The Iraq War: A Military History

Awards:   Nominated for Albert Hourani Book Award 2004 Nominated for PROSE Awards 2003 Nominated for Richard W. Leopold Prize 2004
Author:   Williamson Murray ,  Robert H. Scales, Jr.
Publisher:   Harvard University Press
Edition:   New edition
ISBN:  

9780674019683


Pages:   368
Publication Date:   01 August 2005
Format:   Paperback
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The Iraq War: A Military History


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Awards

  • Nominated for Albert Hourani Book Award 2004
  • Nominated for PROSE Awards 2003
  • Nominated for Richard W. Leopold Prize 2004

Overview

In this unprecedented account of the intensive air and ground operations in Iraq, two of America's most distinguished military historians bring clarity and depth to the first major war of the new millennium. Reaching beyond the blaring headlines, embedded videophone reports, and daily Centcom briefings, Williamson Murray and Robert Scales analyze events in light of past military experiences, present battleground realities, and future expectations. The Iraq War puts the recent conflict into context. Drawing on their 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 U.S. 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.

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Author:   Williamson Murray ,  Robert H. Scales, Jr.
Publisher:   Harvard University Press
Imprint:   The Belknap Press
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 21.00cm
Weight:   0.438kg
ISBN:  

9780674019683


ISBN 10:   0674019687
Pages:   368
Publication Date:   01 August 2005
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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'Murray and Scales, both American military academics, have produced a superlative record of the invasion - part history, part critique and part doctrinal template for the future.' - The Economist


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Williamson Murray is Senior Fellow at the Institute for Defense Analysis, Washington, D.C. Major General Robert H. Scales, Jr., U.S. Army (Retired), brings perspective as head of the army's team of Gulf War historians and chief author of Certain Victory, the army's official postwar analysis of that conflict. He has also served as Commandant of the Army War College and, most recently, is author of Yellow Smoke: The Future of Land Warfare for America's Military.

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