TY - BOOK AU - METZ,Steven TI - Decisionmaking in operation Iraqi freedom: the strategic shift of 2007 SN - 1584874414 (pbk.) CY - Carlisle, PA: PB - Strategic Studies Institute KW - United States KW - Military policy N2 - In this volume, the author provides the readers with an explanation of how a decision process that was fundamentally unchanged, with essentially the same people shaping and making the decision, could produce such a different result in 2007. As the current administration tries to replicate the surge in Afghanistan, this monograph shows the perils of attempting to achieve success in one strategic situation by copying actions successfully taken in another, but where different conditions applied ER -