Iraq Wars Bibliography

General and Miscellaneous

U.S. Policy: Overall

Iraq

The Iran-Iraq War, and U.S. Involvement in It

The First U.S. - Iraq War: Desert Shield and Desert Storm (1990-1991)

Iraq Between the Two American Wars

The Second U.S. - Iraq War (2003- )

 

General and Miscellaneous

Ali A. Allawi, The Crisis of Islamic Civilization. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. xvi, 304 pp.

Mark Allen, Arabs. Continuum, 2006. v, 145 pp.

Philip Auerswald, ed., Iraq, 1990-2006: A Diplomatic History through Documents. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. 3 vols.

Christiane Bird, A Thousand Sighs, a Thousand Revolts: Journeys in Kurdistan. New York: Ballantine, 2004. pb New York: Random House, 2005. 448 pp. Regional, not specifically Iraqi Kurdistan.

Juan Cole, Sacred Space and Holy War: The Politics, Culure and History of Shi’ite Islam. London: I.B. Tauris, 2002. viii, 254 pp.

Gwynne Dyer, After Iraq: Anarchy and Renewal in the Middle East. Thomas Dunne Books, 2008. 267 pp.

Robert Fisk, The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East. New York: Knopf, 2005. xxii, 1111 pp. The 2003 war in Iraq, plus a lot of other recent history. Very critical of the US.
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Graham E. Fuller and Rend Rahim Francke, The Arab Shi’a: The Forgotten Muslims. New York: St. Martin’s, 1999. pb New York: Palgrave, 2001. x, 290 pp.

Chinmaya R. Gharekhan, The Horseshoe Table: An Inside View of the UN Security Council. Longman, 2006. 328 pp. Ghareknan, an Indian diplomat, worked in or with the United Nations for many years. Includes significant discussion of the 1990-91 crisis; I dont' know whether it also deals with 2003.

William Hale, Turkey, the US and Iraq. Interlink Publishing Group, 2007. 200 pp. Covers the relationships from the 1920s onward.

Faleh A. Jabar and Hosham Dawod, eds., Tribes and Power: Nationalism and Ethnicity in the Middle East. pb Saqi Books, 2003. 360 pp.

Wadie Jwaideh, The Kurdish National Movement: Its Origins and Development. Shyracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2006. xx, 419 pp.

John Kelsay, Arguing the Just War in Islam. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007. 263 pp.

John Kelsay, Islam And War: A Study In Comparative Ethics. Louisville, Ky.: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1993. ix, 149 pp. Apparently has a particular focus on Saddam Hussein's use of religious justifications for his policies.

John Kelsay And James Turner Johnson, eds., Just War And Jihad: Historical And Theoretical Perspectives On War And Peace In Western And Islamic Traditions. New York: Greenwood Press, 1991. xvi, 254 pp.

Laurence Louër, Transnational Shia Politics: Religious and Political Networks in the Gulf. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008. 256 pp.

Mehdi Khalaji, The Last Marja: Sistani and the End of Traditional Religious Authority in Shiism. Washington, D.C.: The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 2006. vi, 37 pp. Can be downloaded from the Institute's web page.

David McDowall, A Modern History of the Kurds, rev. ed. London: I.B. Tauris, 2000. xii, 515 pp.

Kevin McKiernan, Kurds: A People in Search of Their Homeland. New York: St. Martin’s, 2006. 390 pp. By a free-lance war correspondent.

David M. Malone, The International Struggle Over Iraq: Politics in the UN Security Council 1980-2005. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. xiv, 398 pp. Malone is a former Canadian ambassador to the UN.

Hugh Miles, Al Jazeera: The Inside Story of the Arab News Channel that is Challenging the West. New York: Grove Press, 2005. 438 pp.

Moojan Momen, An Introduction to Shi'i Islam. New Haven, 1985. This is supposed to be very good.

Tamar Morad, Dennis Shasha, and Robert Shasha, eds., Iraq’s Last Jews: Stories of Daily Life, Upheaval, and Escape from Modern Babylon. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. 256 pp. Oral history.

Morris M. Motale, The Origins of the Gulf Wars. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2001. 224 pp.

Yitzhak Nakash, Reaching for Power: The Shi’a in the Modern Arab World. Princeton University Press, 2006. xiii, 226 pp. Particular attention to Iraq and Lebanon.

Vali Nasr, The Shia Revival: How Conflicts Within Islam Will Shape the Future. New York: Norton, 2006. 304 pp. Check library gets.

Denise Natali, Kurds and the State: Evolving National Identity in Iraq, Turkey, and Iran. Syracuse University Press, 2005.

Mohammed el-Nawawy and Adel Iskandar, Al-Jazeera: The Story of the Network that is Rattling Governments and Redefining Modern Journalism. Boulder: Westview, 2003. xii, 240 pp. Paperback reprint, probably without significant modifications, of Al Jazeera: How the Free Arab News Network Scooped the World and Changed the Middle East. Boulder: Westview, 2002. 240 pp.

Robert A. Pape, Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism. New York: Random House, 2005. 335 pp.

Nicolas Pelham, A New Muslim Order: The Shia and the Middle East Sectarian Crisis. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2008. xv, 272 pp. Mostly Iraq, but includes discussion of other countries.

Stephen Pelletière, America’s Oil Wars. New York: Praeger, 2004. 208 pp. Pelletière was the CIA’s senior political analyst on Iraq during the 1980s.

Stephen Pelletière, Iraq and the International Oil System: Why America Went to War in the Gulf. Greenwood, 2001. 239 pp. pb Maisonneuve Press, 2004. 250 pp. The topic is much broader—a long-term history of U.S. oil policy—than the title suggests.

Stephen C. Pelletière, Kurds: An Unstable Element in the Gulf. Boulder: Westview, 1984. 250 pp.

Kenneth M. Pollack, Arabs at War: Military Effectiveness, 1948-1991. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. xv, 698 pp.

David Romano, The Kurdish Nationalist Movement: Opportunity, Mobilization and Identity. Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Debra Lois Shulman, "Regime Strategy and Foreign Policy in Autocracies: Egypt, Jordan, and Syria in the Gulf Wars." Ph.D. dissertation, Yale, 2008. 288 pp. AAT 3342676.

Bertram Wyatt-Brown, "Honor, Hatred, and America's Middle East in Historical and Comparative Perspective," Clio's Psyche, 10:3 (2003), pp. 80-84.

Bertram Wyatt-Brown, "Honor in National Crises: Civil War, Vietnam, and Iraq," Journal of the Historical Society, December 2006, pp. 431-60.

Mohamed Zayani, ed., The Al Jazeera Phenomenon: Critical Perspectives on New Arab Media. Paradigm, 2005. 224 pp.

Mohamed Zayani and Sofiane Sahraoui, The Culture of Al Jazeera: Inside an Arab Media Giant. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2007. 206 pp.

 

U.S. Policy: Overall

Gerald Astor, Presidents at War: From Truman to Bush, the Gathering of Military Powers To Our Commanders in Chief. Wiley, 2006.

Andrew J. Bacevich, The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. xvi, 270 pp. Paperback with a new afterword by the author: New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.

Andrew J. Bacevich, The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism. New York: Metropolitan Books (Henry Holt), 2008. 206 pp.

James Bamford, The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA From 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America. Doubleday, 2009. 395 pp.

Eyal Benvenisti, The International Law of Occupation. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993. vi, 241 pp. Paperback with a new preface by the author: Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004. xviii, 241 pp. Traces actual practice from WWI onward, not just law.

Adam J. Berinsky, In Time of War: Understanding American Public Opinion from World War II to Iraq. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. 360 pp.

Zbigniew Brzezinski, Second Chance: Three Presidents and the Crisis of American Superpower. Basic Books, 2007. 234 pp. Bush I, Clinton, Bush II. Very critical of Bush II.

David Cloud and Greg Jaffe, The Fourth Star: Four Generals and the Epic Struggle for the Future of the United States Army. New York: Crown Publishers (Random House), 2009. 330 pp. John Abizaid, George Casey Jr., Peter Chiarelli, and David Petraeus. This is said to be very good.

Andrew Cockburn, Rumsfeld: His Rise, Fall, and Catastrophic Legacy. New York: Scribner, vii, 247 pp.

John Davis, ed., Presidential Policies and the Road to the Second Iraq War: From Forty One to Forty Three. Ashgate, 2006. 326 pp.

Midge Decter, Rumsfeld: A Personal Portrait. New York: ReganBooks/HarperCollins, 2003. xii, 220 pp. Apparently a pretty worshipful biography.

Karen DeYoung, Soldier: The Life of Colin Powell. New York: Knopf, 2006. 610 pp.

John M. Diamond, The CIA and the Culture of Failure: U.S. Intelligence from the End of the Cold War to the Invasion of Iraq. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008. 536 pp.

Tyler Drumheller, On the Brink: An Insider’s Account of How the White House Compromised American Intelligence. Carroll & Graf, 2006. 304 pp. Drumheller was chief of clandestine operations for Europe from 2001 until his retirement from the CIA in 2005.

Helen Duffy, The ‘War on Terror’ and the Framework of International Law. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. li, 488 pp. According to the H-Diplo review by Daniel Margolies (3/8/07), Duffy really does match the right-wing stereotype of liberals who don’t want a vigorous effort against Al Qaeda; thinks it was not legitimate to go into Afghanistan after 9/11.

Executive Power and Its Constitutional Limitations. Hearing, July 25, 2008, House Committee on the Judiciary. iv, 466 pp. Serial No. 110-200.

