| Description |
xxxii, 341 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
Yale library of military history |
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Yale library of military history.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-323) and index. |
| Contents |
Maps -- Prologue Baghdad, February 11, 2007 -- A war almost lost -- Designing the surge -- Fardh Al-Qanoon -- Tower 57 -- The awakening -- Turning the tide -- Testimony -- Power politics -- Charge of the knights -- The surge in retrospect -- Appendix 1: Report to Congress on the situation in Iraq -- Appendix 2: Multi-national force -- Iraq commander's counterinsurgency guidance -- Appendix 3: Anaconda strategy versus Al-Qaeda in Iraq -- Appendix 4: Security incidents in Iraq. |
| Summary |
Using newly declassified documents, interviews, and published sources, a member of General David Petraeus' personal staff provides an insider account of the troop surge in Iraq and how key political leaders orchestrated it. |
| Local Note |
WNDSR--This book is the gift of the Windsor/Windsor Locks Rotary in honor of Melvin Banks. |
| Subject |
Petraeus, David Howell -- Military leadership.
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Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Campaigns.
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Counterinsurgency -- Iraq -- History.
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United States -- Military policy -- History -- 21st century.
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Iraq -- Politics and government -- 2003-
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| ISBN |
9780300172355 cloth alkaline paper |
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0300172354 cloth alkaline paper |
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