8 Bells Lecture | Richard Schultz: The Marines Take Anbar: The Four Year Fight Against Al Qaeda
Channel: U.S. Naval War College
Date: 2014-02-04

Richard Schultz, "The Marines Take Anbar: The Four Year Fight Against Al Qaeda" Eight Bells Book Lecture, Naval War College Museum, Jan. 30, 2014.

Considered a major turning point in the Iraq War, this campaign helped to alter the course of events and set the stage for the surge in Baghdad the following year. Looking at the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force (1 MEF), the author details how the Marines adapted and improvised, learning from the hard lessons of past mistakes.

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