Title Surge : my journey with General David Petraeus and the remaking of the Iraq War / Peter R. Mansoor ; foreword by General David Petraeus

Published New Haven : Yale University Press, [2013]

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Description 1 online resource (xxxii, 341 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps Series Yale library of military history Yale library of military history. 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 Surge is an insider's view of the most decisive phase of the Iraq War. After exploring the dynamics of the war during its first three years, the book takes the reader on a journey to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, where the controversial new U.S. Army and Marine Corps counterinsurgency doctrine was developed; to Washington, D.C., and the halls of the Pentagon, where the Joint Chiefs of Staff struggled to understand the conflict; to the streets of Baghdad, where soldiers worked to implement the surge and reenergize the flagging war effort before the Iraqi state splintered; and to the halls of Congress, where Ambassador Ryan Crocker and General David Petraeus testified in some of the most contentious hearings in recent memory. Using newly declassified documents, unpublished manuscripts, interviews, author notes, and published sources, Surge explains how President George W. Bush, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, Ambassador Crocker, General Petraeus, and other U.S. and Iraqi political and military leaders shaped the surge from the center of the maelstrom in Baghdad and Washington Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject Petraeus, David Howell -- Military leadership SUBJECT Petraeus, David Howell fast Subject Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Campaigns. Counterinsurgency -- Iraq -- History HISTORY -- Middle East -- General. HISTORY -- Military -- Iraq War (2003- ) Counterinsurgency Military campaigns Command of troops Military policy Politics and government SUBJECT United States -- Military policy -- History -- 21st century Iraq -- Politics and government -- 2003- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2004001807 Subject Iraq United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780300199161 0300199163 129997547X 9781299975477 9780300172355 0300172354

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