From storm to freedom
Subtitle: America's long war with Iraq
By: John R. Ballard.
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Annapolis, Md
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781591140184
Subjects: Persian Gulf War, 1991 -- United States; Iraq War, 2003- -- United States; United States -- Foreign relations -- Iraq; Iraq -- Foreign relations -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prelude : American military power in the Post-Vietnam Era, 1975-1989; title: The decision to go to war; title: The Iraqi context; title: Desert Shield : the line in the sand; title: Desert Storm : the 1991 Gulf War campaign; title: Interregnum : Iraq and United Nations sanctions in the late 1990s; title: Turning back to war; title: Iraqi freedom : execution of the initial thrust; title: The lost year of the coalition provisional authority; title: The Casey strategy, from Fallujah to Tal Afar; title: 2006 : decent into chaos; title: The protection strategy and the 2007 Baghdad surge; title: The Iraqis take control; title: A final assessment : the impact of the long war with Iraq.