Obama’s Wars Audiobook (Free)

2011 Audie Award Finalist for non-fiction

In Obama’s Wars, Bob Woodward provides the most intimate and sweeping portrait yet from the young president as commander in main. Drawing on internal memos, classified files, meeting records and thousands of hours of interviews with most of the key players, including the president, Woodward tells the within tale of Obama making the vital decisions over the Afghanistan Battle, the secret campaign in Pakistan as well as the worldwide fight terrorism.

about Obama’s Wars

At the core of Obama’s Wars is the unsettled division between your civilian leadership in the White House and the United States army as the chief executive is thwarted in his attempts to craft an leave arrange for the Afghanistan War.

“So what’s my option?” the chief executive asked his battle cabinet, searching for alternatives towards the Afghanistan commander’s obtain 40,000 more troops in late 2009. “You have essentially given me one option…It’s unacceptable.”

“Well,” Secretary of Defense Robert Gates finally said, “Mr. Leader, I think we owe you that option.”

It never came. An untamed Vice Leader Joe Biden pushes relentlessly to limit the armed service mission and steer clear of another Vietnam. The vice president frantically sent half a dozen handwritten memos by protected fax to Obama on the eve of the ultimate troop decision.

President Obama’s buying a surge of 30,000 soldiers and pledging to start out withdrawing U.S. makes by July 2011 did not end the skirmishing.

General David Petraeus, the brand new Afghanistan commander, thinks period can be added to the clock if he shows progress. “I don’t think you win this battle,” Petraeus said privately. “This is the kind of combat we’re in for the rest of our lives and most likely our children’ lives.”

Hovering over this issue is the possibility of another terrorist strike in the United States. The White House led a magic formula exercise displaying how unprepared the government is definitely if terrorists tripped a nuclear bomb in an American city-which Obama informed Woodward is at the top from the list of what he worries about all the time.

Verbatim quotes from key debates and Light House strategy sessions-and firsthand accounts from the thoughts and issues of the chief executive, his battle council and his generals-reveal a federal government in conflict, often consumed with unpleasant infighting and fundamental disputes.

Woodward has discovered the way the Obama White House really works, showing that even more tough decisions lie ahead for the cerebral and engaged president.

Obama’s Wars offers the reader a stunning, you-are-there account from the chief executive, his White House aides, military leaders, diplomats and intelligence chiefs in this time of turmoil and danger.