Foreign Policy Bulletin: The Documentary Record of United States Foreign Policy. Quarterly, Cambridge University Press. Online since 2005 at http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=FPB&bVolume=y

Foreign Relations of the United States. Massive collections of documents, indexed, supposed to be published by the State Department about thirty years after the events.
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Long War Occasional Papers / Global War on Terrorism Occasional Papers (Ft. Leavenworth, KS: Combat Studies Institute Press)

Philip Gordon, Winning the Right War: The Path to Security for America and the World. New York: Times Books, 2007. Argues that the United States should apply a strategy against Islamic radicalism that looks more like containment than what the Bush administration has been doing.

Bradley Graham, By His Own Rules: The Ambitions, Successes, and Ultimate Failures of Donald Rumsfeld. New York: PublicAffairs, 2009. viii, 803 pp. Graham covered Rumsfeld as a military affairs correspondent for the Washington Post.

Suman Gupta, Theory and Reality of Democracy: A Case Study in Iraq. Continuum International Publishing, 2006. 234 pp. New edition pb Continuum International Publishing, 2007. 244 pp. I get an impression this is probably not much about Iraq, more about US policy and rhetoric. But I have not actually seen the book, and I am not sure.

Richard N. Haass, War of Necessity, War of Choice: A Memoir of Two Iraq Wars. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009. 336 pp. Haass was on the National Security Council staff 1989-1993, and was director of policy planning at the State Department 2001-2003.

David Halberstam, War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, and the Generals. New York: Scribners, 2001. 543 pp.

Howard M. Hensel [Air War College], ed., The Law of Armed Conflict. Ashgate, 2007. 280 pp.

Dale R. Herspring, Rumsfeld’s Wars: The Arrogance of Power. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2008. xxiv, 247 pp.

Eric Hobsbawm, On Empire: America, War, and Global Supremacy. The New Press, 2009. 128 pp. A scathing critique of what Hobsbawm sees as U.S. efforts to dominate the world.

William G. Howell and Jon C. Pevehouse, While Dangers Gather: Congressional Checks on Presidential War Powers. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. xxvi, 333 pp. My impression is that this is pretty theoretical; the table of contents does not show any chapter devoted to a particular incident or episode.

Jack Huberman, The Bush-Hater’s Handbook: A Guide to the Most Appalling Presidency of the Past 100 Years. New York: Nation Books, 2003. xiv, 337 pp.

Joint Warfare of the Armed Forces of the United States. Joint Publication 1. 14 November 2000.

Fred Kaplan, Daydream Believers: How a Few Grand Ideas Wrecked American Power. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2008. ix, 246 pp.

Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, Making War to Keep Peace. HC, 2007. 384 pp. Published posthumously.

Matt Latimer, Speechless: Tales of a White House Survivor. New York: Crown, 2009. 294 pp. Latimer was a speechwriter first for Rumsfeld, then for George W. Bush.

Adrian Lewis, The American Culture of War: A History of American Military Force from World War II to Operation Iraqi Freedom. New York: Routledge, 2006. 560 pp.

Douglas Little, “Mission Impossible: The CIA and the Cult of Covert Action in the Middle East.” Diplomatic History 28:5 (Nov 2004), pp. 663-701.

Marcus Mabry, Twice as Good: Condoleezza Rice and Her Path to Power. Rodale, 2007. 360 pp.

James Mann, Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush’s War Cabinet. New York: Viking, 2004. xix, 426 pp. Rumsfeld, Cheney, Powell, Armitage, Rice, Wolfowitz.

Melani McAlister, Epic Encounters: Culture, Media, and U.S. Interests in the Middle East, 1945-2000. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.

Steven Metz, Iraq & the Evolution of American Strategy. Washington, D.C.: Potomac Books, 2008. xxvi, 262 pp. I have not read this, but it is supposed to be quite good.

Christopher Meyer, DC Confidential: The Controversial Memoirs of Britain’s Ambassador to the U.S. at the Time of 9/11 and the Run-Up to the Iraq War. Phoenix, 2006. 320 pp. The reader reviews on amazon.uk say it is very unrevealing.

Fotios Moustakis and Rudra Chaudhuri, "The Rumsfeld Doctrine and the Cost of US Unilateralism: Lessons Learned." Defense Studies 7 (September 2007), pp. 358-375.

General Richard B. Myers, USAF, Ret., with Malcolm McConnell, Eyes on the Horizon: Serving on the Front Lines of National Security. New York: Threshold Editions (Simon & Schuster), 2009. xii, 339 pp. Myers was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 2001 to 2005.

Marc J. O’Reilly, Unexceptional: America’s Empire in the Persian Gulf, 1941-2007. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books (Rowman & Littlefield), 2008. 368 pp.

Christopher D. O’Sullivan, Colin Powell: American Power and Intervention from Vietnam to Iraq. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2009. xvi, 219 pp.

Stephen C. Pelletière, Landpower and Dual Containment: Rethinking America’s Policy in the Gulf. Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, 1999. 36 pp.

Dennis Perrin, Savage Mules: The Democrats and Endless War. London and New York: Verso, 2008. 118 pp. Argues that the Democratic Party is not nearly so anti-war as it is often supposed to be.

James Risen, State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006. 288 pp. Risen is the NYT reporter who broke the story about NSA’s warrantless wiretapping in late 2005. His revelation of Operation Merlin, giving defective nuclear designs to Iran, looks irresponsible to me.

Peter W. Rodman, Presidential Command: Power, Leadership, and the Making of Foreign Policy from Richard Nixon to George W. Bush. New York: Knopf, 2009 (forthcoming). Rodman was, very unobtrusively (it is surprisingly hard to find his name mentioned in books) Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and NSC Counselor 1987-1990, and then Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs for most of the administration of George W. Bush.

David J. Rothkopf, Running the World: The Inside Story of the National Security Council and the Architects of American Power. New York: Public Affairs, 2005. 554 pp.

David Ryan and Patrick Kiely, eds., America and Iraq: Policy-Making, Intervention and Regional Politics. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2009. Mostly about recent policy, but one essay, by Kenneth Osgood, deals with the U.S. policy toward the Iraqi Revolution of 1958.

Erik Saar and Viveca Novak, Inside the Wire: A Military Intelligence Soldier’s Eyewitness Account of Life at Guantanamo. New York: Penguin, 2005. 292 pp. Saar, a sergeant who had been trained in Arabic, was at Guantanamo December 2002 to June 2003.

David E. Sanger, The Inheritance: The World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American Power. Harmony, 2009. 498 pp. A very critical picture of the foreign policy of George W. Bush, and its consequences, by the Washington correspondent of the New York Times.

Frederick A. O. Schwarz Jr. and Aziz Z. Huq, Unchecked and Unbalanced: Presidential Power in a Time of Terror. The New Press, 2007. 276 pp.

Ofira Seliktar, The Politics of Intelligence and American Wars with Iraq. Palgrave, 2008. x, 214 pp. My impression is that this is very theoretical, and deals more with academics and public intellectuals than with intelligence agencies.
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James R. Silkenat and Mark R. Shulman, eds., The Imperial Presidency and the Consequences of 9/11: Lawyers React to the Global War on Terrorism. 2 vols. Westport: Praeger, 2007. 520 pp.

Philip Smith, Why War? The Cultural Logic of Iraq, the Gulf War, and Suez. University of Chicago Press, 2005. x, 254 pp.

Richard Sobel, The Impact of Public Opinion on U.S. Foreign Policy Since Vietnam: Constraining the Colossus. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. xii, 276 pp.

Lewis D. Solomon, Paul D. Wolfowitz: Visionary Intellectual, Policymaker, and Strategist. Westport: Praeger, 2007. 216 pp.

Ron Suskind, The One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America’s Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006. xi, 367 pp. A lot of focus on Cheney.

John B. Taylor, Global Financial Warriors: The Untold Story of International Finance in the Post-9/11 World. New York: Norton, 2007. xxv, 324 pp. Taylor was Under Secretary for International Affairs at the Treasury Department. Covers crackdown on Al Qaeda finance, and financial reconstruction in Afghanistan and Iraq. Said to be laden with factual details. (Convincing defense of shipping billions in cash to Baghdad in author’s Op-ed, NYT, 2/27/07.)

George Tenet, with Bill Harlow, At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA. New York: HarperCollins, 2007. xxii, 549 pp.

Alexander Thompson, Channels of Power: The UN Security Council and U.S. Statecraft in Iraq. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2009. x, 261 pp. Covers both of the US-Iraq wars.

Harlan Ullman and James Wade, Jr., with L.A. Edney, Frederick Franks, Jr., Charles Horner, Jonathan Howe, and Keith Bradley, Shock & Awe: Achieving Rapid Dominance. Washington, D.C.: National Defense University Press, 1996. xxi, 199 pp.

Lynne M. Woehrle, Patrick G. Coy, and Gregory M. Maney, Contesting Patriotism: Culture, Power, and Strategy in the Peace Movement. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008. An analysis of the ways fifteen peace organizations have opposed various U.S. military actions abroad from 1990 to 2005.

Steven Wright, The United States and Persian Gulf Security: The Foundations of the War on Terror. Portland, Oregon: Ithaca Press, 2007. 248 pp.

William D. Wunderle, Through the Lens of Cultural Awareness: A Primer for US Armed Forces Deploying to Arab and Middle Eastern Countries. Fort Leavenworth, KS: Combat Studies Institute Press, 2006. xi, 136 pp.

There are many topics for which the published transcripts of congressional committee hearings can be useful sources. The published transcripts are often accompanied by considerable amounts of documentation, or the documents may even be published without the excuse of a hearing. Transcripts of important committee hearings, if not classified, are usually published by the Government Printing Office (GPO), in Washington.  In the Clemson University Library, these are located on Level 3 (one floor down from where you come in), and usually have call numbers starting with Y 4.

