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In the Gray Area - A Marine Advisor Team at War (Hardcover)
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In the Gray Area - A Marine Advisor Team at War (Hardcover)
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In the Gray Area is a Marine officer's reflection of his tour of
duty as the leader for an advisor team embedded with an Iraqi Army
infantry battalion. In February 2008 Major Folsom deployed to Iraq
as Team Leader, Military Transition Team 0733. During this
deployment his advisor team was embedded with the 7th Iraqi Army
Division. Tasked with the mission to train, coach, mentor, and
advise the new Iraqi Army's 3rd Battalion, 28th Brigade, the
Marines of Military Transition Team 0733 - the "Outlanders" -
quickly found the reality of their advisor mission fraught with
challenges.
In the Gray Area explores the bond between Folsom and the fourteen
men that comprised his advisor team, as well as the tenuous
relationship forged between the Marines and their Iraqi
counterparts as they struggled to assume independent control of -
and maintain security in - Iraq's western al-Anbar province.
Highlighting the obstacles faced by Marine advisors as they live,
work, eat, and operate with an army whose language and culture are
vastly different from their own, Folsom creates a compelling
picture of the challenges faced by the Marine Advisor Teams working
with the Iraqi Army to drive al-Qaeda from al-Anbar.
In the Gray Area builds on Folsom's The Highway War, his award
winning memoir of his experience as the commanding officer of Delta
Company, First Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, U.S. Marine
Corps, which was one of the first into Iraq in March 2003. In The
Highway War, he conveyed the stress, excitement and uncertainty of
modern ground warfare from the viewpoint of a young combat leader.
In the Gray Area centers on an Iraqi Army that is more mature and
on the cusp of independence from its American partners, and it
takes place during a period in which there are increased calls for
the United States to withdraw from Iraq. In his new book, Folsom
shows his maturation as a commander as he thoughtfully details the
difficulties posed by a possibly premature American departure from
Iraq and questions if the advisor mission is really the key to our
attempt to exit Iraq?
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