Iraqi Security Forces: A Strategy for Success

by Anthony H. Cordesman

This volume documents both the initial mistakes and the changes in U.S. policy that now offer real hope of success in Iraq. Although the United States understood neither the strategic situation in Iraq, nor the value of Iraqi military, security, and police forces in fighting the growing insurgency, the country undertook a series of policy changes in June 2004 that may well correct these mistakes and create the kind of Iraqi forces that are vital...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275989089
• ISBN13: 9780275989088
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 7.0" x 9.5"