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Fallujah redux : the Anbar Awakening and the struggle with al-Qaeda

Title: Fallujah redux : the Anbar Awakening and the struggle with al-Qaeda / Daniel R. Green and William F. Mullen III.
Author: Green, Daniel R.
Publication: Annapolis, Maryland : Naval Institute Press, [2014]

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Additional Authors

Mullen, William F., III.

Description

xvii, 157 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm

Summary

The city of Fallujah will long be associated with some of the worst violence and brutality of the Iraq War. Initially occupied by U.S. forces in 2003, it eventually served as the headquarters for numerous insurgent groups operating west of Baghdad, including al-Qaeda in Iraq and its leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, until the city was forcibly retaken at the end of 2004. Once the city was finally cleared, U.S. forces settled into the routine of waging a low-intensity warfare campaign against insurgent forces and trying to set the conditions for Iraqi government control. Even though U.S. forces were winning tactically, they struggled with a population that still strongly supported the insurgency. By the middle of 2007, four years after the initial invasion of Iraq, the city of Fallujah and its surrounding countryside were still mired in a seeminly intractable insurgency. As Anbar province's tribes began to turn against al-Qaeda, Fallujah's residents were waiting for the movement to push eastward to help them eliminate the Islamist threat, but they needed the help of U.S. forces. A concerted pacification campaign, in coordination with tribal efforts, was implemented by U.S. and Iraqi security forces that fundamentally altered local security conditions in Fallujah. Fallujah Redux is the first book about the Fallujah Awakening written by Operation Iraqi Freedom military veterans who served there, providing a comprehensive account of the turning of Fallujah away from the al-Qaeda insurgency in 2007. This book describes the campaign that turned Fallujah from a perennial insurgent hotspot to an example of what can be achieved with the right combination of leadership and perseverance. Many books have told of the major battles in Fallujah; this one tells the rest of the story that never made the news. -- Inside jacket flaps.

Alternative Title

Anbar Awakening and the struggle with al-Qaeda

Subjects

Genre/Form

History.
Personal narratives – American.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Timeline of key events in Fallujah, Iraq -- The stench of death (Fallujah 2004-2006) -- The city of mosques -- The Anbar Awakening -- "Are we losing Fallujah?" -- Bringing democracy to Iraq -- Operation Alljah -- The Fallujah awakening -- The city awakens -- The swarm and the surge -- A sheik returns and another departs -- The deluge -- Voice of the people.

Call Number

JFE 16-8217

ISBN

9781612511429
1612511422

LCCN

2014013771

OCLC

875239890

Author

Green, Daniel R.

Title

Fallujah redux : the Anbar Awakening and the struggle with al-Qaeda / Daniel R. Green and William F. Mullen III.

Publisher

Annapolis, Maryland : Naval Institute Press, [2014]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

Since 2003

Added Author

Mullen, William F., III.

Other Form:

Online version: Green, Daniel R. Fallujah redux. Annapolis, Maryland : Naval Institute Press, [2014] 9781612511436 (DLC) 2014024766

Research Call Number

JFE 16-8217

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