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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Cordesman, Anthony H. Iraqi security forces. Westport, Conn. : Praeger Security International, 2006 (OCoLC)607769784 |
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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Anthony H Cordesman; Patrick Baetjer; Center for Strategic and International Studies (Washington, D.C.) |
| ISBN: | 0275989089 9780275989088 |
| OCLC Number: | 63390373 |
| Notes: | "Published in cooperation with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, D.C." |
| Description: | xxvi, 410 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | The importance of the initial failures in grand strategy and strategic assessment: the background to the effort to create effective Iraqi military, security, and police forces -- The growth and character of the insurgent threat -- Coalition training and equipment efforts: the failures of 2003 -- Failing to deliver an adequate training and equipment program through the tenure of the CPA and mid-2004 -- The fall of 2004: the effort to train Iraqi military, security, and police forces slowly begins to gather momentum -- The status of Iraqi forces in November 2004 -- End of 2004 as a benchmark: trends in the progress of Iraqi security and military forces in December 2004 -- The run up to elections: Iraqi security and military forces in January 2005 -- Iraqi military and security forces in the Spring and Summer of 2005. The Iraqi view of Iraq's emerging forces -- The evolving nature of the insurgency and the risk of sectarian and ethnic conflict -- Building the future. |
| Responsibility: | Anthony H. Cordesman ; with the assistance of Patrick Baetjer. |
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<p>""Iraqi Security Forces: A Strategy for SuccesS" chronicles the initial mistakes and changes of US policy with respect to the creation and training of a competent Iraqi security apparatus. Cordesman highlights the policy changes intiated in June 2004, which aimed to correct these past mistakes and to pave the way for the reduction and eventual withdrawal of Coalition forces from Iraq. The author sets out a number of US policy prescriptions that he believes, if applied consistently and with the necessary resouces, could help to stabilize Iraq." - <p>Middle East Journal Read more...
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