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The Strongest Tribe: War, Politics, and the Endgame in Iraq
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Binding: Kindle Edition
Dewey Decimal Number: 956.70443
Format: Kindle Book
Label: Random House
Manufacturer: Random House
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 448
Publication Date: August 12, 2008
Publisher: Random House
Release Date: August 12, 2008
Studio: Random House
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From a universally respected combat journalist, a gripping history based on five years of front-line reporting about how the war was turned around-and the choice now facing America During the fierce battle for Fallujah, Bing West asked an Iraqi colonel why the archterrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi had fled in women-s clothes. The colonel pointed to a Marine patrol walking by and said, -Americans are the strongest tribe.- In Iraq, America made mistake after mistake. Many gave up on the war. Then the war took a sharp U-turn. Two generals-David Petraeus and Raymond Odierno-displayed the leadership America expected. Bringing the reader from the White House to the fighting in the streets, this remarkable narrative explains the turnaround by U.S. forces. In the course of fourteen extended trips over five years, West embedded with more than sixty front-line units, discussing strategy with generals and tactics with corporals. He provides an expert-s account of counterinsurgency, disposing of myths. By describing the characters and combat in city after city, West gives the reader an in-depth understanding that will inform the debate about the war. This is the definitive study of how American soldiers actually fought -a gripping and visceral book that changes the way we think about the war, and essential reading for understanding the next critical steps to be taken.
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Rating: - Will American Remain the Strongest Tribe?
The Strongest Tribe is likely the best military and political history so far available on the Iraq war, and Bing West is also likely the most qualified person to write this history. Mr. West is a former infantry officer with the Marine Corps in Vietnam, where he learned first hand the lessons of counterinsurgency serving in combined action platoons in the second half of that war, an assistant secretary of defense in the Reagan administration, and as someone who has been to Iraq at least 14 times ... Read More
Rating: - Excellent book
Bing West's The Strongest Tribe is a balanced and insightful examination of the US involvement in Iraq. It is a must read for any student of recent political and military history. I would recommend this book to anyone concerned about our global role and the role of the valiant US military.
Rating: - Boots on the Ground
Bing West's latest, THE STRONGEST TRIBE:WAR, POLITICS, AND THE END GAME IN IRAQ, gives a year by year "Boots on the Ground" view of the war in Iraq. Normally, I am reluctant to read history in real time but I took a chance with West's latest. This was a good decision. Rather than the view from Washington or the Green Zone, West clearly brings the war to the reading public from the ground up. Vietnam is compared to the present conflict with regard to lessons learned. West's background from his ... Read More
Rating: - A "fiendishly complex war" made understandable
The author, a counterinsurgency expert, documents the "hundred things" that had to be done by the Marines and the Army to turn around a war that was declared lost by Senator Harry Reid. The fiendish complexity is explained province by province battle by battle. And how this complexity had to be dealt with from the bottom-up with bribes, Iraqi partners, barriers and many more tactics like that that made the turn around possible. But the turn around is reversible. On page 375 Bing West suggests a pullout ... Read More
Rating: - Superb, clear and powerful!
This is a book all Americans need to read. Our popular media has so oversimplified and sensationalized the Iraq war that most Americans do not understand what "victory" could look like. If you read this book you will be able to understand the real daily basis of the conflict(s). You will also be able to visualize a productive outcome after all of our national sacrifice.
Bing West describes in powerful detail the heart, soul and intellect of the U.S. soldier. You will be proud to know that ... Read More
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