The GPO issues monthly and annual subject indexes to its publications, and you can also do a search of recent ones on the GPO web site.. But for the years from 1970 onward, the index published by the Congressional Information Service (CIS) is better. For each year since 1970 CIS has published two volumes. One, titled Abstracts, has all the hearings published that year, arranged by committee. The other, Index, is the subject index. Look up whatever you are after, such as "Laos" or "Colby, William" in the Index, and you will see a list of items. If one looks as if it might be interesting, look it up in the Abstracts to get a more detailed description, and the call number that will let you find it on the shelf (at least in most cases) two floors up on Level 3. Bear in mind that a hearing held in one year may be published in a later year. (In the Clemson University Library, the CIS volumes have recently been moved down to Room 104, with a sign "Abstracts" by the door, in the back on the lowest floor of the library. The last time I checked, these volumes were in the middle aisle, right side, but I presume the room will soon be reorganized; when that happens, look for them under call number KF 49 .C62. They may be moved again when the current renovation program is completed.)

 

Doctrine on Insurgency and Counterinsurgency

James R. Arnold, Jungle of Snakes: A Century of Counterinsurgency Warfare from the Philippines to Iraq. Bloomsbury Press, 2009. 304 pp.

Thomas A. Bruscino, Jr., Out Of Bounds: Transnational Sanctuary In Irregular Warfare. Global War on Terrorism Occasional Paper 17. Fort Leavenworth, KS: Combat Studies Institute Press, 2006. ix, 109 pp. Deals with two case studies: the U.S. in Vietnam, and the Soviet Union in Afghanistan.

Joseph R. Cerami and Jay W. Boggs, eds., The Interagency and Counterinsurgency Warfare: Stability, Security, Transition, and Reconstruction Roles. Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, 2007. xi, 605 pp.

Warren Chin, "Examining the Application of British Counterinsurgency Doctrine by the American Army in Iraq" Small Wars & Insurgencies 18:1 (March 2007), pp. 1-26.

Counterguerrilla Operations. U.S. Army Field Manual FM 90-8. Washington, DC: GPO, August 1986.

counterinsurgency Operations. U.S. Army Field Manual FM 3-07.22. Washington, DC: GPO, October 2004.

Counterinsurgency. U.S. Army Field Manual FM 3-24 / Marine Corps Warfighting Publication No. 3-33.5. December 2006. Sections paginated separately.

David Galula, Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice. New York: Praeger, 1964. xiv, 143 pp. Reprinted with a new foreword by John A. Nagl: Westport, CT: Praeger Security International, 2006. xviii, 101 pp. This book has been pretty well regarded in the Army recently (see below, under Military Review).

John P. Geis, II, "The meek shall inherit the earth? Why the weak win in asymmetric conflict." Ph.D. dissertation, Political Science, The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2007. xiv, 272 pp. AAT 3278765.

Captain Brian Gellman and Captain Kyle Teamey, "Counterinsurgency 101," Military Intelligence Professional Bulletin 31:2 (April-June 2005), pp. 22-30.
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David Kilcullen, The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. xxviii, 346 pp. Kilcullen, originally an officer of the Australian Army, has been a counterinsurgency advisor to General Petraeus. Two case studies, Afghanistan 2006-8 and Iraq 2007, make up about half the book.

John J. McGrath, Boots on the Ground: Troop Density in Contingency Operations. Global War on Terrorism Occasional Paper 16. Fort Leavenworth, KS: Combat Studies Institute Press, 2006. Iraq is pp. 113-146.

Daniel Marston and Carter Malkasian, eds., Counterinsurgency in Modern Warfare. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. 304 pp. Case studies from the Philippine insurrection to Afghanistan and Iraq.

Steven Metz and Raymond Millen, Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in the 21st Century: Reconceptualizing Threat and Response. Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, November 2004. viii, 43 pp.

Steven Metz, Learning from Iraq: Counterinsurgency in American Strategy. Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, 2007. viii, 127 pp.

Steven Metz, Rethinking Insurgency. Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, 2007. viii, 69 pp.

Military Review. "The Professional Journal of the U.S. Army." Published by the Combined Arms Center, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Recent issues contain quite a lot about the principles of insurgency and counterinsurgency. Some examples are listed here. (Some articles about the specific experience of insurgency and counterinsurgency in Iraq since 2003 are listed below in the section "Post 2003").

Mark Moyar, A Question of Command: Counterinsurgency from the Civil War to Iraq. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009 (forthcoming). 368 pp. Argues that the crucial requirement for success in counterinsurgency is the quality of the officers assigned to the work.

John A. Nagl, Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam: Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife. Westport: Praeger, 2002. xxi, 249 pp. Paperback, with a new preface by Nagl, discussing his September 2003 to September 2004 tour as Operations Officer of the 1/34 Armored, conducting actual counterinsugency in al-Anbar province, Iraq, and the light it shed on the ideas in his book, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. xxix, 249 pp.

RAND Corporation (Previously, Rand Corporation). This "think tank" does a lot of research and analysis work on contract for the Defense Department. Most RAND publications can be purchased in hard copy through the RAND Corporation online bookstore, but many also can be read online for free. Some other RAND Corporation publications on U.S. counterinsurgency efforts in Iraq since 2003 are listed under The Second U.S. - Iraq War.

Jeffrey Record, Beating Goliath: Why Insurgencies Win. Washington, D.C.: Potomac Books, 2007. xii, 180 pp. Considerable discussion of the American way of war.

Stability Operations and Support Operations. U.S. Army Field Manual FM 3-07. Washington, DC: GPO, February 2003.

Colonel Ken Tovo, "From the Ashes of the Phoenix: Lessons for Contemporary Counterinsurgency Operations." Special Warfare Vol. 20, no. 1 (January-February 2007), pp. 6-15.

For older writings on insurgency and counterinsurgency, see the section Theories of Limited War and Counterinsurgency in my Vietnam War Bibliography.

 

Iraq

Thabit A.J. Abdullah, A Short History of Iraq: From 636 to the Present. London & New York: Pearson, 2003. xxii, 234 pp.

Said Aburish, Saddam Hussein: The Politics of Revenge. New York: Bloomsbury, 2000; pb Trafalgar Square, 2001.

Amnesty International, Report and recommendations of an Amnesty International mission to the Government of the Republic of Iraq, 22-28 January 1983: including the Government’s response and Amnesty International comments. London: Amnesty International Publications, 1983. 74 pp.

James R. Arnold, Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. Minneapolis, MN: Twenty-First Century Books (Lerner), 2009. 160 pp. For young readers.

Jafar Pasha Al-Askari, A Soldier's Story: From Ottoman Rule to Independent Iraq: The Memoirs of Jafar Pasha Al-Askari. Arabian Publishing, 2003. 294 pp. Jafar Pasha Al-Askari was an Arab who rose to general in the Ottoman Army before joining the Arab revolt in 1917. He served twice as prime minister of Iraq in the 1920s, under the British mandate, and was minister of defense when he was killed in the coup of 1936.

Henry D. Astarjian, The Struggle for Kirkuk: The Rise of Hussein, Oil, and the Death of Tolerance in Iraq. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2007. xvi, 179 pp. The Iraqi Communist Party and the struggle for control of the oil fields in the Kirkuk area, 1940s and 1950s. By a participant.

Amatzia Baram, Culture, History, and Ideology in the Formation of Ba'thist Iraq, 1968-89. New York: St. Martin's, 1991. xviii, 196 pp.

Orit Bashkin, The Other Iraq: Pluralism and culture in Hashemite Iraq. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009. 376 pp. Covers from the early 1920s to 1958.

Hanna Batatu, The old social classes and the revolutionary movements of Iraq: A study of Iraq’s old landed and commercial classes and of its Communists, Ba'thists, and Free Officers. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1978. xxiv, 1283 pp. London: Saqi Books, 2004. xxiv, 1283 pp.

Gertrude Bell (1868-1926) was an upper-class Englishwoman who was hired by the British government during World War I because she knew Arabic and had extensive knowledge of the Arabs. She played a significant role during the following years, when the British were creating Iraq.

Ofra Bengio, Saddam’s Word: Political Discourse in Iraq. New York: Oxford U.P., 1998. pb 2002. 288 pp.

Lord Birdwood (Christopher Bromhead Birdwood, Baron), Nuri as-Said: A Study in Arab Leadership. London: Cassell, 1959. xi, 306 pp. Nuri as-Said (Nuri al-Sa'id) was an important figure in Iraq from the 1920s up to his death in the military coup of July 1958.

C.H. Bleaney and G.J. Roper, Iraq: A Bibliographical Guide. Brill, 2004. 522 pp.

John Bulloch and Harvey Morris, Saddam's War. Faber & Faber, 1991. 224 pp. Covers Saddam Hussein's political career, and the crisis of 1990-91. Apparently the authors were able to interview Saddam Hussein.

CARDRI (Committee Against Repression and for Democratic Rights in Iraq) (Fran Hazelton, U. Zaher, et al.), Saddam’s Iraq: Revolution or Reaction?, 2d ed. London: Zed Books, 1989. xix, 266 pp.

Nathan J. Citino, "Middle East Cold Wars: Oil and Arab Nationalism in US-Iraqi Relations, 1958-1961. " In Kathryn Statler and Andrew Johns, eds., The Eisenhower Administration, the Third World, and the Globalization of the Cold War, 1953-1961 (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006).

Con Coughlin, Saddam: The Secret Life. London: Macmillan, 2002. xxxiv, 350 pp.

Con Coughlin, Saddam: His Rise and Fall. New York: HarperCollins, 2005. 448 pp.

Uriel Dann, Iraq under Qassem: A Political History, 1958-1963. New York: Praeger, 1969. xvi, 405 pp.

Eric Davis, Memories of State: Politics, History, and Collective Identity in Modern Iraq. Berkeley: U. of California Press, 2004 or 2005. 397 pp.

