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Tip of the Spear - U.S. Army Small-Unit Action in Iraq, 2004-2007 (Paperback)
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Tip of the Spear - U.S. Army Small-Unit Action in Iraq, 2004-2007 (Paperback)
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Total price: R687
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The lightning campaign that toppled the Saddam Hussein regime in
Iraq in the spring of 2003 seemed to herald the arrival of a new
way of war, as Germany's blitzkrieg had done at the beginning of
World War II. But the initial victory soon devolved into a
persistent counterinsurgency conflict reminiscent of the long U.S.
effort to pacify the Philippines after the rapid defeat of Spain in
1898. In Iraq, American soldiers and their Coalition partners had
merely traded one fairly weak and generally conventional opponent
for a more deadly, diverse, and determined foe relying on the
tactics of the guerrilla and the terrorist. This volume focuses on
that second and longer campaign. But rather than a narrative of the
overall course of the conflict, it provides a soldier's-eye view of
the war by focusing on detailed accounts of selected engagements.
Each illustrates the everyday challenges that America's soldiers
faced in a difficult struggle against an inventive and often
elusive enemy. Weapons, doctrine, and procedures developed to fight
a conventional campaign against a similar opposing force had to be
adapted to fit a different type of conflict. The U.S. Army's combat
and support forces brought both resourcefulness and resilience to
this task while continuing to demonstrate the same courage shown by
previous generations fighting the nation's battles. These stories
not only symbolize the tip of the spear formed by units in contact,
but they also represent the contributions of all American men and
women who have served their country in Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Taken together, these accounts will provide our deploying leaders
and soldiers a better understanding of the environment that they
will encounter and prepare them for the work that must be done.
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