In March 2003, the US-led coalition forces fought a war with Iraq. A few months later, President George W. Bush declared "mission accomplished." However, five years later, in 2008, the United States and other coalition forces remain in Iraq and face rising violence and casualties. U.S. losses death of about 4000 people, while the Iraqi death conflicting sources are estimated in the range of 150,000 to 1,033,000. This case is part of the U.S. government in Iraq over the past four years and offers a brief background of the conflict. Furthermore, it considers the U.S. Government to explain the purpose and objective of the war to the American people and the international community. The case describes the course of the war, as well as the response of the U.S. government is making progress. The case is used to illustrate how the mixed results (the war in Iraq) and have responded to the actors (the U.S. government). This case was designed to address two questions: first, in business schools we teach students about the success more than we teach them about failure. The case is written to make students pay more attention on how they use the successes, failures and the gray area between success and failure and to develop the meaning of events and experiences, the second question is that the students are usually not taught about the "gray zone" that exist between success and failure. central idea of this theory is the fact that although the success / failure dichotomy of organizational effectiveness is simple and, therefore, attractive, organizational life do not respect these categories. "Hide
by Frost Rerup, Jordan Mitchell, Robin Cooper Source: Richard Ivey School of Business Foundation 22 pages. Publication Date: June 25, 2008. Prod. #: 907C34-PDF-ENG