From the archives – Was “the surge” an effective tactic in Iraq? We got a boots-on-the-ground perspective last March with Pulitzer Prize winner David Finkel who wrote about his almost 15 months with U.S. Army Battalion 2-16 in the book “The Good Soldiers” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009).
![](https://think.kera.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/think-1200-800x500.png)