Losing Iraq : insurgency and politics / Stephen C. Pelletière
- Bib ID:
- 4319104
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Pelletiere, Stephen C
- Description:
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- Westport, Conn. : Praeger Security International, 2007
- 151 p. ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9780275992132
- 0275992136
- Summary:
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"According to the Bush administration, the war in Iraq ended in May 2003 when the president pronounced "mission accomplished" from the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln. Yet, fighting, resistance, and American casualties continue. Stephen C. Pelletiere argues that it is Iraqi suspicion of the Americans' motives - the belief that the United States is out to tear the state apart - that is fueling the current rebellion. Resistance in Iraq has become a national struggle, tied to the mood of Iraqis generally, as well as to anger fed by experiences of the whole people over the course of the last quarter century. Americans see Iraq as a failed state because they lack knowledge of those experiences and of Iraqi history. That is what Pelletiere has set out to remedy."
"Chief among his analyses is a brief history of the Iraqi army, focussing on the period of the 1980s and the Iran-Iraq War. The war transformed the army, a change which largely escaped the notice of the United States. Pelletiere also discusses American intelligence about Iraq on the eve of the war, characterizing it as delusory and showing that, even after the invasion, intelligence did not improve. This has led to the deterioration of relations with the Iraqis and precipitated the current revolt. Finally, he discusses the clash between the so-called expatriates and native Iraqis and the part the Islamic Republic is playing under the occupation."
"Perhaps more critically, Pelletiere relates American behavior in Iraq to the wider sphere of U.S. interests in the Persian Gulf specifically and the Middle East overall. In doing so, he positions the war as part of a larger geo-political struggle that encompasses not just the Iraqis or the Iranians, but the Israelis and all of the other client states of the United States in the Middle East."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- The invasion phase
- The Iraqi Army
- Bad intel
- Expatriates vs. the natives
- Analysis and conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- Copyright:
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