Iraq in wartime : soldiering, martyrdom, and remembrance / Dina Rizk Khoury, The George Washington University, Washington, DC. Khoury, Dina Rizk. Politics and war Iraq History 20th century. War and society Iraq History 20th century. Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988 Political aspects Iraq. Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988 Social aspects Iraq. Persian Gulf War, 1991 Political aspects Iraq. Persian Gulf War, 1991 Social aspects Iraq. 956.7044 23 KHI Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-270) and index. "When US-led forces invaded Iraq in 2003, they occupied a country that had been at war for 23 years. Yet in their attempts to understand Iraqi society and history, few policy makers, analysts and journalists took into account the profound impact that Iraq's long engagement with war had on the Iraqis' everyday engagement with politics, the business of managing their daily lives, and their cultural imagination. Drawing on government documents and interviews, Dina Rizk Khoury traces the political, social and cultural processes of the normalization of war in Iraq during the last twenty-three years of Ba'thist rule. Khoury argues that war was a form of everyday bureaucratic governance and examines the Iraqi government's policies of creating consent, managing resistance and religious diversity, and shaping public culture. Coming on the tenth anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq, this book tells a multilayered story of a society in which war has become the norm"-- Provided by publisher. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013. 2013. 2013 Text xviii, 281 pages : eng Iraq Politics and government 1979-1991. Iraq Iraq Iraq. Iraq. Iraq. Iraq.