Adeed Dawisha, Iraq: A Political History from Independence to Occupation. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009. 408 pp. Runs from 1921 to the near-present.

James DeFronzo, The Iraq War: Origins and Consequences. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press (Perseus), 2010. xi, 323 pp. Four chapters on Iraq up to 1990, one on the 1990-91 crises, and five on the US-Iraq War that began in 2003, and its implications and results.

Toby Dodge, Inventing Iraq: The Failure of Nation Building and a History Denied. Columbia University Press, 2003. xix, 260 pp. Seems to focus on the 1920s and maybe 1930s, though I am not certain.

Richard Downes, In Search of Iraq: Baghdad to Babylon. Dublin: New Island, 2006. xviii, 268 pp. pb Boston: Gemma, 2009. xviii, 282 pp. Downes first went to Iraq as a reporter for the BBC in 1998.

Matthew Elliot, 'Independent Iraq': The Monarchy and British Influence, 1941-58. London and Now York: Tauris, 1996. 248 pp.

Elizabeth Warnock Fernia, Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village. Anchor, 1995. 368 pp. Fernia spent two years, in the 1950s, in a village in southern Iraq.

Robert A. Fernea, Shaykh and Effendi: Changing Patterns of Authority Among the El Shabana of Southern Iraq. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1970.

Susan Francis, with Andrew Crofts, Nowhere to Hide: A Mother’s Ordeal in the Killing Fields of Iraq and Kurdistan. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1993. vii, 240 pp. Memoir by an English woman who married an Iraqi in the 1950s. My impression (I have not actually seen the book) is that she lived in Baghdad until after the 1991 war, then fled north to Kurdistan and eventually to England.

Mel Friedman, Iraq. Children's Press, 2009. 48 pp. For juvenile readers.

Peter W. Galbraith, The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War Without End. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006. 260 pp. Main focus is on the Kurds. Galbraith (son of John K. Galbraith) first encountered them as a SFRC staffer; assisted them in 1991; has recently been advising them.

Gerald de Gaury, Three Kings in Baghdad: The Tragedy of Iraq’s Monarchy. London: I.B. Tauris, 2007. 232 pp. The Iraqi monarchy from 1921 to 1958.

Edmund A. Ghareeb, with Beth K. Dougherty, Historical Dictionary of Iraq. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 2004. lxxvi, 459 pp.

Michael Goldfarb, Ahmad’s War, Ahmad’s Peace: Surviving under Saddam, Dying in the New Iraq. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2005. 354 pp. Goldfarb, a British journalist, profiles a Kurd who served as his guide in 2003, who had been a soldier in the Iraqi Army in the 1980s, and was murdered post-2003 for being too secular.
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Naji Al-Hadithi, ed., Iraq 1990: An Official Handbook. Baghdad: Ministry of Information and Culture/Dar al-Ma’mun, 1989. 293 pp.

Aylmer Haldane, The Insurrection in Mesopotamia, 1920. Lt. Gen. Haldane was in charge of putting down the insurrection.

A.M. Hamilton, Road Through Kurdistan: Travels in Northern Iraq. Tauris Parke Paperbacks, 2004. 360 pp. Hamilton arrived in Iraq in 1928 for a major road construction project.

Rupert Hay [W.R. Hay], Two Years in Kurdistan: Experiences of a Political Officer, 1918-1920. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1921. xii, 383 pp. Reprinted several time, most recently as: Paul J. Rich, ed., Iraq and Rupert Hay's Two Years in Kurdistan. Lexington Books, 2008. 288 pp.

The Iraqi Documents: A Glimpse into the Regime of Saddam Hussein. Hearing, April 16, 2006, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, House Committee on International Relations. iii, 39 pp. Serial No. 109-184.

Tareq Y. Ismael, The Rise and Fall of the Communist Party of Iraq. Cambridge University Press, 2008. xi, 338 pp.

Faleh Abdul-Jabar (Faleh Jabar), ed., Ayatollahs, Sufis and Ideologues: State, Religion and Social Movements in Iraq. London: Saqi Books, 2002. 290 pp.

Faleh A. Jabar, The Shi’ite Movement in Iraq. pb London: Saqi Books, 2004. 389 pp.

Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, Princesses’ Street: Baghdad Memories. Trans. by Issa J. Boullata. University of Arkansas Press, 2005. 185 pp. Memoir by an important Palestinian writer of his life in pre-Saddam Baghdad.

Efraim Karsh and Inari Rautsi, Saddam Hussein: A Political Biography. Grove Press, 2002. 320 pp.

Majid Khadduri and Edmund Ghareeb, War in the Gulf 1990-91: The Iraq-Kuwait Conflict and its Implications. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997 (pb 2001). 320 pp.

Sana al-Khayyat, Honour and Shame: Women in Modern Iraq. Saqi Books, 2001. 232 pp.

Francois-Xavier Lovat, Kurdistan Democratic Party. London: G.I.D. Editions, (1999?). 128 pp.

David Little and Donald K. Swearer, eds., Religion and Nationalism in Iraq: A Comparative Perspective. Cambridge, MA: Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University, 2007. 213 pp.

S. McKnight, “Hopeless Gestures: Iraqi Exile Forces since the 1968 Revolution,” in Matthew Bennett and Paul Latawski, eds., Exile Armies (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2004).

Sandra Mackey, The Reckoning: Iraq and the Legacy of Saddam Hussein. New York: Norton, 2002. pb New York: Norton, 2003. 427 pp.

Mohammad Gholi Majd, Iraq in World War I: From Ottoman Rule to British Conquest. University Press of America, 2006. 454 pp.

Kanan Makiya (original ed. under pseudonym Samir al-Khalil), Republic of Fear. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989. Updated ed. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. xxxvi, 323 pp.

Kanan Makiya, Cruelty and Silence: War, Tyranny, Uprising, and the Arab World. New York: Norton, 1993. 367 pp. Denounces the failure of intellectuals to speak out against Saddam Husain.

Ibrahim Al-Marashi and Sammy Salama, Iraq's Armed Forces: An Analytical History. Abingdon and New York: Routledge (Taylor & Francis), 2008. 256 pp. Goes from the 1920s to the U.S. occupation.

Phebe Marr, The Modern History of Iraq, 2d. ed. Boulder: Westview, 2004. xxii, 392 pp.

Henry E. Mattox, A Chronology of United States – Iraqi Relations, 1920 – 2006. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2007.

Gavin Maxwell, A Reed Shaken by the Wind: Travels among the Marsh Arabs of Iraq. Penguin, 1983. Eland Books, 2004. 236 pp.

Helen Chapin Metz, ed., Iraq: A Country Study, 4th ed. Washington, D.C.: Federal Research Division, Library of Congress / Government Printing Office, 1990. xxx, 302 pp.

Middle East Watch, Human Rights in Iraq. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990. xiv, 164 pp.

MidEast Web Bibliography: Iraq.

Yitzhak Nakash, The Shi’is of Iraq. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994. xiv, 312 pp. Re-issued with a new introduction, 2003. Said to be an important book.
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Kevin Noble, and Chris Foote Wood, Baghdad Trucker: Adventures of a Truck Driver. Northern Writers, 2006. 370 pp. Noble, an Englishman, seems to have been driving trucks in the area Iraq-Syria-Turkey in the 1970s and 1980s.

Nicolas Pelham, A New Muslim Order: The Shia and the Middle East Sectarian Crisis. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2008. xv, 272 pp. Mostly Iraq, but includes discussion of other countries.

William R. Polk, Understanding Iraq: The Whole Sweep of Iraqi History, from Genghis Khan’s Mongols to the Ottoman Turks to the British Mandate to the American Occupation. New York: HarperCollins, 2005. 240 pp.

Simon Ponsford, Iraq. Smart Apple Media, 2008. 32 pp. For juvenile readers.

Suha Rassam, Christianity in Iraq: Its Origins and Development to the Present Day. Leominster, Herefordshire, UK: Gracewing, 2005. xxix, 203 pp.

Paul William Roberts, The Demonic Comedy: Some Detours in the Baghdad of Saddam Hussein. Canada: Stoddart, 1997. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998. ix, 294 pp. Roberts, a British journalist and writer, managed to get into Iraq in 1990 by attaching himself to the Egyptian delegation going there for an Arab summit. He returned during the 1991 war, paying smugglers to get him from Jordan into Iraq. He went for a third time, by invitation of the Iraqi government, in 1995.

Georges Sada with Jim Nelson Black, Saddam’s Secrets: How an Iraqi General Defied and Survived Saddam Hussein. Brentwood, TN: Integrity Publishers, 2006. xvi, 315 pp.

Khaled Salih, State-making, Nation-building and the Military: Iraq 1941-1958. Göteborg University, 1996. 177 pp.

Charlie Samuel, Iraq. National Geographic, 2007. 64 pp. For juvenile readers.

Jean Sasson, Daughter of Iraq: Mayada: One Woman’s Survival Under Saddam Hussein. New York: Dutton, 2003. pb New York: New American Library (Penguin), 2004. xxi, 321 pp.

Priya Satia, “The Defense of Inhumanity: Air Control and the British Idea of Arabia.” American Historical Review, 111:1 (Feb 2006), pp. 16-51.

Rachel Schmidt, Global Arms Exports to Iraq, 1960-1990. N-3248-USDP. Santa Monica: Rand, 1991. 88 pp.

Reeva Spector Simon, Iraq Between the Two World Wars: The Militarist Origins of Tyranny. Rev. ed. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. 256 pp. Traces patterns of attitude and belief among Iraqi military officers, with the main focus on the period up to 1941, but to some extent running from the Sharifians within the Ottoman Empire before 1918, all the way to the regime of Saddam Hussein.

Peter Sluglett, Britain in Iraq: Contriving King and Country. I.B. Tauris, 2007. 384 pp. A history from 1914 to 1932.

