War and Decision: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism is a 2008 memoir by Douglas Feith, who served as Under Secretary of Defense for Policy from 2001 to 2005. The book offers an insider's perspective on the Pentagon's involvement in the early phases of the War on Terrorism, detailing the planning and initial execution of military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq from summer 2001 through June 2004. Feith defends the Bush administration's strategic decisions, particularly regarding the invasion of Iraq, arguing against narratives of incompetence or deception in intelligence handling and war planning. It critiques internal bureaucratic conflicts, especially with the State Department and CIA, and portrays Feith's office as pivotal in shaping policy. The memoir includes a 30-page appendix reproducing facsimiles of declassified U.S. government memos and documents from the period. Significant for providing a primary source view from a controversial figure accused of promoting flawed intelligence on Iraq's WMDs, the book has been praised by conservatives for its defense of neoconservative policies but criticized by others for omitting key failures and cherry-picking evidence.