Innovation, transformation, and war
Subtitle: counterinsurgency operations in Anbar and Ninewa, Iraq, 2005-2007
By: James A. Russell
Publisher: Stanford Security Studies
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9780804773096; 9780804773102
Subjects: Counterinsurgency; Tactics; Iraq War, 2003-; Armed Forces
Description: Through extensive field research and interviews with military and civilian personnel of all ranks, this book shows how a group of Army and Marine Corps units successfully innovated in an unprecedented way: from the bottom up as well as from the top down.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Theories of military innovation; title: Wartime innovation in western Anbar, Fall 05-Summer 06; title: Wartime innovation in Anbar : the battle for Ramadi, July 2005-March 2007; title: Wartime innovation in Ninewa Province : COIN operations in northern Iraq, September 2005-July 2006.