Marion Farouk-Sluglett and Peter Sluglett, Iraq since 1958: From Revolution to Dictatorship, 3d ed. London: I.B. Tauris, 2001. xxi, 390 pp.

Gareth R.V. Stansfield, Iraqi Kurdistan: Political Development and Emergent Democracy. London, 2003.

Gareth Stansfield, Iraq: People, History, Politics. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2007. xv, 262 pp. Slightly more than half of this history of Iraq deals with events since 1979.

David Styan, France and Iraq: Oil, Arms and French Policy Making in the Middle East. London: I.B. Tauris, 2006. 272 pp. The background goes back to the end of World War I, but the main part of the book deals with Franco-Iraqi relations from De Gaulle onward.

Jo Tatchell, Nabeel’s Song: A Family Story of Survival in Iraq. Doubleday, 2007. 368 pp. Nabeel Yasin, a leading Iraq poet, went into exile in 1980 after the Baath declared him an enemy of the state.

Gordon Taylor, Fever & Thirst: A Missionary Doctor Amid the Christian Tribes of Kurdistan. Academy Chicago Publishers, 2005. 354 pp. The story of Asahel Grant, a doctor who went (with his family) in 1835 to the Kurdish area of the Ottoman empire, as a missionary to minister to Nestorian (Assyrian) Christians there. I am not certain whether the areas where he served later became part of Iraq.

Scott Taylor, Among the ‘Others’: Encounters with the Forgotten Turkmen of Iraq. Ottawa, Canada: Esprit de Corps Books, 2004. 208 pp.

Wilfred Thesiger, The Marsh Arabs. Penguin, 2008. Introduction by Jon Lee Anderson. Thesiger spent a lot of time in the marshes of southern Iraq between 1951 and 1958.

Joseph Tragert, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Understanding Iraq. Indianapolis, Indiana: Alpha (Pearson Education?), 2003. xviii, 318 pp.

Charles Tripp, A History of Iraq. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xvii, 311 pp. Third edition Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xxiii, 357 pp.

Mike [Michael James] Tucker, Hell Is Over: Voices of the Kurds After Saddam. Guilford, Connecticut: Lyons Press (Globe Pequot Press), 2004. xxii, 183 pp.

William F. Tucker, Mahdis and Millenarians: Shi’ite Extremists in Early Muslim Iraq. Cambridge University Press, 2008.

United States Export Policy Toward Iraq Prior to Iraq’s Invasion of Kuwait. This is said to exist as a staff report of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, October 27, 1992, Senate Report 102-996, but I can’t find it in CIS index, and I can’t find any other indication that Senate Reports went nearly as high as 996 during the 102nd Congress. Much more likely it was a hearing, as follows:
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Reidar Visser, Basra, the Failed Gulf State: Separatism and Nationalism in Southern Iraq. Germany: Lit Verlag, 2006. 256 pp.

Reidar Visser, British Policy and Inter-Sectarian Relations in Iraq, 1914-1926: A Preliminary Study Based on Documents of the British Government. Oslo: Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, 1997. 99 pp.

Heather Lehr Wagner, Iraq. Chelsea House, 2009. 120 pp. For juvenile readers.

Ali Wardi, Understanding Iraq: Society, Culture, and Personality. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2008. xix, 129 pp. Translated by, and Foreword by, Fuad Baali. Preface by Phebe Marr. Ali al-Wardi (1913-1995), an Iraqi, earned a Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of Texas in 1950, and founded the Sociology Department of the University of Baghdad. He is said to have been a great scholar of Iraqi history and society. This volume was originally pubished in Arabic in 1965.

Haifa Zangana, City of Widows: An Iraqi Woman’s Account of War and Resistance. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2007. 169 pp. Daughter of a Kurdish father and an Arab mother, she spent some time in Syria in the late 1960s, providing medical services to Palestinians. She became a member of the Central Leadership (CL) faction of the Iraqi Communist Party; she was arrested in 1972 and imprisoned for six months. Bitterly hostile to both the Baath and the US occupation of Iraq.

 

The Iran-Iraq War, and U.S. Involvement in It

Ronald E. Bergquist, The Role of Airpower in the Iran-Iraq War. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Air University Press, 1988. x, 94 pp.

John Bulloch and Harvey Morris, The Gulf War: Its Origins, History, and Consequences. London: Methuen, 1989. xxi, 309 pp.

Tom Cooper and Farzad Bishop, Iran-Iraq War in the Air, 1980-1988. Atglen, PA: Schiffer, 2000. 304 pp.

Anthony H. Cordesman and Abraham R. Wagner, The Lessons of Modern War, vol. II, The Iran-Iraq War. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1990. xxii, 647 pp.

Admiral William J. Crowe, Jr., with David Chanoff, Line of Fire: From Washington to the Gulf, the Politics and Battles of the New Military. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993. 367 pp. Includes Iran-Iraq War.

Andrea De Guttry and Natalino Ronzitti, eds., The Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988) and the Law of Naval Warfare. Cambridge, England: Grotius Publications, 1993. xxiv, 573 pp.

Ali E. Hillal Dessouki, ed., The Iraq-Iran War: Issues of Conflict and Prospects for Settlement: Proceedings of a Seminar. Princeton, NJ: Center of International Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, 1981. i, 119 pp.

Developments in the Persian Gulf, June 1984. Hearing, Subcommittee on Europe and the Middle East, House Committee on Foreign Affairs, June 11, 1984. iii, 71 pp.
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Nadia El-Sayed El-Shazly, The Gulf Tanker War: Iran and Iraq’s Maritime Swordplay. New York: St. Martin’s, 1998. xxi, 403 pp.

Nicola Firzli, ed., The Iran-Iraq Conflict. Paris: Editions du Monde Arabe, 1981. 335 pp.

Rick Francona, Ally to Adversary: An Eyewitness Account of Iraq’s Fall from Grace. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1999. xx, 186 pp. Francona was involved in U.S. assistance to Iraq 1987-88, then was personal interpreter to Norman Scharzkopf during Desert Shield and Desert Storm.

John Glenn and John Warner, Persian Gulf: Report to the Majority Leader, United States Senate, from Senator John Glenn and Senator John Warner on their trip to the Persian Gulf May 27-June 4, 1987. v, 36 pp.
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Dilip Hiro, The Longest War: The Iran-Iraq Military Conflict. Routledge (Taylor & Francis), 1990. 323 pp.

Bruce W. Jentleson, With Friends Like These: Reagan, Bush, and Saddam, 1982-1990. New York: Norton, 1994. 300 pp.

Christopher C. Joyner, ed., The Persian Gulf War: Lessons for Strategy, Law, and Diplomacy. New York: Greenwood Press, 1990. x, 256 pp.

Majid Khadduri, The Gulf War: The Origins and Implications of the Iraq-Iran Conflict. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. viii, 236 pp.

Mohammed H. Malek, ed., International Mediation and the Gulf War. Glasgow, Scotland: Royston, 1991. 202 pp.

Hanss W. Maull and Otto Pick, eds., The Gulf War: Regional and International Dimensions. New York: St. Martin's, 1989. ix, 203 pp.

Thomas Naff, ed., Gulf Security and the Iran-Iraq War. Washington, D.C.: National Defense University Press / Philadelphia, PA: Middle East Research Institute, 1985. xvi, 193 pp.

Martin S. Navias and E.R. Hooton, Tanker Wars: The Assault on Merchant Shipping During the Iran-Iraq Conflict, 1980-1988. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 1996. ix, 244 pp.

Our Tyrannized Cities: Statistical Survey of Aggressions of Baathist Regime of Iraq Against Iranian Cities and Residential Areas. Tehran: War Information Headquarters, Supreme Defense Council, 1983. 117 pp.

Michael E. Palmer, On Course to Desert Storm: The United States Navy and the Persian Gulf. Washington, D.C.: Naval Historical Center, 1992. Contributions to Naval History, No. 5. xxii, 201 pp. Mainly covers the period from 1946 to 1988; the first few pages go back to the 19th century.

Bradley Peniston, No Higher Honor: Saving the USS Samuel B. Roberts in the Persian Gulf. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2006. xvi, 275 pp.

Mark Phythian, Arming Iraq: How the U.S. and Britain Secretly Built Saddam’s War Machine. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1997. xxvii, 325 pp.

Farhan Rajaee, ed., Iranian Perspectives on the Iran-Iraq War. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1997. 168 pp.

Report on the Staff Investigation into the Iraqi Attack on the USS Stark. House Committee on Armed Services, 1987. v, 30 pp.

Senate Committee on Foreign Relations

R.C. Sharma, ed., Perspectives on Iran-Iraq Conflict. New Delhi: Rajesh Publications, 1984. vi, 211 pp.

Kapil Kaul Sreedhar, Tanker War: Aspect of Iraq-Iran War, 1980-88. New Delhi: ABC Publishing House, 1989. 143 pp.

Craig L. Symonds, Decision at Sea: Five Naval Battles that Shaped American History. New York: Oxford UP, 2005. xvii, 378 pp. Chapter 5, “Operation Praying Mantis: The Persian Gulf, April 18, 1988” (pp. 263-320), is in fact a much broader look at USN involvement in the Iran-Iraq War than the title suggests.

Shirin Tahir-Kheli and Shaheen Ayubi, eds., The Iran-Iraq War: New Weapons, Old Conflicts. New York: Praeger, 1983. xiii, 210 pp.

George K. Walker, The Tanker War, 1980-88: Law and Policy. Newport, Rhode Island: Naval War College, 2000. xiv, 640 pp.

A Timothy Warnock, Short of War: Major USAF Contingency Operations. Washington, D.C.: Air Force History and Museums Program/Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Air University Press, 2000. xxix, 274 pp.

