The Iraq War: Strategy Tactics and Military Lessons

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In the spring of 2003 a stunned world watched the armed forces of the United States and Britain conduct a military campaign against Iraq. As a result the Iraqi regime was dismantled and much of the conventional wisdom about modern war was irrevocably altered. Yet as U.S. and British forces occupy Basra, Tikrit, and Mosul the Iraqi nation has slipped into anarchy and the phrase shock and awe has begun to sound more appropriate as a description of the war’s aftermath rather than its opening. Such has been the twisted trail of the Iraq War’s dramatic events. But like so many other conflicts the war ultimately seems to pose more questions than it solved. This book is the first in depth analysis of the second war against Saddam Hussein’s regime.

What are the repercussions of the pre war political fights in Washington Paris and the UN? Was meeting initial Military goals really due to Anglo American arms or had Saddam’s regime simply been too degraded to fight? Why didn’t Baghdad become a second Stalingrad? Why werent the occupying forces prepared to impose order? And then there is the significant question: where are Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction? Respected military analyst Anthony Cordesman incisively examines the key issues swirling around the most significant U.S. war since Vietnam. Beginning the search for answers is essential to understanding America’s awesome power and its place in a new age of international terror.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Anthony H. Cordesman

Anthony H. Cordesman holds the Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and is a military analyst for BBC News. His television commentary has been featured prominently during the Iraq War, the Gulf War, Desert Fox, the conflict in Kosovo, and the fighting in Afghanistan. Cordesman is the author of a wide range of studies on U.S. security policy, energy policy, and Middle East policy. He has served as national security assistant to Senator John McCain of the Senate Armed Services Committee, as director of intelligence assessment in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, as civilian assistant to the deputy secretary of defense, and as director of policy and planning for resource applications in the Department of Energy. He has also served in a number of other government position, including in the State Department and on NATO International Staff, and he has numerous foreign assignments, including posts in Lebanon, Egypt, and Iran, with extensive work in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf. Cordesman is the author of more than 20 books. He has been awarded the Department of Defense Distinguished Service Medal, is a former adjunct professor of national security studies at Georgetwon University, and has twice been a Wilson Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Schools at the Smithsonian Institution.