Iraq In Wartime
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Author |
: Dina Rizk Khoury |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 301 |
Release |
: 2013-04-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107310667 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1107310660 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (67 Downloads) |
Synopsis Iraq in Wartime by : Dina Rizk Khoury
When US-led forces invaded Iraq in 2003, they occupied a country that had been at war for 23 years. Yet in their attempts to understand Iraqi society and history, few policy makers, analysts and journalists took into account the profound impact that Iraq's long engagement with war had on the Iraqis' everyday engagement with politics, the business of managing their daily lives, and their cultural imagination. Drawing on government documents and interviews, Dina Rizk Khoury traces the political, social and cultural processes of the normalization of war in Iraq during the last twenty-three years of Ba'thist rule. Khoury argues that war was a form of everyday bureaucratic governance and examines the Iraqi government's policies of creating consent, managing resistance and religious diversity, and shaping public culture. Coming on the tenth anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq, this book tells a multilayered story of a society in which war has become the norm.
Author |
: Pierre Razoux |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 679 |
Release |
: 2015-11-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674088634 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674088638 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Iran-Iraq War by : Pierre Razoux
From 1980 to 1988, Iran and Iraq fought the longest conventional war of the twentieth century. The tragedies included the slaughter of child soldiers, the use of chemical weapons, the striking of civilian shipping in the Gulf, and the destruction of cities. The Iran-Iraq War offers an unflinching look at a conflict seared into the region’s collective memory but little understood in the West. Pierre Razoux shows why this war remains central to understanding Middle Eastern geopolitics, from the deep-rooted distrust between Sunni and Shia Muslims, to Iran’s obsession with nuclear power, to the continuing struggles in Iraq. He provides invaluable keys to decipher Iran’s behavior and internal struggle today. Razoux’s account is based on unpublished military archives, oral histories, and interviews, as well as audio recordings seized by the U.S. Army detailing Saddam Hussein’s debates with his generals. Tracing the war’s shifting strategies and political dynamics—military operations, the jockeying of opposition forces within each regime, the impact on oil production so essential to both countries—Razoux also looks at the international picture. From the United States and Soviet Union to Israel, Europe, China, and the Arab powers, many nations meddled in this conflict, supporting one side or the other and sometimes switching allegiances. The Iran-Iraq War answers questions that have puzzled historians. Why did Saddam embark on this expensive, ultimately fruitless conflict? Why did the war last eight years when it could have ended in months? Who, if anyone, was the true winner when so much was lost?
Author |
: (None) |
Publisher |
: Harper Collins |
Total Pages |
: 388 |
Release |
: 2003-05-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780060584375 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0060584378 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (75 Downloads) |
Synopsis The War in Iraq by : (None)
Presents more than 250 photographs from different perspectives of the 2003 war in Iraq, gathered from international photographers, and includes pieces of Saddam Hussein's art and pictures from his personal photo album.
Author |
: Williamson Murray |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 413 |
Release |
: 2014-09-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107062290 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1107062292 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (90 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Iran-Iraq War by : Williamson Murray
A comprehensive account of the Iran-Iraq War through the lens of the Iraqi regime and its senior military commanders.
Author |
: Peter R. Mansoor |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 432 |
Release |
: 2008-10-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780300142631 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0300142633 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
Synopsis Baghdad at Sunrise by : Peter R. Mansoor
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.
Author |
: Christopher Hitchens |
Publisher |
: Plume |
Total Pages |
: 116 |
Release |
: 2003 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0452284988 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780452284982 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (88 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Long Short War by : Christopher Hitchens
One of our most respected and controversial liberal thinkers makes the case for war in Iraq. Written in his trademark contrarian voice, Untitled on Iraq is comprised of Hitchens' essays on the justification for war in Iraq and other related issues written for Slate.com, The Wall Street Journal, The Nation, and more, as well as 25% new material on the war
Author |
: Toby Dodge |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 141 |
Release |
: 2017-10-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781351224123 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1351224123 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (23 Downloads) |
Synopsis Iraq – From War to a New Authoritarianism by : Toby Dodge
Iraq recovered its full sovereignty at the end of 2011, with the departure of all US military forces. The 2003 invasion was undertaken to dismantle a regime that had long threatened its own population and regional peace, as well as to establish a stable, democratic state in the heart of the Middle East. This Adelphi looks at the legacy of that intervention and subsequent state-building efforts. It analyses the evolution of the insurgency, the descent into full-scale civil war and the implementation of the surge as a counterinsurgency strategy. It goes on to examine US and Iraqi efforts to reconstruct the states military and civilian capacity. By developing a clear understanding of the current situation in Iraq, this book seeks to answer three questions that are central to the countrys future. Will it continue to suffer high levels of violence or even slide back into a vicious civil war? Will Iraq continue on a democratic path, as exemplified by the three competitive national elections held since 2005? And does the new Iraq pose a threat to its neighbours?
Author |
: Institute of Medicine |
Publisher |
: National Academies Press |
Total Pages |
: 193 |
Release |
: 2010-03-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780309152853 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0309152852 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Synopsis Returning Home from Iraq and Afghanistan by : Institute of Medicine
Nearly 1.9 million U.S. troops have been deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq since October 2001. Many service members and veterans face serious challenges in readjusting to normal life after returning home. This initial book presents findings on the most critical challenges, and lays out the blueprint for the second phase of the study to determine how best to meet the needs of returning troops and their families.
Author |
: Daniel P. Bolger |
Publisher |
: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages |
: 565 |
Release |
: 2014 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780544370487 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0544370481 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (87 Downloads) |
Synopsis Why We Lost by : Daniel P. Bolger
A high-ranking general's gripping insider account of the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and how it all went wrong. Over a thirty-five-year career, Daniel Bolger rose through the army infantry to become a three-star general, commanding in both theaters of the U.S. campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan. He participated in meetings with top-level military and civilian players, where strategy was made and managed. At the same time, he regularly carried a rifle alongside rank-and-file soldiers in combat actions, unusual for a general. Now, as a witness to all levels of military command, Bolger offers a unique assessment of these wars, from 9/11 to the final withdrawal from the region. Writing with hard-won experience and unflinching honesty, Bolger makes the firm case that in Iraq and in Afghanistan, we lost -- but we didn't have to. Intelligence was garbled. Key decision makers were blinded by spreadsheets or theories. And, at the root of our failure, we never really understood our enemy. Why We Lost is a timely, forceful, and compulsively readable account of these wars from a fresh and authoritative perspective.
Author |
: Jeffrey Record |
Publisher |
: Potomac Books, Inc. |
Total Pages |
: 280 |
Release |
: 2010 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781597975902 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1597975907 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Synopsis Wanting War by : Jeffrey Record
A complete explanation of the U.S. decision to go to war in 2003.