba’athification 107–8, 113, 127, 147, 186
GDP per capita 168
and inspection bodies 27
internal dissent 28–9
mas regime 215
military/intelligence disbanding 107–8
political aftermath 60, 107–15
post-war reconstruction 60, 107–15, 167, 171, 183–6
proliferation potential 56
refugees 172
road to war 24, 25–30
torture 173–6
Iraqi National Congress 171
Iraq Inquiry see Chilcot Inquiry
Iraq Liberation Act (1998) 31
Iraq Options Papers 37, 53, 58
Iraq Survey Group 57, 189
Islamic State 111, 155, 168, 217
Israel-Palestine Road Map 148
Jaafari, Ibrahim al- 112
Jabouri, Kadom al- 221
Jackson, Henry ’Scoop’ 126
JAM (Jaysh al-Mahdi) ix
Jervis, Robert 72–3
JIC (Joint Intelligence Committee) 41, 46, 50, 53, 56, 63, 97–8, 187, 191, 203
jihadi groups 183
Johnson, Alan 82
Johnson, Lyndon 35, 40, 126, 136
Jones, Brian 14
Jones, Owen 14
just war theory 159–60, 162
Kagan, Robert 15
Kahn, A.Q. 165
Kaufman, Robert 187, 195
Keightley, General Sir Charles 136
Kelley, Robert 56
Kennan, George 212
Kennedy, Charles 86
Kennedy, John F. 126
Kerry, John 126
Kilfoyle, Peter 152
Kissinger, Henry 122, 125, 136–7, 206
Krauthammer, Charles 33, 168
Krieger, Joel 8
Kurdish genocide 165
Kurdish secession 58
Lake, Anthony 95, 205
law of the instrument 36
legalist tradition 14–16
Lemann, Nicholas 38
liberal conscience, and regime change 82–94
liberal internationalist 126
liberalism 20, 83, 118–27, 129
liberal managerialism, and Phase IV fallacy 107–15
Libya
intervention in xi, 155, 157, 182, 213
nuclear programme 200–1
limitation strategy 75
limited war, and regime change 75–82
Lin, Bonny 40
Lippmann, Walter 212
Logevall, Frederik 39
Love Actually 6
Luttwak, Edward N. 76
McCain, John 184
McEwan, Ian xii
Mackay, Andrew 68–9
McLellan, Scott 123
Macmillan, Harold 135
McTernan, John 153, 197–204
majority government, realities of 81–2
Makiya, Kanan 83, 125, 164, 173
Maliki, Nouri al- 184–5
managerialist accounts 13–14
Manning, David 7, 37, 43, 45, 48, 49, 54–5, 61, 85, 97, 98, 143
Maples, John 69
market democracy, entry to 110
market state principle 92
Marshall, Alex 151
Mearsheimer, John 116
MEPP (Middle East Peace Process) 44
Meyer, Sir Christopher 6, 37, 48, 139, 147
Middle East Peace Process 55, 95, 128
Milburn, Alan 82
Miliband, David 107
military deterrence 75–6
military occupation, success rate of 102–3
Mitchell, Andrew 108
modernization theory 216
MOD (Ministry of Defence) 41, 50, 52, 60, 72, 89, 141, 145, 190
Morgan, Sally 50
Morgenthau, Hans 160, 212
multilateralism 202
Murdoch, Rupert 10–11, 64, 104
muscular diplomacy 91
Myers, Stephen 82
national interest foreign policy 82, 162
National Security Strategy 33, 36, 124
NATO 15, 90, 140, 142, 150
Article V 140
neoconservatism 120
newness doctrine 105
The News of the World 63
NIE (CIA National Intelligence Estimate) 57
9/11 attacks, consequences of 24, 30, 31, 33, 36, 43–4, 51, 71, 84, 138–40, 165, 188, 220
Nixon, Richard 136–7
North Korea scenario 170
Not in My Name slogan xi
nuclear terrorism 101
nuclear transfer 218
Obama, Barack 112, 126, 137, 146, 148, 156, 169, 184
Oborne, Peter xiii, 15
oil hypothesis 17–18
O’Neill, Brendan xii
One Man’s War account 6, 8–14
one per cent doctrine 123
Operation Desert Fox 45
Operation Iraqi Freedom 29, 116, 153
Operation Telic vii–xi, 153, 199
Osborne, George 104–5, 197
Osirak dilemma 195–6
Owen, Wilfed 158
parliamentary authorization 65–6, 70, 71
Parliamentary Select Committee on Foreign Affairs 208
Parris, Matthew 11
passivity allegation 111
path dependency 25
Pax Americana 33, 87, 106
Perle, Richard 105–6, 157
Petraeus, General David 146, 156, 214
The Petraeus revolution 149
Phase II, in War on terror 35, 45, 47–8
Phase IV fallacy, and liberal managerialism 107–15
Pigott, General Tony 52
policy duality, United States 146–51
policy momentum 8
political insanity 94
Pollack, Kenneth 56–7, 126, 164
poodle explanation 6–8, 19, 139
Popper, Karl 2–3
post-war reconstruction 60, 107–15, 167, 171
Powell, Colin x, 42, 48, 49, 60, 96, 127–8, 142, 158
Powell, Jonathan 50, 54–5, 89–90, 97, 133, 138
power, and morality 207
Power, Samantha 126
precautionary principle 164, 205
pre-emption 34, 77
premium on haste 64
pre-modern chaos 93
presentation strategy 61
preventive wars 34–5, 77
primacy realism 117
