H-Diplo | Robert Jervis International Security Studies Forum Review 170 Steve Coll. The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the CIA, and the Origins of America’s Invasion of Iraq. Penguin Press, 2024.

Steve Coll, who is the author of Ghost Wars and Directorate S, has once again provided readers with an engaging and well-researched book on US policy in the Middle East; this time on the factors that led to the 2003 US invasion of Iraq.[1] The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the CIA, and the Origins of America’s Invasion of Iraq…

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