The Iraq War Reader

Download The Iraq War Reader full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online The Iraq War Reader ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!

The Iraq War Reader

Author : Christopher Cerf
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743255925
Total Pages : 738 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Iraq War Reader by : Christopher Cerf

Download or read book The Iraq War Reader written by Christopher Cerf and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003-05-15 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the torrent of coverage devoted to war with Iraq, woefully little attention has been paid to the history of the region, the policies that led to the conflict, and the daunting challenges that will confront America and the Middle East once the immediate crisis has ended. In this collection, Micah L. Sifry and Christopher Cerf, coeditors of the acclaimed Gulf War Reader, have assembled essays and documents that present an eminently readable, up-to-the-moment guide -- from every imaginable perspective -- to the continuing crisis in the Gulf and Middle East. Here, in analysis and commentary from some of the world's leading writers and opinion makers -- and in the words of the key participants themselves -- is the engrossing saga of how oil economics, power politics, dreams of empire, nationalist yearnings, and religious fanaticism -- not to mention naked aggression, betrayal, and tragic miscalculation -- have conspired to bring us to the fateful collision of the West and the Arab world over Iraq. Contributors include: Fouad Ajami George W. Bush Richard Butler John le Carré Noam Chomsky Ann Coulter Thomas Friedman Al Gore Seymour Hersh Christopher Hitchens Arianna Huffington Saddam Hussein Terry Jones Robert Kagan Charles Krauthammer William Kristol Nicholas Lemann Kanan Makiya Kevin Phillips Kenneth Pollack Colin Powell Condoleezza Rice Arundhati Roy Edward Said William Safire Jonathan Schell Susan Sontag George Will

The Iraq War Reader

Author : Micah L. Sifry
Publisher : Touchstone
ISBN 13 : 9780743253475
Total Pages : 740 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (534 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Iraq War Reader by : Micah L. Sifry

Download or read book The Iraq War Reader written by Micah L. Sifry and published by Touchstone. This book was released on 2003 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of approximately 80 articles and documents presenting a balanced overview of the war in Iraq--the history of the region, the causes of conflict, and the opinions of thinkers on both sides of the debate.

A Long Short War

Author : Christopher Hitchens
Publisher : Plume
ISBN 13 : 9780452284982
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (849 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis A Long Short War by : Christopher Hitchens

Download or read book A Long Short War written by Christopher Hitchens and published by Plume. This book was released on 2003 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of our most respected and controversial liberal thinkers makes the case for war in Iraq. Written in his trademark contrarian voice, Untitled on Iraq is comprised of Hitchens' essays on the justification for war in Iraq and other related issues written for Slate.com, The Wall Street Journal, The Nation, and more, as well as 25% new material on the war

The Iran-Iraq War

Author : Pierre Razoux
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674088638
Total Pages : 679 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Iran-Iraq War by : Pierre Razoux

Download or read book The Iran-Iraq War written by Pierre Razoux and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-03 with total page 679 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1980 to 1988, Iran and Iraq fought the longest conventional war of the twentieth century. The tragedies included the slaughter of child soldiers, the use of chemical weapons, the striking of civilian shipping in the Gulf, and the destruction of cities. The Iran-Iraq War offers an unflinching look at a conflict seared into the region’s collective memory but little understood in the West. Pierre Razoux shows why this war remains central to understanding Middle Eastern geopolitics, from the deep-rooted distrust between Sunni and Shia Muslims, to Iran’s obsession with nuclear power, to the continuing struggles in Iraq. He provides invaluable keys to decipher Iran’s behavior and internal struggle today. Razoux’s account is based on unpublished military archives, oral histories, and interviews, as well as audio recordings seized by the U.S. Army detailing Saddam Hussein’s debates with his generals. Tracing the war’s shifting strategies and political dynamics—military operations, the jockeying of opposition forces within each regime, the impact on oil production so essential to both countries—Razoux also looks at the international picture. From the United States and Soviet Union to Israel, Europe, China, and the Arab powers, many nations meddled in this conflict, supporting one side or the other and sometimes switching allegiances. The Iran-Iraq War answers questions that have puzzled historians. Why did Saddam embark on this expensive, ultimately fruitless conflict? Why did the war last eight years when it could have ended in months? Who, if anyone, was the true winner when so much was lost?

