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Tip of the Spear: U.S. Army Small-Unit Action in Iraq, 2004-2007

Tip of the Spear: U.S. Army Small-Unit Action in Iraq, 2004-2007

Hoffman, Jon T.
U. S. Army Center for Military History

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21st Century United States HistoryCentral Asian HistoryIraq War (2003-2011)

ISBN10: 1249497043
ISBN13: 9781249497042
Publisher: Bibliogov
Published: Sep 24 2012
Pages: 218
Weight: 0.88
Height: 0.46 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
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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