Insurgency And Counter-Insurgency in Iraq, Hardcover by Hashim, Ahmed S., Use...

by Ahmed S. Hashim

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Insurgency And Counter-Insurgency in Iraq, Hardcover by Hashim, Ahmed S., ISBN 0801444527, ISBN-13 9780801444524, Used Good Condition, Free shipping in the US Years after the . invasion of Iraq, a loosely organized insurgency continues to target American and Coalition soldiers, as well as Iraqi security forces and civilians, with devastating results. In this sobering account of the ongoing violence, Ahmed Hashim, a specialist on Middle Eastern strategic issues and on irregular warfare, reveals the insurgents behind the widespread revolt, their motives, and their tactics. The insurgency, he shows, is not a united movement directed by a leadership with a single ideological vision. Instead, it involves former regime loyalists, Iraqis resentful of foreign occupation, foreign and domestic Islamist extremists, and elements of organized crime. These groups have cooperated with one another in the past and coordinated their attacks; but the alliance between nationalist Iraqi insurgents on the one hand and religious extremists has frayed considerably. The offensive to retake Fallujah in November 2004 and the success of the elections for the Iraqi National Assembly in January 2005 have led more "mainstream" insurgent groups to begin thinking of reinforcing the political arm of their opposition movement and to seek political guarantees for the Sunni Arab community in the new Iraq. Hashim begins by placing the Iraqi revolt in its historical context. He next profiles the various insurgent

• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Year: 2006
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9780801444524
• Condition: Good

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