Iraq War
Title: Team of Teams – New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World
Author: General Stanley McChrystal
Book Description:
Team of Teams, written by retired Army General Stanley McChrystal with Tantum Collins, David Silverman, and Chris Fussell. General McChrystal calls on his experience commanding special operations forces in Iraq to challenge the status quo of centralized command and control. When General McChrystal took command of the Joint Special Operations Task Force in 2004, he quickly […]
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Title: Grunts Inside the American Infantry Combat Experience, World War II Through Iraq
Author: John C. McManus
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John C. McManus covers six decades of warfare in which the courage of American troops proved the crucial difference between victory and defeat. Based on years of archival research and personal interviews with veterans, Grunts demonstrates the vital, and too often forgotten, importance of the human element in protecting the American nation, and advances a […]
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Title: The Endgame: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Iraq, from George W. Bush to Barack Obama
Author: Michael R. Gordon and Bernard E. Trainor
Book Description:
A peerless work of investigative journalism and historical recreation ranging from 2003 to 2012, it gives us the first comprehensive, inside account of arguably the most widely reported yet least understood war in American history—from the occupation of Iraq to the withdrawal of American troops. Prodigiously researched, The Endgame is not only based on an abundance […]
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Title: Counterinsurgency: Exposing the Myths of the New Way of War
Author: Douglas Porch
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Counterinsurgency has staked its claim in the new century as the new American way of war. Yet, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have revived a historical debate about the costs – monetary, political and moral – of operations designed to eliminate insurgents and build nations. Today’s counterinsurgency proponents point to ‘small wars’ past to […]
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Title: American Military History, vol. 2, The United States Army in a Global Era, 1917-2008
Author: Richard W. Stewart
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Created initially as a Reserve Officers’ Training Corps textbook, this second volume in a two-volume overview of the Army’s story covers the period from World War I to the early days of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Written in an engaging style and enhanced by sophisticated graphics and recommended readings, the work is an […]
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Title: The Unseen War – Allied Air Power and the takedown of Saddam Hussein
Author: Benjamin S Lambeth
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The Unseen War offers a comprehensive assessment of the air contribution to the three weeks of major combat that ended the rule of Iraq’s Saddam Hussein in 2003. In contrast to Operation DESERT STORM in 1991, the role of allied air power in the Nation’s second war against Iraq was not apparent to most observers, due […]
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Title: House To House
Author: David Bellavia, John R Bruning
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One of the great heroes of the Iraq War, Staff Sergeant David Bellavia captures the brutal action and raw intensity of leading his Third Platoon, Alpha Company, into the lethally choreographed kill zone of booby-trapped, explosive-laden houses of Fallujah’s militant insurgents. Bringing to searing life the terrifying intimacy of hand-to-hand infantry combat, this stunning war […]
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Title: Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War
Author: Robert M Gates
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From the former secretary of defense, a strikingly candid, vividly written account of his experience serving Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Before Robert M. Gates received a call from the White House in 2006, he thought he’d left Washington politics behind: after working for six presidents […]
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