Böcker av Michael Fitzsimmons

With the last departure of U.S. combat forces fromIraq in 2011 and a drawdown in Afghanistan alreadyunderway, the current era of American counterinsurgencymay be coming to a close. At the same time, irregularthreats to U.S. national interests remain, andthe future may hold yet more encounters with insurgentsfor the U.S. military. Accordingly, the latestDefense strategic guidance has called on the Departmentof Defense (DoD) to "retain and continue toreine the lessons learned, expertise, and specializedcapabilities" from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. This monograph is a contribution to this ongoingeffort to institutionalize the military's understandingof counterinsurgency, building on its hard-won recentexperience. Michael Fitzsimmons examines two casestudies drawn from some of the darkest months ofconlict in Iraq...