Coming February 6, 2024 . . .
MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
Pre-order at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop
Coming February 6, 2024 . . . MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Pre-order at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
“I think that the surge has succeeded in ways that nobody anticipated. It’s succeeded beyond our wildest dreams.”
– President Barack Obama
One of the enduring myths of the Iraq War is that George W. Bush’s “surge” of 30,000 US troops into Iraq in 2007, reduced the number of attacks on US troops and effectively defeated the Sunni-led insurgency in Baghdad. This is entirely false.
Comments
by A Guy Called LULU on Wed, 03/13/2013 - 12:20pm
I found a nice article deconstructing Galula to Petraeus some time back, noting the innate failure of both. Can't find it now, but our Counterinsurgency work seems overoptimistic & fatally flawed.
Here's 1 article that looks to be good at first glimpse:
http://www.nicholasmirzoeff.com/Images/Mirzoeff_WarIsCulture.pdf
by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 03/13/2013 - 1:55pm