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Michael R. Gordon is the chief military correspondent for ''The New York Times''.〔Gordon's page at (the New York Times ).〕 During the first phase of the Iraq war, he was the only newspaper reporter embedded with the allied land command under General Tommy Franks, a position that "granted him unique access to cover the invasion strategy and its enactment".〔"Engdame: Interviews", (WGBH Public Broadcasting, Boston ), 11 January 2007.〕 He and General Bernard E. Trainor have written two books together, including the best-selling ''Cobra II''. As a journalist for the New York Times he was the first to report Saddam Hussein's alleged nuclear weapons program in September 2002 with the article "U.S. Says Hussein Intensifies Quest for A-Bomb Parts.".〔()〕 ==As an author== Together with Bernard Trainor, he has written two books: ''The Generals' War: The Inside Story of the Conflict in the Gulf'', which covers the 1991 Gulf War, and ''Cobra II'', which covers the Iraq War begun 2003.〔(Roger Spiller ) "Military History: Wishful War," ''American Heritage'', Nov./Dec. 2006.〕 ''The General's War'' won high praise from several critics and decisionmakers, with then Defense Secretary Dick Cheney describing it as "a fascinating account of the war" that he would "recommend" "as something that gives them a different element of some of the key decisions that were made." Jim Lehrer described it as "A superb account and analysis of what went right and what went wrong in the Gulf War"; and Eliot Cohen, writing in ''Foreign Affairs'', called it "the best single volume on the Gulf War."〔"Cobra II", at the (Pantheon Books website ).〕 ''Cobra II'', which "focuses on the rushed and haphazard preparations for war and the appalling relations between the major players," won praise from Lawrence Freedman in ''Foreign Affairs'', who wrote that "the research is meticulous and properly sourced, the narrative authoritative, the human aspects of conflict never forgotten."〔Cobra II, reviewed by Lawrence Freedman, ''(Foreign Affairs )'', Sep/Oct 2006.〕 Gordon's paper, the ''New York Times'', called it "a work of prodigious research", adding that it "will likely become the benchmark by which other histories of the Iraq invasion are measured." ''The New Republic'', while calling the book "splendid", wrote that "Gordon and Trainor remain imprisoned in an almost exclusively military analysis of what went wrong...(which)..unintentionally underplays the essential problem in Iraq--the problem of politics." 〔"Optimism Goes to War", by David Rieff, (The New Republic ), April 12, 2006.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Michael R. Gordon」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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