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edocfu_9959246181502883
Format:
1 online resource (337 p.)
ISBN:
1-61200-077-0
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In August 2006, many senior U.S. officials thought America had lost the war in Iraq, as the senior U.S. Marine Corps intelligence officer there wrote that control of al Anbar Province, the seat of the raging Sunni insurgency, was irrevocably lost to the insurgents. During that time, there were over 100 attacks per day against U.S. military and Iraqi forces in al Anbar, and al Qaeda in Iraq had planted their flag in the provincial capital, Ramadi, declaring it the capital of their new "Islamic State of Iraq."In January 2007, as a spearhead of the newly decided "Surge," the 3rd Battalion, 69th A
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Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1: Invasion; Chapter 2: Rise of the Insurgency; Chapter 3: The Train-Up; Chapter 4: Through the Looking Glass; Chapter 5: Bad Guys and Good Guys; Chapter 6: A Rainy Morning in Georgia; Chapter 7: Changing of the Guard; Chapter 8: The Dark Days; Chapter 9: Expensive Garbage Trucks; Chapter 10: Call to Freedom; Chapter 11: Out to Jazeera; Chapter 12: On the Eastern Front; Chapter 13: Everlasting Bomb Stoppers; Chapter 14: Dancing the Chobi; Chapter 15: Thar Thar is Hot; Chapter 16: Chasing Al Qaeda; Epilogue: Muddy Bookends; Source Notes
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Glossary of Terms and Acronyms
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-61200-097-5
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-61200-062-2
Language:
English
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