The Lost Caravan: The Rise and Fall of Al Qaeda in Iraq, 2003-2007

by Naval Postgraduate School

In 2006, a coalition intelligence report was writing off portions of Iraq as being lost to the control of the U.S.-led coalition and the government of Iraq. Al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI)-a local manifestation of a transnational movement-was at its peak, while the U.S.-led coalition was attempting to remove itself from the Hobbesian violence raging throughout the country in the forms of a civil war and an insurgency. Yet, within a year, AQI was a mere shadow...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1499543174
• ISBN13: 9781499543179
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.5" x 11.0"