Bob Woodward er en institusjon innenfor amerikansk politisk journalistikk, men har blitt kritisert for å ha blitt litt vel snill og rutinert med årene. I denne boka om spillet bak kulissene foran Irak-krigen har han blitt hyllet for å være tilbake i god 70-tallsform.

"For once, a hyped product has lived up to its billing ... no reporter has more talent for getting Washington's inside story and telling it cogently. Plan of Attack offers by far the most intimate glimpse we have been granted of the Bush White House, and, better still, a glimpse of the administration's defining moment: its war of choice against Saddam Hussein." - New York Times