Baghdad at Sunrise - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Baghdad at Sunrise write by Peter R. Mansoor. This book was released on 2008-10-01. Baghdad at Sunrise available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An on-the-ground commander describes his brigade's first year in Iraq after the U.S. forces seized Baghdad in the spring of 2003, and explains what went right and wrong as the U.S. military confronted an insurgency, in a firsthand analysis of success and failure in Iraq.
Surge
Surge - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Surge write by Peter R. Mansoor. This book was released on 2013-10-29. Surge available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “The definitive account . . . A fascinating combination of grand strategy and personal vignettes” (Max Boot, The Wall Street Journal). Finalist for the 2013 Guggenheim-Lehrman Prize in Military History Surge is an insider’s view of the most decisive phase of the Iraq War. After exploring the dynamics of the war during its first three years, the book takes the reader on a journey to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, where the controversial new US Army and Marine Corps counterinsurgency doctrine was developed; to Washington, DC, and the halls of the Pentagon, where the joint chiefs of staff struggled to understand the conflict; to the streets of Baghdad, where soldiers worked to implement the surge and reenergize the flagging war effort before the Iraqi state splintered; and to the halls of Congress, where Amb. Ryan Crocker and Gen. David Petraeus testified in some of the most contentious hearings in recent history. Using newly declassified documents, unpublished manuscripts, interviews, author notes, and published sources, Surge explains how President George W. Bush, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, Ambassador Crocker, General Petraeus, and other US and Iraqi political and military leaders shaped the surge from the center of the maelstrom in Baghdad and Washington. “This is one of the best books to emerge from the Iraq War. I expect it will be remembered as one of the most insightful accounts from an insider of the key ‘surge’ phase of that conflict. The chapter on the Sunni Awakening especially stands out as a terrific overview of that critical development.” —Thomas E. Ricks, author of Fiasco
Tales from Old Baghdad
Tales from Old Baghdad - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tales from Old Baghdad write by Khalid Kishtainy. This book was released on 1997. Tales from Old Baghdad available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Partially based on Kishtainy's recollections of his childhood, this satiric novel affords a glimpse of traditional Muslim life busy with squabbling relatives, jealous imams, and lecherous neighbors.
A Revolution in Military Adaptation
A Revolution in Military Adaptation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Revolution in Military Adaptation write by Chad C. Serena. This book was released on 2011-09. A Revolution in Military Adaptation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. During the early years of the Iraq War, the US Army was unable to translate initial combat success into strategic and political victory. Iraq plunged into a complex insurgency, and defeating this insurgency required beating highly adaptive foes. A competition between the hierarchical and vertically integrated army and networked and horizontally integrated insurgents ensued. The latter could quickly adapt and conduct networked operations in a decentralized fashion; the former was predisposed to fighting via prescriptive plans under a centralized command and control. To achieve success, the US Army went through a monumental process of organizational adaptation—a process driven by soldiers and leaders that spread throughout the institution and led to revolutionary changes in how the army supported and conducted its operations in Iraq. How the army adapted and the implications of this adaptation are the subject of this indispensable study. Intended for policymakers, defense and military professionals, military historians, and academics, this book offers a solid critique of the army’s current capacity to adapt to likely future adversary strategies and provides policy recommendations for retaining lessons learned in Iraq.
Sunrise Over Fallujah
Sunrise Over Fallujah - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sunrise Over Fallujah write by Walter Dean Myers. This book was released on 2010-02-01. Sunrise Over Fallujah available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Robin "Birdy" Perry, a new army recruit from Harlem, isn't quite sure why he joined the army, but he's sure where he's headed: Iraq. Birdy and the others in the Civilian Affairs Battalion are supposed to help secure and stabilize the country and successfully interact with the Iraqi people. Officially, the code name for their maneuvers is Operation Iraqi Freedom. But the young men and women in the CA unit have a simpler name for it:WAR