Harold Wise, Inside the Danger Zone: The U.S. Military in the Persian Gulf, 1987-1988. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2007. xiii, 272 pp.

The Vincennes Incident. On July 3, 1988, the Aegis guided missile cruiser USS Vincennes mistook a civilian airliner for an Iranian military aircraft, and shot it down over the Persian Gulf.

 

The First U.S. - Iraq War: Desert Shield and Desert Storm (1990-1991)

Overall Desert Storm and Miscellaneous

Operations DESERT SHIELD and DESERT STORM: Bibliography. Historical Resources Branch, US Army Center of Military History

James A. Baker, III, with Thomas M. DeFrank, The Politics of Diplomacy: Revolution, War & Peace, 1989-1992. New York: Putnam, 1995. xvi, 687 pp. Baker was Secretary of State.

General Sir Peter de la Billière, Storm Command: A Personal Account of the Gulf War. London: HarperCollins, 1992. 348 pp. General de la Billière commanded the British forces of all services in Desert Storm.

Herbert H. Blumberg, The Persian Gulf War: Views from the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1993. 638 pp.

George Bush and Brent Scowcroft, A World Transformed. New York: Knopf, 1998. xiv, 590 pp.

Susan Canady et. al., TRADOC Support to Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm: A Preliminary Study. Fort Monroe, VA: Office of the Command Historian, United States Army Training and Doctrine Command, 1992. xi, 101 pp.

Rodney P. Carlisle, Persian Gulf War. Facts on File, 2003. 176 pp. For young readers.

Ramsey Clark et. Al., War Crimes: A Report on United States War Crimes Against Iraq. Washington, D.C.: Maisonneuve Press, 1992. xi, 281 pp.

Conduct of the Persian Gulf War. Washington, D.C.: Department of Defense, 1992. xxxi, 824 pp.
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Crisis in the Persian Gulf: Sanctions, Diplomacy, and War. Hearings, House Committee on Armed Services, December 4-20, 1990. v, 920 pp.
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Crisis in the Persian Gulf region: U.S. policy options and implications. Hearings, Senate Committee on Armed Services, September 11, 13; November 27, 28, 29, 30; December 3, 1990. iv, 765 pp.
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Lawrence Freedman and Efraim Karsh, The Gulf Conflict, 1990-1991: Diplomacy and War in the New World Order. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992. 548 pp. Paperback 1995.

Norman Friedman, Desert Victory: The War for Kuwait. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1991. 440 pp.

"Frontline" Oral Histories. The PBS documentary series "Frontline" has made available a collection of oral histories of key people involved in this war, compiled during the research for one or more programs. Each of the links below goes to the first page of a multi-page oral history; just keep hitting the "more" button at the bottom of each page to move on to the next.

Michael R. Gordon and General Bernard E Trainor, The Generals’ War: The Inside Story of the Conflict in the Gulf. Boston: Back Bay Books (Little, Brown), 1995. xv, 551 pp. DS 79.72 .G67 1995

Gary R. Hess, Presidential Decisions for War: Korea, Vietnam, and the Persian Gulf. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. xiv, 262 pp. 2d ed Presidential Decisions for War: Korea, Vietnam, the Persian Gulf, and Iraq. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. 328 pp.
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The impact of the Persian Gulf War and the decline of the Soviet Union on how the United States does its defense business. Hearings, House Committee on Armed Services, February 27 - June 12, 1991. v, 974 pp.
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Zachary Karabell, "Backfire: U.S. Policy Toward Iraq, 1988 - 2 August 1990," Middle East Journal 49 (Winter 1995), 28-47.

Shant Kederian, 1001 Nights in Iraq: The Shocking Story of an American Forced to Fight for Saddam against the Country He Loves. New York: Atria, 2007. 292 pp. Kederian, an Iraqi-American, made what was supposed to be a brief visit back to Iraq in 1980, and was unable to leave because of the Iran-Iraq War. He was drafted into the Iraqi Navy in 1985, and fought in the Basra area. Then in 1990 he was drafted into the Iraqi Army.

Khaled ibn Sultan, with Patrick Seale, Desert Warrior: A Personal View of the Gulf War by the Joint Forces Commander. New York: HarperCollins, 1995. xx, 492 pp. DS 79.74 .B56 1995

Michael Knights, Cradle of Conflict: Iraq and the Birth of the Modern U.S. Military. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2005. xxiii, 462 pp. Both US-Iraq Wars, and detailed coverage of the operations in between.

Eric V. Larson and Bogdan Savych, American Public Support for U.S. Military Operations from Mogadishu to Baghdad. MG-231-A. Santa Monica, California: Rand, 2005. xxix, 248 pp. An Arroyo Center monograph. Technical Appendixes have been published separately. TR-167-A. x, 58 pp.

Jerry M. Long, Saddam’s War of Words: Politics, Religion, and the Iraqi Invasion of Kuwait. Austin: U of Texas Press, 2004. xiii, 272 pp.

LtCol Nathan S. Lowrey, USMCR, Marine History Operations in Iraq: Operation Iraqi Freedom I: A Catalog of Interviews and Recordings, Historical Documents, Photographs and Combat Art. Washington, DC: History and Museums Division, United States Marine Corps, 2005. vi, 254 pp.

Richard S. Lowry, The Gulf War Chronicles: A Military History of the First War with Iraq. iUniverse Star, 2008. 280 pp.

John Mueller, Policy and Opinion in the Gulf War. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994. xviii, 379 pp. A vital reference for anyone interested in public opinion of the war; it has 158 pages of tables of data from public opinion polls.

Clayton R. Newell, Historical Dictionary of the Persian Gulf War, 1990-1991. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 1998. lix, 363 pp. The focus is very American.

Joseph Nye and Roger Smith, eds., After the Storm: Lessons from the Gulf War. Lanham, MD: Madison Books, 1992. x, 415 pp.

William Pagonis, with Jeffrey Cruikshank, Moving Mountains: Lessons in Leadership and Logistics from the Gulf War. Harvard Business School Press, 1992. Quite interesting.

Nicolas Rangel, Jr., "Part of something larger than ourselves: George H.W. Bush and the rhetoric of the first U.S. war in the Persian Gulf". Ph.D. dissertation, Communication, Texas A&M University, 2007. xi, 222 pp. AAT 3281141.

Vicki J. Rast, Interagency Fratricide: Policy Failures in the Persian Gulf and Bosnia. Air University Press, 2004. 466 pp. Looks pretty abstract. Text online at http://www.maxwell.af.mil/au/aul/aupress/Books/Rast/newrast.pdf.

William Rosenau, Special Operations Forces and Elusive Enemy Ground Targets. Santa Monica: Rand, 2001. xi, 60 pp. The Scud hunt is pp. 29-44.

Général Maurice Schmitt, De Diên Biên Phu à Koweït City (From Dien Bien Phu to Kuwait City). Paris: Grasset, 1992. 309 pp. Schmitt, who was the Chief of Staff of the French Army, devotes pp. 165-273 of this memoir to the Gulf crisis of 1990-1991.

Richard Alan Schwartz, Encyclopedia of the Persian Gulf War. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1998. vii, 216 pp.

Micah L. Sifry and Christopher Cerf, eds., The Gulf War Reader: History, Documents, Opinions. Three Rivers Press, 1991. 526 pp.

Special Operations.com Bibliography of the 1991 war.

Martin Stanton, Road to Baghdad: Behind Enemy Lines: The Adventures of an American Soldier in the Gulf War. New York: Presidio (Random House), 2003. pb New York: Presidio (Ballantine [Random House]), 2004. 363 pp. Stanton, a U.S. Army major, adviser to the Saudis, was visiting Kuwait at the time Iraq invaded, and was a prisoner of the Iraqis for four months. He returned to his job as an adviser to the Abdul Aziz Brigade January 5, 1991. pp. 302-18 cover Battle of Khafji. pp. 331-346 cover the ground war.

U.S. Policy in the Persian Gulf. Hearings, Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. Part 1: December 4-5, 1990. iii, 201 pp. Part 2: December 6, 12, 13, 1990. iv, 277 pp. Mostly non-governmental witnesses, but Secreatary of State Baker's testimony appears in Part 1.
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Kevin M. Woods, The Mother of All Battles: Saddam Hussein’s Strategic Plan for the Persian Gulf War. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2008. xxix, 352 pp. “Official U.S. Joint Forces Command Report”

Bob Woodward, The Commanders. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991. 398 pp.

Martin Yant, Desert Mirage: The True Story of the Gulf War. Buffalo, New York: Prometheus, 1991. 222 pp. Peter Arnett, including the baby milk factory, pp. 48-51. The question of whether Iraq was ready to continue past Kuwait into Saudia is pp. 90-92.

Steve A. Yetiv, The Persian Gulf Crisis. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1997.

Steve A. Yetiv, Explaining Foreign Policy: U.S. Decision-Making and the Persian Gulf War. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. 288 pp. Mostly the decision to go to war in 1991, but some comparison with the decision to go to war in 2003. Publisher’s blurb gives the impression it has more political science theory than I like.

 

Air Power Desert Storm

Air Force Magazine. The monthly journal of the Air Force Association. Texts of some but not all past articles have been placed online at the Air Force Magazine Archive. A sample:

Lt. Col. William F. Andrews, Airpower against an Army: Challenge and Response in CENTAF's Duel with the Republican Guard. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Air University Press, 1998. ix, 132 pp.
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Sherman Baldwin, Ironclaw: A Navy Carrier Pilot’s Gulf War Experience. New York: William Morrow, 1996. xii, 265 pp.

James R. Brungess, Setting the Context: Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses and Joint War Fighting in an Uncertain World. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Air University Press, 1994. xvii, 225 pp. The Vietnam War and Desert Storm are two of the cases considered.
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HOward K. Butler, Desert Shield and Desert Storm: An Aviation Logistics History, 1990-1991. St. Louis, MO: U.S. Army Aviation Systems Command, 1991. xv, 778 pp.