Project for a New American Century 79
prudential approach 153, 160, 161, 162, 214
prudent war avoidance 213–15
public opinion xv–xvi, 3, 61–70
punitive retaliation doctrine 98
Putin, Vladimir 29, 129, 202
Quinlan, Sir Michael 196
Randall, John 67
Rangwala, Glen 14
rationality 161
RCC (Revolutionary Command Council) 192
Reagan, Ronald 78, 137, 148
realism 20, 21–2, 118–22, 129, 160–1, 206–22
red-teaming 72
regime change 2, 20–1, 36, 41, 45, 52, 54, 58–61, 65, 164, 181, 212
effectiveness of war 102–15
ideological roots of 72–131
and liberal conscience 82–94
and liberal war 116–30
and limited war 75–82
power inflation 94–102
revolutionary movement 82–94
threat inflation 94–102
regime collapse 60
regime type 81, 120, 124, 211
Reid, John 82
Remnick, David 125
Report of the Iraq Enquiry 168
revolutionary movement, and regime change 82–94
Rice, Condoleezza 7, 38, 48, 49, 96, 149
Rice, Susan 126
Roberts, Andrew 146, 171, 208–9
Robertson, Lord George 90–1, 140
Robinson, Piers 16
Rogers, Paul 16
rogue states/regimes 2, 37, 44, 74, 77, 94–100, 103, 130, 217
rollback concept 78–9, 102
Roosevelt, Franklin D. 134, 136
Ross, Carne 188
Royal Prerogative 65
Rumsfeld, Donald 36, 38, 39, 52, 62, 122–5, 149
Rycroft, Matthew 24, 62, 64, 173
Saddam Hussein 26–9, 44–5, 61, 128–9, 139, 165–7, 169, 180, 188, 192–3, 199–200, 215, 218
Sadr, Muqtada al- 114
Sands, Phillippe 14
Saturday xii
Saudi Peace Initiative 57
Scarlett, John 50
Schachtman, Max 83
Schelling, Thomas 64
Schwartz, Stephen 83
scientific realism 161
SDR (Strategic Defence Review) 90–2
Second Infitada 57
security, public desire for 81–2
Sedgefield Speech 96
self-harm, among states 212
Senor, Dan 112–13
Shapiro, Jacob 215
Sharansky, Natan 81, 123
Shia restraint 59
The Shield of Achilles 92
SIS (Secret Intelligence Service) 41, 50, 52, 141
Sky, Emma 39
Slaughter, Anne-Marie 116, 125, 126
smart sanctions 188
social revolutionary ferocity 113
Solely, Clive 68–9
Soviet Union, collapse of 32
special relationship see Anglo-American relationship
Stability Operations in Iraq: An Analysis from the Land Perspective 147
Steele, Jonathan 59
Straw, Jack x, 29, 43, 48, 49, 50, 60–1, 102, 142, 188, 208
Suez crisis 136, 141
surge strategy 214
surplus of power 212
Symons, Liz 18
Syria
civil war 111, 155, 163
Islamic rebellion in xi
potential hostility 60
Syria scenario 170
Tanner, Colonel J.K. 147
Tebbit, Kevin 143–4
Tenet, George 38
Terror and Consent 92
Thatcher, Margaret 106–7
The Threatening Storm 126
threat inflation 101
threat perception 23
threat tolerance 78
toughened containment 53
Trachtenberg, Marc 2–3
Trimble, David 68, 100
Trotskyite influence 82–3
Truman, Harry 35
Trump, Donald 148
trust in the state xiii
Turnbull, Andrew 41
unintended consequences 58
United Nations
Security Council 1–2, 8, 14, 40, 61, 65, 135, 144
Resolution 1409 188
Resolution 1441 47, 55, 67, 157
United States
in Afghanistan 31, 35, 68, 70
assassination attempts on Saddam 27–8, 80
Britain’s relationship with see Anglo-American relationship
financial costs to 176–7
neoconservatism 120
policy duality 146–51
policy shift 30–1
rise to Global Power 32
road to war 24, 29–40
State of the Union addresses 30, 31
tariffs on UK steel 147
troop commitment numbers 112
unipolarity in war 32–4, 118 see also Bush
UNMOVIC (UN Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission) report 12, 66–7
Vietnam, deliberation over 39–40
Villepin, Dominic de 149
violence interdependence 130
virtue, running amok 206–22
virtue/vice interpretation 15–19
visionary world-making 30
Wall, Sir Stephen 63
Waltz, Kenneth 23
The War Against Terrorism: The Second Phase 16
warlike idealism 2
warlike liberalism 86–7
Watkins, Peter 145
Webb, Simon 52
Webster, Daniel 34
Weekly Standard 10–11
Wieseltier, Leon 125, 126
Wilkerson, Lawrence B. 30
Williams, Dr. Michael 105
Wilson, Harold 136, 145
Wilsonianism 120, 126
Wilson, Sir Richard 50
Wilson, Woodrow 120, 129
WMD (Weapons of Mass Destruction) viii, 8, 11–12, 33, 36, 44, 45–6, 49, 50–4, 59, 61, 63–4, 67, 70, 72–3, 80, 90, 93, 95–102, 103, 110, 116, 119, 122, 128, 130–1, 145, 166–7, 171, 178, 181, 187, 189–96, 200, 205, 208–9, 210, 215, 219
Wolfowitz, Paul 36, 52, 122–5, 149, 184
worst-case scenarios 60
Worthington, Tony 69