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The Marines' campaign to secure Anbar Province in Iraq will rank as
one of the Corps' historic battle achievements. Dick Shultz's
brilliant account of that campaign is rich in lessons learned and
examples of adaptability. The Marines Take Anbar will be a classic
study in counter insurgency." -- Gen. Anthony C. Zinni, USMC (Ret.)
The U.S. Marine Corps' four-year campaign against al Qaeda in Anbar
is a fight certain to take its place next to such legendary clashes
as Belleau Wood, Guadalcanal, Peleliu, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Chosin,
and Khe Sanh. Its success, the author contends, constituted a major
turning point in the Iraq War and helped alter the course of events
and set the stage for the Surge in Baghdad a year later. This book
brings to light all the decisive details of how the Marines,
between 2004 and 2008, adapted and improvised as they applied the
hard lessons of past mistakes. In March 2004, when part of the 1st
Marine Expeditionary Force (I MEF) was deployed to Anbar Province
in the heart of the Sunni triangle, the Marines quickly found
themselves locked in a bloody test of wills with al Qaeda, and a
burgeoning violent insurgency. By the spring of 2006, according to
all accounts, enemy violence was skyrocketing, while predictions
for any U.S. success were plummeting. But at that same time new
counterinsurgency initiatives were put in place when I MEF returned
for its second tour in Anbar, and the Marines began to gain
control. By September 2008 the fight was over. Richard Shultz, a
well-known author and international security studies expert, has
thoroughly researched this subject. His book effectively argues the
case for the Marines changing the course of the war at Anbar, which
is contrary to the conventional wisdom that the Surge was the
turning point.
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