Victory Undone
eBook - ePub

Victory Undone

The Defeat of al-Qaeda in Iraq and Its Resurrection as ISIS

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Victory Undone

The Defeat of al-Qaeda in Iraq and Its Resurrection as ISIS

About this book

Here is a dramatic, first-person account of how the United States won the war in Iraq, only to see the peace lost by an unengaged administration, with Iraqis terrorized and the new "caliph" of ISIS promising, "I'll see you in New York."Military contractor Carter Andress was the ultimate boots-on-the-ground "civilian" in Iraq. While reporters, aid workers, diplomats, and even U.S. soldiers were often cut off from the "ground truth" in Iraq by the blast walls protecting the Green Zone and our bases, Andress was in the thick of things: driving through insurgent-infested territory, negotiating with hostile tribes, and witnessing the transformation of Iraq from chaos and violence to a stable multi-ethnic, multi-sectarian democracy that needed only minimal American support to defend itself - support, however, that thanks to the Obama administration was not forthcoming.A page-turner of a story, but also an incredibly important account of what actually happened in the Iraq War and afterwards, Victory Undone is a book every American needs to read.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. FOREWORD
  7. 1. THE BEGINNING OF THE END FOR AL-QAEDA IN IRAQ
  8. 2. THE AWAKENING JOINS THE IRAQI SECURITY SERVICES
  9. 3. THE ULTIMATE COUNTERINSURGENTS
  10. 4. BACK TO FALLUJAH: CONTRACTORS TAKE THE LEAD
  11. 5. THE SURGE
  12. 6. BLACKWATER
  13. 7. THE TIPPING POINT
  14. 8. SADDAM’S YELLOWCAKE
  15. 9. THE RAID
  16. 10. “DEATH TO AL-QAEDA!”
  17. 11. THE OILFIELDS
  18. 12. THE LAST OF THE OCCUPIERS
  19. 13. THE ARAB SPRING
  20. 14. AFGHANISTAN: HOW NOT TO DO IT
  21. 15. CONTRACTORS AT WAR
  22. 16. AFTER-ACTION REVIEW
  23. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  24. NOTES
  25. BIBLIOGRAPHY
  26. INDEX