The strongest tribe : war, politics, and the endgame in Iraq /
In Iraq, America made mistake after mistake. Many gave up on the war. Then the war took a sharp U-turn. Two generals--David Petraeus and Raymond Odierno--displayed the leadership America expected. A universally respected combat journalist provides a history, based on five years of front-line reporti...
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Table of Contents:
- Map of Iraq
- Map of Baghdad
- How to create a mess (Sep 2003)
- Descent into chaos (Sep-Dec 2003)
- A near collapse (Jan-Jun 2004)
- War (Jul-Dec 2004)
- Inadequate means; Widescale fighting; Contradictory goals (2005)
- The second war begins; The Islamic caliphate; Haditha: explosion on the home front (2006)
- A flawed assessment (mid-2006)
- Al Qaeda: murder and intimidation; The turnaround begins; The Civil War; Bush weighs his options (Fall 2006)
- The war turns (Nov 2006)
- Washington turns (Dec 2006)
- The Sunnis change sides (Winter 2007)
- Momentum (Spring 2007)
- Overview (Summer 2007)
- Victory in Anbar; Baghdad: the surge takes hold; Washington assesses the surge (Fall 2007)
- Progress and uncertainty (2008)
- The strongest tribe (2009)
- Insurgency and unity of command in Vietnam
- Memo to Gen. George W. Casey, USA
- Bing West's counterinsurgency lessons.
