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Author |
: Jim Molan |
Publisher |
: HarperCollins Australia |
Total Pages |
: 34 |
Release |
: 2010-06-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780730400677 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0730400670 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis Running the War in Iraq by : Jim Molan
National bestseller: the ultimate insider account about what really is going on in Iraq. It's the most controversial conflict of our time: a war which has divided citizens, politicians, and militaries, resulted in headlines about torture and suicide bombings, death and destruction. there's no single identifiable enemy and no exit strategy. So how will the war in Iraq be won? What would victory look like?When Australian Major General Jim Molan was deployed to the war to oversee a force of 300,000 troops, including 155,000 Americans, he faced these and other questions on a daily basis. In Running the War in Iraq he gives a gripping insider's account of what modern warfare entails - the ghastly body count, the complex decisions which will mean life or death, the divide between political masters and foot soldiers - and the small, hard-won triumphs.
Author |
: Luke Duffy |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2011 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1456787195 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781456787196 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis Running the Gauntlet by : Luke Duffy
In 2003, Coalition Forces led by America and Great Britain invaded Iraq. In the immediate aftermath the country was left lawless and in turmoil. The army had disintegrated and the police force was none existent. Much of the once powerful nation's infrastructure was smashed and destroyed while the rest of the country, after years of crippling sanctions, had fallen in to disrepair. Western construction companies moved in to begin the rebuilding of Iraq and all the while, the insurgency campaign gained momentum. Kidnappings and attacks on westerners were becoming more frequent and larger, in both scale and daring. The death toll was rising. Many professional soldiers, from all over the world, realised that a lot of money could be made on the ever growing second front of the Iraq war. They left in their droves to join the 'Gold Rush'. Soon, these privately funded soldiers found themselves caught in savage and brutal attacks and gun battles in the streets of Iraq on a daily basis. Running the Gauntlet: The Private War in Iraq is the no punches pulled true account of one man's experiences of the anarchy that reigned after the fall of Saddam.
Author |
: Williamson Murray |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 321 |
Release |
: 2005-09-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674041295 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674041291 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Iraq War by : Williamson Murray
In this unprecedented account of the intensive air and ground operations in Iraq, two of America's most distinguished military historians bring clarity and depth to the first major war of the new millennium. Reaching beyond the blaring headlines, embedded videophone reports, and daily Centcom briefings, Williamson Murray and Robert Scales analyze events in light of past military experiences, present battleground realities, and future expectations. The Iraq War puts the recent conflict into context. Drawing on their extensive military expertise, the authors assess the opposing aims of the Coalition forces and the Iraqi regime and explain the day-to-day tactical and logistical decisions of infantry and air command, as British and American troops moved into Basra and Baghdad. They simultaneously step back to examine long-running debates within the U.S. Defense Department about the proper uses of military power and probe the strategic implications of those debates for America's buildup to this war. Surveying the immense changes that have occurred in America's armed forces between the Gulf conflicts of 1991 and 2003--changes in doctrine as well as weapons--this volume reveals critical meanings and lessons about the new "American way of war" as it has unfolded in Iraq.
Author |
: Jim Molan |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 2008 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:816169388 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (88 Downloads) |
Synopsis Running The War In Iraq - An Australian General, 300000 Troops, the Bloodiest Conflict of Our Time by : Jim Molan
Author |
: Robert Draper |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 496 |
Release |
: 2020-07-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780525561057 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0525561056 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Synopsis To Start a War by : Robert Draper
One of BookPage's Best Books of 2020 “The detailed, nuanced, gripping account of that strange and complex journey offered in Robert Draper’s To Start a War: How the Bush Administration Took America Into Iraq is essential reading—now, especially now . . . Draper’s account [is] one for the ages . . . A must-read for all who care about presidential power.” —The Washington Post From the author of the New York Times bestseller Dead Certain comes the definitive, revelatory reckoning with arguably the most consequential decision in the history of American foreign policy--the decision to invade Iraq. Even now, after more than fifteen years, it is hard to see the invasion of Iraq through the cool, considered gaze of history. For too many people, the damage is still too palpable, and still unfolding. Most of the major players in that decision are still with us, and few of them are not haunted by it, in one way or another. Perhaps it's that combination, the passage of the years and the still unresolved trauma, that explains why so many protagonists opened up so fully for the first time to Robert Draper. Draper's prodigious reporting has yielded scores of consequential new revelations, from the important to the merely absurd. As a whole, the book paints a vivid and indelible picture of a decision-making process that was fatally compromised by a combination of post-9/11 fear and paranoia, rank naïveté, craven groupthink, and a set of actors with idées fixes who gamed the process relentlessly. Everything was believed; nothing was true. The intelligence failure was comprehensive. Draper's fair-mindedness and deep understanding of the principal actors suffuse his account, as does a storytelling genius that is close to sorcery. There are no cheap shots here, which makes the ultimate conclusion all the more damning. In the spirit of Barbara Tuchman's The Guns of August and Marc Bloch's Strange Defeat, To Start A War will stand as the definitive account of a collective process that arrived at evidence that would prove to be not just dubious but entirely false, driven by imagination rather than a quest for truth--evidence that was then used to justify a verdict that led to hundreds of thousands of deaths and a flood tide of chaos in the Middle East that shows no signs of ebbing.
