Surge my journey with General David Petraeus and the remaking of the Iraq War

Using newly declassified documents, interviews, and published sources, a member of General David Petraeus' personal staff provides an insider account of the troop surge in Iraq and how key political leaders orchestrated it

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mansoor, Peter R. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven, CT Yale University Press 2013
Series:Yale library of military history
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Table of Contents:
  • Maps
  • Prologue Baghdad, February 11, 2007
  • A war almost lost
  • Designing the surge
  • Fardh Al-Qanoon
  • Tower 57
  • The awakening
  • Turning the tide
  • Testimony
  • Power politics
  • Charge of the knights
  • The surge in retrospect
  • Appendix 1: Report to Congress on the situation in Iraq
  • Appendix 2: Multi-national force
  • Iraq commander's counterinsurgency guidance
  • Appendix 3: Anaconda strategy versus Al-Qaeda in Iraq
  • Appendix 4: Security incidents in Iraq