Alan Cockrell, Tail of the Storm: Flying Missions in the First Gulf War. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2003. 248 pp. By a C-141 pilot.

Eliot A. Cohen et al., Gulf War Air Power Survey. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1993.

Richard G. Davis, Decisive Force: Strategic Bombing in the Gulf War. Washington: GPO/Air Force History and Museums Program, 1996. 87 pp. D 301.82/7:D 35

Richard G. Davis, On Target: Organizing and Executing the Strategic Air Campaign Against Iraq. Washington: Air Force History and Museums Program, 2002. xii, 385 pp.

Michael Donnelly, with Denise Donnelly, Falcon’s Cry: A Desert Storm Memoir. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1998. x, 251 pp. Major Donnelly, USAF, served as a fighter pilot in the war. A few years later, he was diagnosed with ALS, which he believes was caused by exposure to Iraqi chemical weapons during the war.

Lt Col David S. Fadok, "John Boyd and John Warden: Airpower's Quest for Strategic Paralysis," in School of Advanced Airpower Studies (Colonel Philip S. Meilinger, ed.), The Paths of Heaven: The Evolution of Airpower Theory (Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama: Air University Press, 1997), pp. 357-398. Discusses some of the doctrinal background of the approach the Air Force used in 1991, not the 1991 war itself.

"Frontline" Oral Histories. The PBS documentary series "Frontline" has made available a collection of oral histories of key people involved in this war, compiled during the research for one or more programs. Each of the links below goes to the first page of a multi-page oral history; just keep hitting the "more" button at the bottom of each page to move on to the next.

Rafael J. Garcia, Paladin zero six : a Desert Storm memoir by a 101st Airborne attack helicopter company commander. Jefferson, NC: MacFarland, 1994. viii, 168 pp.

General Buster Glosson, War With Iraq: Critical Lessons. Charlotte, NC: GFF (Glosson Family Foundation), 2003. xii, 306 pp.

John Godden, ed., Shield and Storm: Personal Recollections of the Air War in the Gulf. London and Washington: Brassey's, 1994. viii, 145 pp. I believe this is a collection of accounts by British personnel.

R. Cargill Hall, ed., Case Studies in Strategic Bombardment. Washington: GPO/Air Force History and Museums Program, 1998. 679 pp.
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Peter Hunt, Angles of Attack: An A-6 Intruder Pilot’s War. New York: Ballantine, 2002. xi, 368 pp. Hunt was a pilot in VA-145, the Swordsmen, call sign “Rustler,” flying off USS Ranger (CV-61).

Perry D. Jamieson, Lucrative Targets: The U.S. Air Force in the Kuwaiti Theater of Operations. Washington: Air Force History and Museums Program, 2001. xiii, 247 pp.

Thomas A. Keaney, “Surveying Gulf War Airpower,” Joint Force Quarterly #2 (Autumn 1993).

Thomas A. Keaney and Eliot A. Cohen, Revolution in warfare? : air power in the Persian Gulf. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1995. xvi, 314 pp.

Edward C. Mann III, Thunder and lightning : Desert Storm and the airpower debates. Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama: Air University Press, 1995. xx, 220 pp.

David R. Mets, The Air Campaign: John Warden and the Classical Airpower Theorists. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Air University Press, 1998. xi, 86 pp. Revised Edition: Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Air University Press, 1999. xi, 86 pp. Colonel Warden played a crucial role in planning the innovative 1991 air campaign (see also a couple of works by Colonel Warden, below).
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Williamson Murray, Air War in the Pesian Gulf. Baltimore, MD: Nautical & Aviation Pub. Co. of America, 1995. 338 pp.

John Andreas Olsen, John Warden and the Renaissance of American Air Power. Washington, D.C.: Potomac Books, 2007. xvi, 349 pp.

John Andreas Olsen, Strategic Air Power in Desert Storm. London and Portland: Frank Cass, 2003. xviii, 318 pp.

Performance of the Patriot Missile System in the Gulf War. Hearing before the Legislation and National Security Subcommittee of the House Committee on Government Operations, April 7, 1992. GPO, 1993. iv, 341 pp. I believe there is also a report of the same title from the same committee, House Report 102-1086.

Ronald N. Priddy, A history of the Civil Reserve Air Fleet in Operations Desert Shield, Desert Storm, and Desert Sortie. Cambridge, MA: Volpe National Transportation Center, 1994. Written for the DOD Policy Board on Federal Aviation.

Diane Putney, Airpower Advantage: Planning the Gulf War Air Campaign, 1989-1991. Washington: Air Force History and Museums Program, 2004. xii, 481 pp.
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RAND Corporation (Previously, Rand Corporation). This "think tank" does a lot of research and analysis work on contract for the Defense Department. Most RAND publications can be purchased in hard copy through the RAND Corporation online bookstore, but many also can be read online for free.

Col. Richard T. Reynolds, Heart of the Storm: The Genesis of the Air Campaign against Iraq. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Air University Press, 1995. xxiv, 147 pp. This was intended to be volume 1 of 2, but so far as I am aware, the second was never published. There is a disclaimer in the front by Lt. Gen. Jay W. Kelley, stating in unusually strong terms that the book really does not represent the opinion of the Air Force, and that many people believe Col. Reynolds is biased in favor of Col. John Warden and Warden’s team.

Keith Rosenkranz, Vipers in the Storm: Diary of a Gulf War Fighter Pilot. McGraw-Hill, 2002. ix, 325 pp. I believe there was a previous edition in 1999, maybe also McGraw-Hill, maybe Turner Publishing. Rosenkranz flew F-16s, based at Al Minhad, Saudi Arabia.

Valéry Rousset, La guerre à ciel ouvert: Irak, 1991. Paris: ADDIM, 1996. 316 pp.

Virginia N. Sherry, et al., Needless Deaths in the Gulf War: Civilian Casualties During the Air Campaign and Violations of the Laws of War. A Middle East Watch report. New York: Human Rights Watch, 1991. xvi, 402 pp. Includes discussion of Iraqi, not just American, violations of the laws of war.

William L. Smallwood, Strike Eagle: Flying the F-15E in the Gulf War. Washington, D.C.: Brassey’s, 1994 xii, 218 pp.

William L. Smallwood, Warthog: Flying the A-10 in the Gulf War. Washington: Brassey’s, 1993. xviii, 241 pp. Based on interviews

Lt. Col. LeRoy D. Stearns, The 3d Marine Aircraft Wing in Desert Shield and Desert Storm. Washington, D.C.: History and Museums Division, Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps / GPO, 1999. ix, 223 pp.
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Jay A. Stout, Hornets over Kuwait. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1997. x, 244 pp.

Warren E. Thompson, Bandits Over Baghdad: Personal Stories of Flying the F-117 Over Iraq. North Branch, MN: Specialty Press, 2000. vi, 200 pp.

Warren Thompson, F-117 stealth fighter units of Operation Desert Storm. Oxford and New York: Osprey, 2007. 96 p.

Capt. Michael P. Vriesenga, ed., From the Line in the Sand: Accounts of USAF Company Grade Officers in Support of Desert Shield/Desert Storm. Maxwell AFB: Air University Press, 1994. xviii, 271 pp.
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John A. Warden III, The Air Campaign: Planning for Combat. Washington, D.C.: National Defense University Press, 1988. Shortly after writing this, Warden played a crucial role in formulating the plan for the 1991 air war.

John A. Warden III, "The Enemy as a System." Airpower Journal, Spring 1995, pp. 40-55.

Kenneth P. Werrell, The Evolution of the Cruise Missile. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Air University Press, 1997. xiv, 289 pp.
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James A. Winnefeld and Dana J. Johnson, Joint Air Operations: Pursuit of Unity in Command and Control, 1942-1991. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1993. xxv, 219 pp. Six case studies, from Midway through Desert Storm.

 

Friendly Fire

The Investigation of a Friendly Fire Incident During the Persian Gulf War, S.Hrg. 104-268. Hearing of the Committee on Governmental Affairs, Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, June 29, 1995. v, 202 pp. Deals with the incident of February 27, 1991, when a unit of the 3rd ACR attacked soldiers of an Engineer unit who were waiting beside a road because their truck had broken down.
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Minimizing Friendly Fire: The Army Should Consider Long-Term Solution, In Its Procurement Decision on Near-Term Needs, GAO/NSIAD-94-19, B-253863, U.S. GAO, October 22, 1993.
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Operation Desert Storm: Apache Helicopter Fratricide Incident, GAO/OSI-93-4, U.S. GAO, June 30, 1993.
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Charles R. Shrader, "Friendly Fire: The Inevitable Price," Parameters, 22 (Autumn 1992) [Shrader appears to be the Army expert on amicide; I am presuming this article must be about Desert Storm.]

United States General Accounting Office, National Security and International Affairs Division, Blackhawk incident legal questions.
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United States General Accounting Office, Operation Desert Storm: investigation of a U.S. Army fratricide incident. 109 pp. Deals with the incident of February 27, 1991, when a unit of the 3rd ACR attacked soldiers of an Engineer unit who were waiting beside a road because their truck had broken down. microfiche GA 1.13:OSI-95-10

 

Ground War Desert Storm

John Adams, Flight of the Shxtbyrdz: Frontline View. Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2004. iv, 366 pp. Adams served in the 1st Marine Division.

Air Assault in the Gulf: An interview with MG J. H. Binford Peay, III, Commanding General, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault). Washington, DC: Center of Military History. 59 pp. Oral history interview conducted in June 1991.

Stephen A. Bourque, Jayhawk! The VII Corps in the Persian Gulf War. Washington: Department of the Army, 2002. xvi, 514 pp.

