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Insurgency and Counter-Insurgency in Iraq /

"Years after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, a loosely organized insurgency continues to target American and Coalition soldiers, as well as Iraqi security forces and civilians, with devastating results. In this account of the ongoing violence, Ahmed Hashim, a specialist on Middle Eastern strategic i...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hashim, Ahmed
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2006.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Evolution of the Iraqi insurgency: from conventional to Partisan warfare during Operation Iraqi freedom
  • Origins and motives of the insurgency
  • The insurgents' way of warfare
  • Contending national identities: the Kurds and Shi'a Arabs
  • Ideology, politics and failure to execute: the US counter-insurgency campaign
  • Whither Iraq?