Author |
: David Zucchino |
Publisher |
: Grove Press |
Total Pages |
: 372 |
Release |
: 2004 |
ISBN-10 |
: 080214179X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780802141798 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (9X Downloads) |
Synopsis Thunder Run by : David Zucchino
Chronicling the surprise assault on Baghdad--one of the most decisive battles in American combat history--Zucchino candidly recounts how soldiers respond under fire and stress and how human frailties are magnified in a war zone.
Author |
: Thomas E. Ricks |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 524 |
Release |
: 2006-07-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781101201404 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1101201401 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Synopsis Fiasco by : Thomas E. Ricks
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize • One of the Washington Post Book World's 10 Best Books of the Year • Time's 10 Best Books of the Year • USA Today's Nonfiction Book of the Year • A New York Times Notable Book "Staggeringly vivid and persuasive . . . absolutely essential reading." —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times "The best account yet of the entire war." —Vanity Fair The definitive account of the American military's tragic experience in Iraq Fiasco is a masterful reckoning with the planning and execution of the American military invasion and occupation of Iraq through mid-2006, now with a postscript on recent developments. Ricks draws on the exclusive cooperation of an extraordinary number of American personnel, including more than one hundred senior officers, and access to more than 30,000 pages of official documents, many of them never before made public. Tragically, it is an undeniable account—explosive, shocking, and authoritative—of unsurpassed tactical success combined with unsurpassed strategic failure that indicts some of America's most powerful and honored civilian and military leaders.
Author |
: Walter J. Boyne |
Publisher |
: Macmillan |
Total Pages |
: 306 |
Release |
: 2003-11-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780765310385 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0765310384 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (85 Downloads) |
Synopsis Operation Iraqi Freedom by : Walter J. Boyne
The "New York Times" bestselling author of "Weapons of Desert Storm" presentsan informative look into the first war of the 21st century.
Author |
: Sam Faddis |
Publisher |
: Open Road Media |
Total Pages |
: 275 |
Release |
: 2020-03-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781504062374 |
ISBN-13 |
: 150406237X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Synopsis The CIA War in Kurdistan by : Sam Faddis
“A valuable history [and] a stark warning to Washington policy and strategy makers.” —James Stejskal, former US Army Special Forces and CIA officer In 2002, Sam Faddis was named to head a CIA team that would enter Iraq to facilitate the deployment of follow-on conventional military forces numbering over 40,000 American soldiers. This force, built around the 4th Infantry Division, would, in partnership with Kurdish forces and with the assistance of Turkey, engage Saddam’s army in the North as part of a coming invasion. Faddis expected to be on the ground in Iraq within weeks, the entire campaign likely to be over by summer. Over the course of the next year, virtually every aspect of that plan for the conduct of the war in northern Iraq fell apart. The 4th Infantry Division never arrived, nor did any other conventional forces in substantial number. The Turks not only refused to provide support, they worked overtime to prevent the United States from achieving success. And an Arab army that was to assist US forces fell apart before it ever made it to the field. Alone, hopelessly outnumbered, short on supplies, and threatened by Iraqi assassination teams and Islamic extremists, Faddis’s team, working with Kurdish peshmerga, miraculously paved the way for a brilliant and largely bloodless victory in the North and the fall of Saddam’s Iraq. That victory, handed over to Washington and the Department of Defense on a silver platter, was then squandered. The decisions that followed would lead to catastrophic consequences that continue to this day. This is the story of the brave and effective team of men and women who overcame massive odds to help end the nightmare of Saddam’s rule. It is also the story of how incompetence, bureaucracy, and ignorance threw that success away and condemned Iraq and the surrounding region to chaos
Author |
: Nicholas Moore |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 338 |
Release |
: 2018-11-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781472827074 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1472827074 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Synopsis Run to the Sound of the Guns by : Nicholas Moore
As part of an elite special operations unit at the fighting edge of the Global War on Terrorism, Nicholas Moore spent over a decade with the US Army's 75th Ranger Regiment on the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq. In this compelling biography, a detailed narrative of gruelling life on the ground combines with accounts of some of the most dramatic search and rescue operations of the period to tell the true story of life on the line in the War on Terror. Charting his rise from private to senior non-commissioned officer, this title follows Moore as he embarks on a series of dangerous deployments, engaging in brutal street combat and traversing inhospitable terrain in pursuit of Taliban fighters and Iraq's Most Wanted. Including revelatory first-hand accounts of high-profile special operations missions including the tense rescue of Private First Class Jessica Lynch and the search and rescue mission for US Navy Seal Marcus Luttrell, Moore recounts, in vivid detail, the realities of life on the front line.