Advance Praise for Embedded

“This is an insightful work about the most important part of the war in Iraq. If we are ever going to get out of there, it will be because we listen to people like Wesley Gray.”

—Thomas E. Ricks

Journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winner, author of The Gamble:
General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008


“A superb account of the Iraq War from a truly unique perspective. Wes Gray gives us an insightful view from inside the Iraqi military as it prosecuted its missions in this complex and controversial conflict.”

—Gen. Anthony C. Zinni, USMC (Ret.)
former Commander-in-Chief of U.S. Central Command, 1997-2000, author of The Battle for Peace: A Frontline Vision of America’s Power and Purpose


“Wes Gray has captured at the hard street level the essence of the strategic blunder that the Bush administration made in Iraq—the destruction of the Iraqi Army.”

—Dr. Roby C. Barrett
Middle East Institute scholar, author of The Greater Middle East and the Cold War: U.S. Foreign Policy Under Eisenhower and Kennedy