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The Iraq War : A Military History Williamson, Scales, Robert H. M
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- EX-LIBRARY
- Publication Name
- Harvard University Press
- ISBN
- 9780674012806
- Book Title
- Iraq War : a Military History
- Item Length
- 8.5in
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Publication Year
- 2003
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.1in
- Genre
- History
- Topic
- United States / 20th Century, Military / Strategy, Military / United States, Military / Iraq War (2003-2011), Military / Persian Gulf War (1991)
- Item Width
- 5.9in
- Item Weight
- 19.7 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 256 Pages
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Two of America's most distinguished military historians go beyond the blaring headlines, embedded videophone reports and Centcom briefings to analyze events in light of past military experience, present battleground realities and future expectations. 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 US 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. volume of the Gulf War Air Power Survey, commissioned after the 1991 conflict in Kuwait. Major General Robert H. Scales, Jr., US Army retired, brings perspective as head of the Army's team of Gulf War historians. He also served as Commandant of the Army War College.
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Publisher
Harvard University Press
ISBN-10
0674012801
ISBN-13
9780674012806
eBay Product ID (ePID)
102834529
Product Key Features
Book Title
Iraq War : a Military History
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
United States / 20th Century, Military / Strategy, Military / United States, Military / Iraq War (2003-2011), Military / Persian Gulf War (1991)
Publication Year
2003
Genre
History
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.5in
Item Height
1.1in
Item Width
5.9in
Item Weight
19.7 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ds79.724.U6m874 2003
Reviews
Military historians Murray and Scales have written an enormously detailed description and analysis of the U.S.-led campaign to overthrow Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq in March-April 2003. Their book's value lies in its step-by-step report on the invasion., Williamson Murray and Robert Scales, both American military academics, have produced a superlative record of the invasion--part history, part critique and part doctrinal template for the future. Technical and operational aspects are explained clearly without losing the depth required to make this a serious study., In their coverage of Operation Iraqi Freedom...embedded reporters provided vertical depth but little horizontal scope. Profound portraits of individual soldiers and units were rarely complemented by competent narratives placing the various military operations in the context of a grand strategic view. That is the job not of war correspondents but of military historians . Williamson Murray, a senior fellow at the Institute of Defense Analysis, and Major General Robert H. Scales Jr., a former commandant of the Army War College, fill the void., In their coverage of Operation Iraqi Freedom...embedded reporters provided vertical depth but little horizontal scope. Profound portraits of individual soldiers and units were rarely complemented by competent narratives placing the various military operations in the context of a grand strategic view. That is the job not of war correspondents but of military historians. Williamson Murray, a senior fellow at the Institute of Defense Analysis, and Major General Robert H. Scales Jr., a former commandant of the Army War College, fill the void., The academic depth of Williamson Murray and the professional experience of Major General Robert Scales ensure that their lively account of the war against Iraq is a superior, authoritative product. Its focus is operational (neither Donald Rumsfeld nor Paul Wolfowitz appears in the index), but the authors acknowledge the importance of political context, especially the 'sustaining power of tyranny' even in the face of a 'shock and awe' air assault., For those wanting a detailed analysis of the strategic and operational dimensions of the recent war, this is the book., Murray and Scales offer plenty of detailed combat accounts. But largely, their book seeks to step back and put the war in a larger frame.
Table of Content
Prologue: The Gulf War, 1991 1. The Origins of War 2. The Opposing Sides 3. The Ground Campaign in Southern Iraq 4. The British War in the South 5. The Air War 6. The End of the Campaign 7. Military and Political Implications Weapons of War Notes Acknowledgments and Sources Index
Copyright Date
2003
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2003-056668
Dewey Decimal
956.7044/3/0973
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
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