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Awakening Victory
Michael E. Silverman
其他書名
How Iraqi Tribes and American Forces Reclaimed Al Anbar Province and Defeated Al Qaeda in Iraq
出版MBI Publishing Company LLC, 2011-09
主題History / Middle East / GeneralHistory / Middle East / IraqHistory / Wars & Conflicts / Iraq War (2003-2011)History / Military / Revolutions & Wars of IndependencePolitical Science / Terrorism
ISBN07603408039780760340806
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=amRSYgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋In fall 2008, U.S. forces in Iraq formally turned over responsibility for al Anbar Province, once the heartland of the Sunni insurgency, to the Iraqi Army and police, in "one of the starkest turnabouts in the country since the war began five and a half years ago" (New York Times). According to Lieutenant Colonel Mike Silverman, commander of one of the "surge" battalions in al Anbar, only two years before many senior U.S. officials thought al Qaeda had won the fight for al Anbar, having planted their flag in Ramadi and declaring it the capital of a new "Islamic State of Iraq."Awakening Victory is SilvermanÆs remarkable account of his battalion and its parent brigadeÆs defeat of al Qaeda in Iraq, in a campaign that will be seen as the D-Day of the Global War on Terror. Awakening Victory tells the story of this incredible campaign through the eyes of a battalion commander who was right in the thick of the fight. This book also gives readers an understanding of the U.S. ArmyÆs new counterinsurgency doctrine, which would two years later be employed in Afghanistan. With its focus on local populations, this doctrine has guided leaders, including the author, toward unprecedented success.