"Based on interviews with 75 key participants and more than three and a half hours of exclusive interviews with president Bush, Plan of Attack is part presidential history charting the decisions made during 16 critical months; part military history revealing precise details and the evolution of the Top Secret war planning under the restricted codeword PoloStep; and part a harrowing spy story as CIA dispatches a covert paramilitary team into northern Iraq six months before the start of the war.
It also provides new details on the intelligence assessments of Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction and the planning for the war's aftermath.