UID:
almafu_9959230648602883
Format:
1 online resource (284 p.)
ISBN:
1-134-10420-0
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1-280-87217-9
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9786610872176
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0-203-08895-6
Series Statement:
Series--strategy and history ; 21
Content:
This volume provides a collection of insightful essays on all phases of the Iraq War: both US-led major combat operations to defeat the Ba'athist regime as well as efforts to reconstruct the country and defeat the insurgency. Written by leading scholars on the Iraq War, many of whom have practical first-hand experience of the war, the book includes a Conclusion by leading US strategic thinker Eliot Cohen. This is the first work on the Iraq War to incorporate an understanding of the Iraqi side of the war, based on a systematic analysis of captured Iraqi archives. War in Ira
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Figures; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Defeating the regime and occupying Iraq; 1 America's anabasis; 2 Iraqi military effectiveness; 3 The Afghan model in northern Iraq; 4 Deep attack against Iraq; 5 Doomed execution; 6 Mission not accomplished; Part II: Reconstructuring Iraq and countering the insurgency; 7 The Iraqi insurgency, 2003-2006; 8 The first battle for Fallujah; 9 Counterinsurgency in Karbala; 10 Civil affairs engagement in Iraq; 11 The U.S. Army and counterinsurgency in Iraq
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12 Rediscovering the way of LawrenceConclusion: Historian's leapfrog and the war in Iraq; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-54524-2
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-42075-X
Language:
English
