Awakening Victory (ePub)
How Iraqi Tribes and American Troops Reclaimed Al Anbar and Defeated Al Qaeda in Iraq
(Sprache: Englisch)
An "instructive first-hand account of how Iraq's insurgents were defeated" in the surge of 2007-written by a Combat Arms Battalion Commander who lived it (Publishers Weekly).
In August 2006, the American war in Iraq was looking grim. Control of Al...
In August 2006, the American war in Iraq was looking grim. Control of Al...
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An "instructive first-hand account of how Iraq's insurgents were defeated" in the surge of 2007-written by a Combat Arms Battalion Commander who lived it (Publishers Weekly).
In August 2006, the American war in Iraq was looking grim. Control of Al Anbar Province, the seat of the Sunni insurgency, was said to be irrevocably lost to the insurgents. Al Qaeda in Iraq had planted their flag in the provincial capital, Ramadi, declaring it the capital of their new "Islamic State of Iraq."
In January 2007, the 3rd Battalion, 69th Armored Regiment, deployed to Ramadi, spearheading a surge that would become the D-Day of the Global War on Terror. By mid-summer 2007, attacks in the province were down ninety percent. As the "awakening" swept through Iraq, it brought about the best security situation since 2003. The 3rd Battalion was the only unit to participate in this campaign from start to finish. Moreover, many of the US successes came directly from this unit's work.
Awakening Victory tells the story of this incredible campaign through the eyes of the 3rd Battalion commander. It describes the battalion's actions, including incidents previously unknown to the public, but it is not merely another war story. The author uses the actions of his battalion to describe a paradigm shift, moving from a war of bombs and bullets to one of partnership and ideas.
In August 2006, the American war in Iraq was looking grim. Control of Al Anbar Province, the seat of the Sunni insurgency, was said to be irrevocably lost to the insurgents. Al Qaeda in Iraq had planted their flag in the provincial capital, Ramadi, declaring it the capital of their new "Islamic State of Iraq."
In January 2007, the 3rd Battalion, 69th Armored Regiment, deployed to Ramadi, spearheading a surge that would become the D-Day of the Global War on Terror. By mid-summer 2007, attacks in the province were down ninety percent. As the "awakening" swept through Iraq, it brought about the best security situation since 2003. The 3rd Battalion was the only unit to participate in this campaign from start to finish. Moreover, many of the US successes came directly from this unit's work.
Awakening Victory tells the story of this incredible campaign through the eyes of the 3rd Battalion commander. It describes the battalion's actions, including incidents previously unknown to the public, but it is not merely another war story. The author uses the actions of his battalion to describe a paradigm shift, moving from a war of bombs and bullets to one of partnership and ideas.
Autoren-Porträt von Michael Silverman
Lt. Col. Michael E. Silverman (ret) is a political scientist and historian by education and has extensive experience in both warfare and Middle Eastern affairs, including a tour as an advisor to a Saudi Arabian infantry battalion in Riyadh. Silverman served a two-year detail to the Central Intelligence Agency at their Langley headquarters between his last two tours in Iraq. There he was privy to the Director's Weekly Iraq Briefing, a working group that discussed issues on the war, many of which ultimately found their way into the President's Daily Briefing. Well-versed in international affairs and world religions, he writes with the authority of someone who has both been blown-up by an IED and helped to shape US strategic policy for the Global War on Terror. In this book he describes, from the very front line, the exact turning point where the United States turned a supposedly failed war into a possibly enduring success.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Michael Silverman
- 2011, 352 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Casemate
- ISBN-10: 1612000770
- ISBN-13: 9781612000770
- Erscheinungsdatum: 10.10.2011
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