Volume II of The Encyclopedia of Modern Iraq provides comprehensive reference material on Iraq’s political, social, historical, and cultural developments in the modern era. Edited by Khaled A.M. Al A'ni, with a foreword by Khairallah Telfah, this volume continues the multi-volume scholarly work offering detailed entries on key figures, events, institutions, and issues relevant to Iraq. It ser…
Contents: Part one : The roots of conflict 1. Lines in the sand 2. The curse of black gold Part two : The making of a war machine 1. Guarded secrets 2. Merchants of Death Part three : Dictatorship and invasion 1. The making of a dictator 2. Saddam's long arm 3. The gathering storm 4. The screw tightens.
A military chronicle of the Iraq war is a critical assessment of America's role as viewed from the firsthand perspectives of senior military officers that argues that the guerrilla insurgency that took place in the months after the fall of Saddam Hussein was avoidable and that officers who spoke against the war did so at the cost of their careers.
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 …