Obama's Wars

It focuses on the internal debates and divisions within the Obama administration regarding the handling of the United States' involvement in the ongoing Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

[1] Woodward was interviewed by ABC News anchor Diane Sawyer to promote the book[2] as well as PBS journalist Charlie Rose.

He also commented, "I hope people will read the whole book and see that we had a policy that—and a situation in Afghanistan that had been neglected for seven years, that was badly under-resourced and desperately in need of new ideas and a new strategy.

[5] Carlos Lozada, also of The Washington Post, called upon Woodward for his reaction to learning that Obama's Wars was one of the books Navy SEALs retrieved from Osama bin Laden's final Abbottabad hideout, after they killed him in 2011.

[6] Lozada quoted Woodward's comment that, if bin Laden had read his book more carefully, he would have returned to his mountain cave.