01851pam a22003014a 4500 4196039 BD-DhUL 20201101121602.0 030710s2003 mauabf b 001 0 eng 2003056668 0674012801 (alk. paper) (OCoLC)ocm52602814 (NNC)4196039 DLC DLC YDX OrLoB-B BD-DhUL pcc n-us--- ap----- a-iq--- DS79.724.U6 M874 2003 956.7044 22 MUI Murray, Williamson. The Iraq war : a military history / Williamson Murray, Robert H. Scales, Jr. Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003. 312 p., [48] p. of plates : col. ill., col. maps ; 22 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. "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. Persian Gulf War, 1991 United States. Scales, Robert H., 1944- Joint Author. ddc BK 90898 90898 0 0 ddc 0 956_704400000000000_MUI 0 NFIC 151820 DUL DUL GEN 2016-07-31 Purchased 956.7044 MUI 477491 2016-07-31 2016-07-31 BK