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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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The lightning campaign that toppled the Saddam Hussein regime in
Iraq in the spring of 2003 at first 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 in Iraq soon devolved into
a persistent counterinsurgency conflict reminiscent of the long
U.S. effort to pacify the Philippines after the quick 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 much more durable, diverse, and
determined foe relying on the tactics of the guerilla and the
terrorist. This volume focuses on that second and longer campaign
of the war in Iraq, but it is not a narrative of the overall course
of the conflict. Instead, it provides a soldier's-eye view of the
war in the form of detailed accounts of a handful of battles. Each
one illustrates the everyday challenges that America's soldiers
face 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 have shown both resourcefulness and resilience,
while leaders and soldiers in the field have demonstrated the same
courage as previous generations called upon to sacrifice in the
name of freedom.
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