Anthony Cordesman

Iraqi Security Forces

A Strategy for Success

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume documents both the initial mistakes and the changes in U.S. policy that now offer real hope of success in Iraq. Although the United States understood neither the strategic situation in Iraq, nor the value of Iraqi military, security, and police forces in fighting the growing insurgency, the country undertook a series of policy changes in June 2004 that may well correct these mistakes and create the kind of Iraqi forces that are vital to both Iraq's future and any successful reduction in Coalition forces and eventual withdrawal from Iraq. In this book, Cordesman sets a number of U.S. policy priorities that must be attained if Iraqi forces are to be created at anything like the levels of strength and competence that are required. He is convinced that pursuing the right program consistently and with the right resources may well succeed in solving the security aspects of the nation-building problem in Iraq. The history of U.S. efforts to create Iraqi forces is a warning that Americans at every level need to think about what alliance and cooperation mean in creating allied forces for this kind of nation building and warfare. Iraq is only one example of how vital a role such forces must play in many forms of asymmetric warfare. What is equally clear is that Americans must understand that they have a moral and ethical responsibility to the forces they are creating.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 440
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 824g
• ISBN-13: 9780275989088
• ISBN-10: 0275989089
• Artikelnr.: 21765692

Autorenporträt

Anthony H. Cordesman holds the Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy at Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington DC, USA. He formerly served as national security assistant to Senator John McCain of the Senate Armed Services Committee, as director of intelligence assessment in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and as civilian assistant to the deputy secretary of defense. ANTHONY H. CORDESMAN is Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and a military analyst for ABC News. A frequent commentator on National Public Radio, he is the author of numerous books on security issues and has served in a number of senior positions in the US government. ANTHONY H. CORDESMAN is Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and a military analyst for ABC News. A frequent commentator on National Public Radio, he is the author of numerous books on security issues and has served in a number of senior positions in the US government.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Initial Failures in Grand Strategy and Strategic Assessment:
The Background to the Effort to Create Effective Iraqi Security Forces The
Growth and Character of the Insurgent Threat US Training and Equipment
Effort: The Failures of 2003 Failing to Deliver an Adequate Training and
Equipment Program Through the Tenure of the CPA and Mid-2004 The Fall of
2004: The Effort to Train Iraqi Military, Security, and Police Forces
Gathers Momentum The Status of Iraqi Forces in November 2004 End of 2004 As
A Benchmark: Iraqi Security and Military Forces in December 2004 The Run Up
to Elections: Iraqi Security and Military Forces in January 2005 Iraqi
Military and Security Forces in the Spring of 2005 The Iraqi View: Emerging
Iraqi Forces The Evolving Nature of the Insurgency Building the Future
Appendix Chronology of Events Involving Iraqi Security Forces