The Iraq War: strategy, tactics, and military lessons / Anthony H. Cordesman.
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TextPublication details: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2003Description: xiv, 572 p. : maps ; 25 cmISBN: 0275982270 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Iraq War, 2003-2011 | Strategy. -- Political | Tactics. -- Political | Nation-state. -- Strategy | Iraq -- HistoryDDC classification: 956.7043 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| 956.700491567 LAW/I Invisible nation: how the Kurds' quest for statehood is shaping Iraq and the Middle East / | 956.704 MAR/M The modern history of Iraq / | 956.704 REA/R Intervention, ethnic conflict and state-building in Iraq: a paradigm for the post-colonial state/ | 956.7043 COR/I The Iraq War: strategy, tactics, and military lessons / | 956.7044 END/A American soldiers in Iraq : McSoldiers or innovative professionals / | 956.70443 ALI/B Bush in Babylon: the recolonisation of Iraq / | 956.70443 AND/G The fall of Baghdad / |
"Published in cooperation with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, D.C."
Includes bibliographical references.
1. Introduction -- 2. The limits of analysis: what we don't yet know -- 3. The force engaged -- 4. The course of the war and the interaction of joint forces -- 5. Three Debates: war plan and transformation, "Powell Doctrine" Versus "Rumsfeld Doctrine," and the "New way of war" -- 6. Lessons about the interaction between military fundamentals and new tactics and technology -- 7. Lessons affecting the overall conduct of the war and joint forces -- 8. Air, Missile, and land-based air defense forces -- 9. Lessons affecting army land forces -- 10. Lessons affecting marine corps land forces -- 11. Lessons affecting naval forces -- 12. Lessons relating to intelligence and weapons of mass destruction -- 13. Other lessons -- 14. Lessons from Iraqi problems and shortcomings -- 15. Lessons regarding the value of allies and build-up time -- 16. Military lessons relating to conflict termination, peacemaking, and nation building -- 17. Grand strategy: the civilian aspects of nation building and the challenge of winning the peace -- 18. Grand strategy: the outcome of the Iraq war and new old Middle East
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