All Roads Lead to Baghdad
Author: Charles H. Briscoe
Publisher: Military Bookshop
Published: 2013-08
Total Pages: 548
ISBN-13: 9781782663577
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFULL COLOR publications with many photographs and maps. First published in 2006.
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Cost of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Other Global War on Terror Operations Since 9/11
Author: Amy Belasco
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Published: 2011-03
Total Pages: 57
ISBN-13: 1437940676
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the ninth year of operations since the 9/11 attacks while troops are being withdrawn in Iraq and increased in Afghanistan, the cost of war continues to be a major issue including the total amount appropriated, the amount for each operation, average monthly spending rates, and the scope and duration of future costs. This report analyzes war funding for the Defense Department and tracks funding for USAID and VA Medical funding.
Returning Home from Iraq and Afghanistan
Author: Institute of Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2010-03-31
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 0309152852
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNearly 1.9 million U.S. troops have been deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq since October 2001. Many service members and veterans face serious challenges in readjusting to normal life after returning home. This initial book presents findings on the most critical challenges, and lays out the blueprint for the second phase of the study to determine how best to meet the needs of returning troops and their families.
The Thistle and the Drone
Author: Akbar S. Ahmed
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 440
ISBN-13: 0815723784
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArgues that the campaigns that fall under "The War on Terror" have exacerbated the already-broken relationship between central Islamic governments and the tribal societies within their borders.
Special Forces in the War on Terror
Author: Leigh Neville
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2015-05-20
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 1472813510
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA fascinating insight into US and Coalition Special Forces operating in Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia and Mali. Within weeks of 9/11, United States Special Operations Forces were dropping into Afghanistan to lead the war against Al Qaeda and the Taliban. For over a decade, special forces have been fighting a hidden war in Iraq, Pakistan, Syria, Somalia, Mali and Afghanistan, facing off against a range of insurgents from organisations like al Qaeda, al Shabaab, Boko Haram and the Taliban. Leigh Neville draws on recently declassified material and first-hand-accounts from his SOF contacts to lift the veil of secrecy from these operations, giving an unprecedented blow-by-blow description of major Special Forces operations, culminating in SEAL Team 6's Operation Neptune Spear and the killing of Osama bin Laden. Detailing the special equipment, tactics, machinery and training that these Special Operatives received and used this impressive volume shows how the world's elite soldiers fought against overwhelming odds around the world.
All Roads Lead to Baghdad
Author: Charles Harry Briscoe
Publisher: U.S. Government Printing Office
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 552
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBy Charles H. Briscoe, et al. Tells the story of Iraqi Freedom, the second Army Special Operations (ASO) campaign in America's Global War on Terrorism. Shows how the ASO supported a US-led conventional air and ground offensive to collapse the regime of Saddam Hussein and capture Baghdad. Includes bibliographical references.
Between War and Peace
Author: Victor Davis Hanson
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2007-12-18
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 0307430693
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn his acclaimed collection An Autumn of War, the scholar and military historian Victor Davis Hanson expressed powerful and provocative views of September 11 and the ensuing war in Afghanistan. Now, in these challenging new essays, he examines the world’s ongoing war on terrorism, from America to Iraq, from Europe to Israel, and beyond. In direct language, Hanson portrays an America making progress against Islamic fundamentalism but hampered by the self-hatred of elite academics at home and the cynical self-interest of allies abroad. He sees a new and urgent struggle of evil against good, one that can fail only if “we convince ourselves that our enemies fight because of something we, rather than they, did.” Whether it’s a clear-cut defense of Israel as a secular democracy, a denunciation of how the U.N. undermines the U.S., a plea to drastically alter our alliance with Saudi Arabia, or a perception that postwar Iraq is reaching a dangerous tipping point, Hanson’s arguments have the shock of candor and the fire of conviction.
Leaving Without Losing
Author: Mark N. Katz
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2012-03-14
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 142140558X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAssesses what went wrong in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and outlines how the U.S. can restructure its foreign policy by following lessons learned in the Cold War.
Counter Jihad
Author: Brian Glyn Williams
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 0812248678
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCounter Jihad provides a sweeping account of America's military campaigns in the Islamic world and fills a gaping void in our understanding of the War on Terror.
Bounding the Global War on Terrorism
Author: Jeffrey Record
Publisher:
Published: 2014-07-06
Total Pages: 62
ISBN-13: 9781312334519
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe United States is now in the third year of the global war on terrorism. That war began as a fi ght against the organization that perpetrated the heinous attacks of September 11, 2001, but soon became a much more ambitious enterprise, encompassing, among other things, an invasion and occupation of Iraq. As part of the war on terrorism, the United States has committed not only to ridding the world of terrorism as a means of violence but also to transforming Iraq into a prosperous democratic beacon for the rest of the autocratically ruled and economically stagnant Middle East to follow. Dr. Jeffrey Record examines three features of the war on terrorism as currently defi ned and conducted: (1) the administration's postulation of the terrorist threat, (2) the scope and feasibility of U.S. war aims, and (3) the war's political, fi scal, and military sustainability. He fi nds that the war on terrorism-as opposed to the campaign against al-Qaeda-lacks strategic clarity...
