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Surge

My Journey with General David Petraeus and the Remaking of the Iraq War

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Surge

By: Peter R. Mansoor, General David Petraeus - foreword
Narrated by: Mark Boyett
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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 listener 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Using newly declassified documents, unpublished manuscripts, interviews, author notes, and published sources, Surge explains how President George W. Bush, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, Ambassador Crocker,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.

©2013 Peter R. Mansoor (P)2013 Audible, Inc.
21st Century Middle East Military Military & War Modern War Iran US Army American Foreign Policy

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This is an good history of the surge, an tactic that was working, I ask myself why they didn't stick with it, as when they left Iraq, the sectarian violence was still ongoing

A Good History Of This Part Of The Iraq War

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