Secret History of the Iraq War

Author : Yossef Bodansky
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061753955
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (617 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Secret History of the Iraq War by : Yossef Bodansky

Download or read book Secret History of the Iraq War written by Yossef Bodansky and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the months leading up to March 2003, fresh from its swift and heady victory in Afghanistan, the Bush administration mobilized the United States armed forces to overthrow the government of Iraq. Eight months after the president declared an end to major combat operations, Saddam Hussein was captured in a farmhouse in Al-Dawr. And yet neither peace nor democracy has taken hold in Iraq; instead the country has plunged into terrorist insurgency and guerrilla warfare, with no end in sight.What went wrong? In The Secret History of the Iraq War, bestselling author Yossef Bodansky offers an astonishing new account of the war and its aftermath—a war that was doomed from the start, he argues, by the massive and systemic failures of the American intelligence community. Drawing back the curtain of politicized debate, Bodansky—a longtime expert and director of the Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare—reveals that nearly every aspect of America's conflict with Iraq has been misunderstood, in both the court of public opinion and the White House itself. Among his revelations: The most authoritative account of Saddam Hussein's support for Islamic terrorist organizations—including extensive new reporting on his active cooperation with al-Qaeda in Iraq long after the fall of Baghdad Extensive new information on Iraq's major chemical and biological weapons programs—including North Korea's role in building still-undetected secret storage facilities and Iraq's transfer of banned materials to Syria, Iran, and Libya The first account of Saddam's plan for Iraq, Syria, and Iran to join Yasser Arafat's Palestinian forces to attack Israel, throw the region into turmoil, and upend the American campaign The untold story of Russia's attempt to launch a coup against Saddam before the war—and how the CIA thwarted it by ensuring that Iraq was forewarned Dramatic details about Saddam's final days on the run, including the untold story of a near miss with U.S. troops and the stunning revelation that Saddam was already in custody at the time of his capture—and was probably betrayed by members of his own Tikriti clan The definitive account of the anti-U.S. resistance and uprising in Iraq, as the American invasion ignited an Islamic jihad and Iran-inspired intifada, threatening to plunge the region into irreversible chaos fueled by hatred and revenge Revelations about the direct involvement of Osama bin Laden in the terrorism campaigns in Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and the rest of the Middle East—including the major role played by Iran and HizbAllah in al-Qaeda's operations Drawing upon an extraordinary wealth of previously untapped intelligence and regional sources, The Secret History of the Iraq War presents the most detailed, fascinating, and convincing account of the most controversial war of our times—and offers a sobering indictment of an intelligence system that failed the White House, the American military, and the people of the Middle East.

Tomas Young's War

Author : Mark Wilkerson
Publisher : Haymarket Books
ISBN 13 : 1608466515
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (84 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Tomas Young's War by : Mark Wilkerson

Download or read book Tomas Young's War written by Mark Wilkerson and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2016-05-14 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tomas Young’s War is the tragic yet life affirming story of a paralyzed Iraq War veteran who spent his last ten years battling heroically with his injuries, while courageously speaking against America's wars. Based on hours of interviews with Young and those close to him, the book puts the reader alongside Young as he struggles with life as a paralyzed veteran, suffering frustration and humiliation as he attempts to reenter society and resume as normal an existence as possible. It shows his fight to balance his precarious health with his drive to speak out for veterans care and against the war, and the impact his catastrophic injuries had on his family and his relationships. This emotional and powerful book sheds light on many crucial but often overlooked issues such as veterans’ care, public attitudes toward the disabled, medical marijuana, and the terminally ill. Tomas Young’s War shares everything, as unflinchingly honest as Tomas himself: the depression, the pain, the love, and laughter . . . the life of this man whose world was turned upside down by an Iraqi bullet more than ten years ago. Throughout, it serves as a powerful testament to the true cost of war.

