Hearts and mines
Subtitle: with the Marines in Al Anbar : a story of psychological warfare in Iraq
By: Russell Snyder
Publisher: Casemate
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Havertown, PA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
ISBN-13: 9781612001050
Subjects: Psychological warfare; United States; American Personal narratives; Psychological aspects; Iraq War, 2003-2011; History; United States. Marine Corps. Marine Division, 2nd. Battalion, 2nd; United States. Marine Corps; Campaigns; United States. Army. Psychological Operations Battalion, 9th; United States. Marine Corps. Marines, 25th. Battalion, 3rd; Biography
Description: "These are my memories of life as a member of one of the United States Army's three-man Tactical Psychological Operations Teams (TPTs). While attached in support of the U.S. Marine Corps' Third Battalion, Second Marines, and Third Battalion, Twenty-Fifth Marines, operating along the Euphrates river valley in western Iraq's Anbar desert during the spring and summer of 2005, I witnessed what was at the time some of the most vicious counterinsurgency fighting of Operation Iraqi Freedom since Fallujah. I do not claim to be a historian, or even to have been privy to the big picture of the war reserved for the generals and their staff. Nothing I did was heroic or changed the course of history or any battle. Mine was the perspective of a low-ranking sergeant, isolated from the media's reports and influenced by the stresses of fatigue, fear, and moral uncertainty. ... But as for the memories of one soldier who was there, what follows is what really happened."--Preface, p. 12