REVIEW: Leap of Faith, by Michael J. Mazarr

Leap of Faith: Hubris, Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy Tragedy, Michael J.

Leap of Faith: Hubris, Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy Tragedy, Michael J. Mazarr (PublicAffairs, 2019).1 There are two stories from the run-up to the American invasion of Iraq that I can’t get out of my head. The first is that in the final stages of war planning, the US Air Force was drawing up targeting lists for the sorties they expected to make. They already had detailed plans2 for striking Iraq’s air defense systems, but they worried that they would also be asked to disable Iraqi WMD sites. So the Air Force pulled together a special team of intelligence officers to…

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