U.S. Policy in Post-Saddam Iraq
Subtitle: Lessons from the British Experience
Contributors: Washington Institute for Near East Policy (Corporate Author); Michael Eisenstadt (Editor); Eric Mathewson (Editor)
Publisher: Washington Institute for Near East Policy
Published: March 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 84
ISBN-13: 9780944029848
Subjects: Central government policies; World War, 1939-1945; Politics - Current Events; Iraq; Government - U.S. Government; Politics/International Relations; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Military - World War I; Development - Economic Development; International Relations - General; Relations; Military - World War II; World War, 1914-1918; Great Britain; National state
First sentence: On November 6, 1914, a week after the Ottoman Empire had entered World War I on the side of the Central Powers, Indian Expeditionary Force D landed at Fao in the southernmost province of Ottoman Iraq.
Description: "American troops promising to end a despot's tyranny and usher in an era of freedom and prosperity in Iraq are likely to confront many of the same challenges faced by Britain when its forces entered that country during World War I. Because Britain's Iraq experience - which soon saw the abandonment of London's original, lofty aspirations and eventually ended with the violent overthrow of Iraq's British-backed monarchy - may well be the historical reference Iraqis themselves use, the United States and its allies would be well advised to review the record of Britain's engagement in Iraq and draw the right lessons from it. In this timely monograph, contributing historians and military affairs experts provide much-needed context to the ambitious U.S. effort to reconstruct and transform postwar Iraq."--Jacket.