01798pam a22002774a 45000010008000000030008000080050017000160080041000330100017000740200028000910350023001190350017001420400036001590420008001950430030002030500027002330820022002601000024002822450083003062600074003893000064004635040051005275200854005786500043014327000045014754196039BD-DhUL20201101121602.0030710s2003    mauabf   b    001 0 eng    a  2003056668  a0674012801 (alk. paper)  a(OCoLC)ocm52602814  a(NNC)4196039  aDLCcDLCdYDXdOrLoB-BdBD-DhUL  apcc  an-us---aap-----aa-iq---00aDS79.724.U6bM874 200300a956.7044222bMUI1 aMurray, Williamson.14aThe Iraq war :ba military history /cWilliamson Murray, Robert H. Scales, Jr.  aCambridge, Mass. :bBelknap Press of Harvard University Press,c2003.  a312 p., [48] p. of plates :bcol. ill., col. maps ;c22 cm.  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.1 a"The Iraq War puts the recent conflict into context. Drawing on their extensive military expertise, the authors assess the opposing aims of the Coalition forces and the Iraqi regime and explain the day-to-day tactical and logistical decisions of infantry and air command, as British and American troops moved into Basra and Baghdad. They simultaneously step back to examine long-running debates within the U.S. Defense Department about the proper uses of military power and probe the strategic implications of those debates for America's buildup to this war. Surveying the immense changes that have occurred in America's armed forces between the Gulf conflicts of 1991 and 2003 - changes in doctrine as well as weapons - this volume reveals critical meanings and lessons about the new "American way of war" as it has unfolded in Iraq."--BOOK JACKET. 0aPersian Gulf War, 1991zUnited States.1 aScales, Robert H.,d1944-4Joint Author.