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Autore |
Folsom Seth W. B. <1972-> |
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In the gray area [[electronic resource] ] : a Marine advisor team in Iraq / / Seth W. B. Folsom |
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Annapolis, Md., : Naval Institute Press, 2010 |
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1-283-04962-7 |
9786613049629 |
1-61251-011-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (224 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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Iraq War, 2003-2011 |
Military assistance, American - Iraq |
Electronic books. |
Iraq Armed Forces Training of |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Prologue : nightmare -- Advisor duty -- Contractors -- Training -- Gear -- Transit -- Cop south -- Arrival -- Humvees -- Introductions -- IAs -- Growing pains -- Storms -- Outside the wire -- Matters of importance -- Backing the wrong horse -- Al Gabaa -- Mistakes and mistrust -- Eye-opening reality -- Jibab Peninsula -- Personalities and paradigms -- Terps and tensions -- Uglat il Bushab -- Fear and paranoia -- Gifts and free lunches -- Abandonment issues -- Running out of patience -- Holding down the spring -- Critters -- A change of plans -- Leaving -- Dogs -- A way forward. |
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In the Gray Area builds on Seth Folsom's earlier award-winning memoir, The Highway War, which described his 2003 command of one of the first Marine light armored reconnaissance battalion companies to march on Baghdad. In February 2008, he was deployed to Iraq again as the leader of a U.S. Marine advisor team embedded with an Iraqi army infantry battalion. In this new work, Folsom frankly addresses the realities of the Marines' mission as he reflects on challenges they and their Iraqi counterparts faced in their struggle to gain control of al-Anbar province. He explores the bonds he |
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