The Iraq War

Author : Williamson Murray
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674041291
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Iraq War by : Williamson Murray

Download or read book The Iraq War written by Williamson Murray and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2005-09-28 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Iran-Iraq War

Author : Williamson Murray
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107062292
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Iran-Iraq War by : Williamson Murray

Download or read book The Iran-Iraq War written by Williamson Murray and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-04 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive account of the Iran-Iraq War through the lens of the Iraqi regime and its senior military commanders.

To Start a War

Author : Robert Draper
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525561064
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis To Start a War by : Robert Draper

Download or read book To Start a War written by Robert Draper and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-07-27 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Essential . . . one for the ages . . . a must read for all who care about presidential power.” —The Washington Post “Authoritative . . . The most comprehensive account yet of that smoldering wreck of foreign policy, one that haunts us today.” —LA Times One of BookPage's Best Books of 2020 To Start a War paints a vivid and indelible picture of a decision-making process that was fatally compromised by a combination of post-9/11 fear and paranoia, rank naïveté, craven groupthink, and a set of actors with idées fixes who gamed the process relentlessly. Everything was believed; nothing was true. Robert Draper’s fair-mindedness and deep understanding of the principal actors suffuse his account, as does a storytelling genius that is close to sorcery. There are no cheap shots here, which makes the ultimate conclusion all the more damning. In the spirit of Barbara W. Tuchman’s The Guns of August and Marc Bloch’s Strange Defeat, To Start A War will stand as the definitive account of a collective scurrying for evidence that would prove to be not just dubious but entirely false—evidence that was then used to justify a verdict that led to hundreds of thousands of deaths and a flood tide of chaos in the Middle East that shows no signs of ebbing.

War Flower

Author : Brooke King
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1640121838
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (41 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis War Flower by : Brooke King

Download or read book War Flower written by Brooke King and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2019-03-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brooke King has been asked over and over what it’s like to be a woman in combat, but she knows her answer is not what the public wants to hear. The answers people seek lie in the graphic details of war—the sex, death, violence, and reality of it all as she experienced it. In her riveting memoir War Flower, King breaks her silence and reveals the truth about her experience as a soldier in Iraq. Find out what happens when the sex turns into secret affairs, the violence is turned up to eleven, and how King’s feelings for a country she knew nothing about as a nineteen-year-old become more disturbing to her as a thirty-year-old mother writing it all down before her memories fade into oblivion. The story of a girl who went to war and returned home a woman, War Flower gathers the enduring remembrances of a soldier coming to grips with post-traumatic stress disorder. As King recalls her time in Iraq, she reflects on what violence does to a woman and how the psychic wounds of combat are unwittingly passed down from mother to children. War Flower is ultimately a profound meditation on what it means to have been a woman in a war zone and an unsettling exposé on war and its lingering aftershocks. For veterans such as King, the toughest lesson of service is that in the mind, some wars never end—even after you come home.

Cobra II

Author : Michael R. Gordon
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0375424245
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (754 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Cobra II by : Michael R. Gordon

Download or read book Cobra II written by Michael R. Gordon and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2006-03-14 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by the chief military correspondent of the New York Times and a prominent retired Marine general, this is the definitive account of the invasion of Iraq. A stunning work of investigative journalism, Cobra II describes in riveting detail how the American rush to Baghdad provided the opportunity for the virulent insurgency that followed. As Gordon and Trainor show, the brutal aftermath was not inevitable and was a surprise to the generals on both sides. Based on access to unseen documents and exclusive interviews with the men and women at the heart of the war, Cobra II provides firsthand accounts of the fighting on the ground and the high-level planning behind the scenes. Now with a new afterword that addresses what transpired after the fateful events of the summer of 2003, this is a peerless re-creation and analysis of the central event of our times.

Sheriff of Babylon Vol. 1: Bang. Bang. Bang.

