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Nights in the pink motel : an American strategist's pursuit of peace in Iraq / / Robert Earle



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Autore: Earle Robert Visualizza persona
Titolo: Nights in the pink motel : an American strategist's pursuit of peace in Iraq / / Robert Earle Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Annapolis, Maryland : , : Naval Institute Press, , 2008
©2008
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (277 p.)
Disciplina: 956.7044/31
Soggetto topico: Iraq War, 2003-2011
Democracy - Iraq
Insurgency - Iraq
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Table of Contents; 1. When Do We Die? ; 2. Running Irish ; 3. The Darkness Hiding Behind the Light ; 4. Over to Us Now ; 5. Fix What''s Broke and Break What Ain''t; 6. The Red Cell ; 7. The Difference Between Insurgency and Terrorism ; 8. Getting People to Understand Democracy ; 9. Suboptimal Facts; 10. Double Vision ; 11. Strangeness and Captain Justice ; 12. Brother Death ; 13. Ali Baba Had a Cave; 14. What It Comes Down To, Sirt, Is Will ; 15. That Could Be Serious ; 16. I''m Kip ; 17. Night Journey ; 18. Not a Place I Want to Be ; 19. Slices of Cold White Butter
20. The Bullet''s Still in the Air21. Medicine Thief ; 22. When Are You Coming Back, Bozo? ; 23. It''s Gotten Rougher Since You''ve Been Gone ; 24. The Pink Motel ; 25. The Casey Group ; 26. The Second Casey Group ; 27. Democracy Remains Possible in Iraq, But. . . ; 28. The Insurgency Will Keep Attacking ; 29. One More Time ; 30. The Sugar; 31. Ivy Day in the Committee Room ; 32. Looking at Another Very Tough Year ; 33. Melancholy Moralism ; 34. The Pecking Order of Tikrit ; 35. Washington Comes A-Calling ; 36. Why Can''t You Work Out Your Problems on Your Own?; 37. More than Friends
38. Triangle of Death 39. What Exactly Is a Director of National Intelligence? ; 40. Between the Moon and the Palms of the Middle East ; Selected Readings ; Index ; About the Author
Sommario/riassunto: Nights in the Pink Motel is the first historical account of the strategic process that sought to reverse the negative consequences of the U.S.-led occupation of Iraq. It offers details and insights into the Iraqi insurgency and Coalition counterinsurgency available nowhere else. This book is a sustained, comprehensive account of all the conflicting factors that have made Iraq such an intractable international crisis and offers an intriguing narrative of how the American-led Coalition returned sovereignty to Iraq in June 2004, while defending Iraq''s fledgling interim government against a risin
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ISBN: 1-61251-882-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910813239503321
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