1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910818097203321

Autore

Cottam Martha L.

Titolo

Confronting al Qaeda : the Sunni awakening and American strategy in al Anbar / / Martha L. Cottam and Joe W. Huseby ; with Bruno Baltodano

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

1-4422-6486-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (159 p.)

Disciplina

956.7044/342

Soggetti

Iraq War, 2003-2011 - Campaigns - Iraq - Anbār (Province)

Counterinsurgency - Iraq - Anbār (Province)

Anbār (Iraq : Province) Politics and government 2003-

Iraq Military relations United States

United States Military relations Iraq

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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Sommario/riassunto

Based on in-depth interviews with tribal Sheiks involved in the Awakening and their American military counterparts, Confronting al Qaeda is a study of decision-making processes and the political psychology of the Sunni Awakening in al Anbar. It traces the change in American military strategy that made the Awakening collaboration between the Sunni tribes and the U.S. forces possible. It explains how the evolution of the tribal leaders' perspective and of the American military strategy led to defeat al Qaeda in al Anbar. The process of these changing mutual images is detailed as well as how the



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910737391003321

Autore

Sun Cecile Chu-chin

Titolo

Pearl from the dragon's mouth : evocation of scene and feeling in Chinese poetry / / Cecile Chu-chin Sun

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor, Michigan : , : University of Michigan Press, , 1995

ISBN

9780472127405

0472127403

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvi, 248 pages)

Collana

Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies ; ; no. 67

Disciplina

895.1/1008

Soggetti

Chinese poetry - History and criticism

Nature in literature

Emotions in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [227]-238) and index.