Author : Tom King
Publisher : Vertigo
ISBN 13 : 1401270611
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Sheriff of Babylon Vol. 1: Bang. Bang. Bang. by : Tom King

Download or read book Sheriff of Babylon Vol. 1: Bang. Bang. Bang. written by Tom King and published by Vertigo. This book was released on 2016-07-19 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baghdad, 2003. The reign of Saddam Hussein is over. The Americans are in command. And no one is in control. Former cop turned military contractor Christopher Henry knows that better than anyone. HeÕs in the country to train up a new Iraqi police force, and one of his recruits has just been murdered. With civil authority in tatters and dead bodies clogging the streets, Chris is the only person in the Green Zone with any interest in finding out who killed him-and why. ChrisÕ inquiry brings him first to Sofia, an American-raised Iraqi who now sits on the governing council, and then to Nassir, a grizzled veteran of SaddamÕs police force-and probably the last real investigator left in Baghdad. United by death but divided by conflicting loyalties, the three must help each other navigate the treacherous landscape of post-invasion Iraq in order to hunt down the killers. But are their efforts really serving justice-or a much darker agenda? Inspired by his real-life experiences as a CIA operations officer in Iraq, writer Tom King (BATMAN) teams with artist Mitch Gerads to deliver a wartime crime thriller like no other in THE SHERIFF OF BABYLON VOL. 1: BANG. BANG. BANG., collecting issues #1-6 of their groundbreaking Vertigo series.

Iraq War

Author : Brian L. Steed
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1440858314
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (48 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Iraq War by : Brian L. Steed

Download or read book Iraq War written by Brian L. Steed and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2019-02-15 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This invaluable resource offers a comprehensive overview of the Iraq War, with more than 100 in-depth articles by leading scholars on an array of topics and themes and more than a dozen key primary source documents. This book provides everything the reader needs to know about the Iraq War, from the Bush administration's decision to invade Iraq, through the U.S. troop surge in 2007, to the rise of the Islamic State. It offers insight into the war through the events, organizations, and people who have had a major impact on the conflict. It also explains the inadvertent consequences of the conflict including worsening regional sectarian divisions, the Arab Spring, the increase in Iranian influence in the Middle East, and the expansion of international terrorism. The book begins with a sweeping overview of the Iraq War that provides context for each of the reference entries that follow. The introductory material also includes detailed essays on the causes and consequences of the war. The bulk of the book consists of more than 120 reference entries on such topics as Saddam Hussein, the battles of Fallujah, and private military contractors such as Blackwater and Halliburton. In addition, the book includes more than a dozen curated and contextualized primary source documents along with a comprehensive chronology and extensive bibliography.

Mass Deception

Author : Scott A. Bonn
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813547881
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Mass Deception by : Scott A. Bonn

Download or read book Mass Deception written by Scott A. Bonn and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Mass Deception argues that the George W. Bush administration manufactured public support for the war on Iraq."--Page 4 of cover.

Baghdad at Sunrise

Author : Peter R. Mansoor
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300142633
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Baghdad at Sunrise by : Peter R. Mansoor

Download or read book Baghdad at Sunrise written by Peter R. Mansoor and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An on-the-ground commander describes his brigade's first year in Iraq after the U.S. forces seized Baghdad in the spring of 2003, and explains what went right and wrong as the U.S. military confronted an insurgency, in a firsthand analysis of success and failure in Iraq.

The War in Iraq

Author : David Downing
Publisher : Capstone Classroom
ISBN 13 : 9781403462619
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (626 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The War in Iraq by : David Downing

Download or read book The War in Iraq written by David Downing and published by Capstone Classroom. This book was released on 2004-11-15 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For anyone interested in primary sources and their significance, this is the source to turn to. Primary source accounts of history add an unmatched authenticity to this series. Each book introduces the period and the available sources, justifying why we can rely on them, who produced them, or why they have survived. The text also gives historical background and explores what can be learned from the source.

The Iraq War

Author : Williamson Murray
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674012806
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (128 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Iraq War by : Williamson Murray

Download or read book The Iraq War written by Williamson Murray and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2003-10-30 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.