Stephen A. Bourque and John W. Burdan, The Road to Safwan: The 1st Squadron, 4th Cavalry in the 1991 Persian Gulf War. Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2007. 312 pp. I believe the 1-4 Cavalry was in the 1st Infantry Division, VII Corps.

Tom Clancy, with General Fred Franks, Jr. (Ret.), Into the Storm. New York: Putnam, 1997. pb New York: Berkley, 1998. xii, 562 pp. Franks commanded VII Corps.

Jeffrey J. Coonjohn, Operation Desert Storm: A Soldier’s Journal: Stories from the Front: A First Hand Account of the Gulf War. Fresno, CA: Military Press, 1991. xv, 195 pp.

James J. Cooke, 100 Miles from Baghdad: With the French in Desert Storm. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1993. xi, 223 pp.

Sean T. Coughlin, Storming the Desert: A Marine Lieutenant’s Day-by-Day Chronicle of the Persian Gulf War. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1996. viii, 168 pp.

Barbara J. Evans, For the Love of My Country: Desert Storm. Philadelphia: Xlibris, 2002. 165 pp.

Field Artillery. Fort Sill, Oklahoma; U.S. Army Field Artillery School. This journal has been published under this name since mid 1987. (It had appeared under various other titles intermittently since 1911.) All issues are available online through the Field Artillery archives page, which is nicely set up; you can choose to access either an entire issue in a very large .pdf file, or an individual article. Also it has a pretty decent search engine. A small sample:

Douglas Foster, Braving the Fear: The True Story of Rowdy US Marines in the Gulf War. PublishAmerica, 2006. 271 pp.

Joe Freitus, as told by Chris Freitus, Dial 911 Marines: Adventures of a Tank Company in Desert Shield and Desert Storm. McCarran, Nevada: New American Publishing, 2002. 320 pp.

"Frontline" Oral Histories. The PBS documentary series "Frontline" has made available a collection of oral histories of key people involved in this war, compiled during the research for one or more programs. Each of the links below goes to the first page of a multi-page oral history; just keep hitting the "more" button at the bottom of each page to move on to the next.

James F. Gebhardt, Eyes Behind the Lines: US Army Long-Range Reconnaissance and Surveillance Units, rev. ed. Global War on Terrorism Occasional Paper #10. Ft. Leavenworth, KS: Combat Studies Institute Press, 2005. vi, 177 pp. The Vietnam War is pp. 45-110. Desert Shield/Desert Storm is pp. 126-134. This historical study does not overtly discuss the 2003 US-Iraq War, but it was written with an eye to illuminating disputes over the use of reconnaissance units in that war.

Andrew Gillespie, Desert Fire: The Diary of a Gulf War Gunner. Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England: Leo Cooper (Pen & Sword), 2001. xxiv, 248 pp. Gillespie commanded O Battery (called the Rocket Troop, though it was equipped with M109 A2/3 155mm self-propelled howitzers), 2nd Field Regiment Royal Artillery, 4th Armoured Brigade, British First Armoured Division.

Infantry. Fort Benning, Georgia: U.S. Army Infantry School. Tables of contents for issues since 1982, with actual links to the texts of articles in issues since 1988, were once available to the public on the Infantry web site. But now this material is open only to users having a userid and password in the Army's system. There were surprisingly few articles published relating to the 1991 war.
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Frederick Kagan, Leaders in War: West Point Remembers the 1991 Gulf War. Taylor & Francis, 2006.

Otto J. Lehrack, America's Battalion : Marines in the First Gulf War. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2005. xiii, 236 pp.

John C. McManus, The 7th Infantry Regiment: Combat in an Age of Terror: The Korean War Through the Present. Tom Doherty Associates, 2008. 416 pp. One chapter (pp. 167-243) covers the first US-Iraq War.

G.J. Michaels, Tip of the Spear: U.S. Marine Light Armor in the Gulf War. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1998. xii, 253 pp. Michaels was a sergeant in Alpha Company of the 1st Light Armored Vehicle Battalion (LAV).

Molly Moore, A Woman at War: Storming Kuwait with the U.S. Marines. New York: Scribner’s, 1993. xv, 336 pp.

David J. Morris, Storm on the Horizon: Khafji: The Battle that Changed the Course of the Gulf War. New York: Free Press, 2004. xviii, 317 pp.
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David S. Pierson, Tuskers: An Armor Battalion in the Gulf War. Darlington, Maryland: Darlington Productions, 1997. 231 pp. 4/64 Armor.

Brigadier General Robert H. Scales, Jr. [et. al.], Certain Victory: The US Army in the Gulf War. xiii, 435 pp. Washington, D.C.: Office of the Chief of Staff, United States Army / GPO, 1993. Reprinted Ft. Leavenworth, KS: Command and General Staff College Press, 1994.

Frank N. Schubert and Theresa L. Kraus, eds., The Whirlwind War: The United States Army in Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. Washington, D.C.: Center of Military History, 1995. xvi, 312 pp.

Richard M. Swain, “Lucky War”: Third Army in Desert Storm. Fort Leavenworth, Kansas: U.S. Army Command and General Staff College Press. xxxii, 369 pp. Available online, in chunks, through a CSI web page.

Anthony Swofford, Jarhead: A Marine’s Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles. New York: Scribner, 2003. 272 pp. A Marine sniper.

Joel Turnipseed, Baghdad Express: A Gulf War Memoir. Penguin, 2003. 208 pp. Turnipseed was a Marine reservist mobilized for the war.

24th Mechanized Infantry Division. This division was part of the XVIII Airborne Corps.

United States Army Reserve in Operation Desert Storm: Ground Transportation Operations. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Army Reserve, 1994. v, 85 pp.
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U.S. Marines in the Persian Gulf, 1990-1991. The Marine Corps’ official history of the campaign (see also Stearns, above, the air war volume in this series).

Alex Vernon, with Neal Creighton, Jr., Greg Downey, Rob Holmes, and Dave Trybula, The Eyes of Orion: Five Tank Lieutenants in the Persian Gulf War. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1999. xxiv, 330 pp. The authors were in the 1-64 Armor, 24th Infantry Division (Mechanized), XVIII Airborne Corps.

Paul W. Westermeyer, U.S. Marines in Battle: Al-Khafji, 28 January - 1 February 1991. Washington, D.C.: History Division, United States Marine Corps. 36 pp.

Buzz Williams, Spare Parts: A Marine Reservist’s Journey from Campus to Combat in 38 Days. New York: Gotham Books (Penguin), 2004. xx, 303 pp.

 

Covert & Special Ops Desert Storm

Michael Asher, The Real Bravo Two Zero: The Truth Behind Bravo Two Zero. Weidenfeld Military, 2002. 240 pp. pb Cassell Military, 2003. An eight-man SAS patrol sent into Iraq 22 January 1991. Three were killed, four were captured, one escaped. Asher, a former member of the SAS but not a participant in the patrol, says that two best-selling books by men who were participants, NcNab and Ryan (see below), were seriously fictionalized.

Mike Coburn, Soldier Five: The Real Truth about the Bravo Two Zero Mission. pb Mainstream Publishing, 2004. 320 pp. He was a participant.

Andy McNab, Bravo Two Zero. Pb Bantam Doubleday Dell, 1994. 412 pp. McNab (pseudonym?) was the team leader of the Bravo Two Zero mission.

Chris Ryan, The One that Got Away: My SAS Mission Behind Enemy Lines. Washington, D.C.: Potomac Books, 2006. 241 pp. Previously published in paperback by Arrow Books, 2001. 418 pp. Ryan (pseudonym?) was a corporal in the famous SAS "Bravo Two Zero" mission into Iraq.

 

Media Desert Storm

Peter Arnett, Live from the Battlefield: From Vietnam to Baghdad, 35 Years in the World's War Zones. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994. 463 pp.

Christopher Bellamy, Expert Witness: A Defense Correspondent’s Gulf War, 1990-1991. London and New York: Brassey’s, 1993. xxxi, 252 pp.

W. Lance Bennett and David L. Paletz, eds., Taken by Storm: The Media, Public Opinion, and U.S. Foreign Policy in the Gulf War. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994. xvi, 308 pp.

Robert E. Denton, Jr., ed., The Media and the Persian Gulf War. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 1993. xviii, 302 pp.

John J. Fialka, Hotel Warriors: Covering the Gulf War. Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press/Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991. xv, 78 pp.

Susan Jeffords and Lauren Rabinovitz, eds., Seeing Through the Media: The Persian Gulf TV War. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1994. xii, 343 pp. Looks a bit left wing, maybe.

Douglas Kellner, The Persian Gulf TV War. Boulder: Westview, 1992. xii, 460 pp.

Douglas Kellner, "The Persian Gulf TV war revisited", in Stuart Allan and Barbie Zelizer, eds., Reporting War: Journalism in Wartime (London and New York: Rougledge [Taylor & Francis], 2004), pp. 136-154.

John R. MacArthur, Second Front: Censorship and Propaganda in the Gulf War. New York: Hill and Wang (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), 1992. viii, 260 pp. 2d ed. with a new preface Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004.

[Col.] Lloyd J. Matthews, ed., Newsmen and National Defense: Is Conflict Inevitable?. Washington, D.C.: Brassey's, 1991. xxiv, 146 pp. I have not seen this, but my impression is that most or all of the essays were written before the 1991 war.

Captain Jon Mordan, "Press Pools, Prior Restraint and the Persian Gulf War." Aerospace Power Chronicles, June 6, 1999.

David E. Morrison, Television and the Gulf War. London: J. Libbey, 1992. viii, 100 pp.

Claude Salhani, Black September to Desert Storm: A Journalist in the Middle East. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1998. ix, 262 pp. Salhani began working as a photojournalist in 1970 in Beirut. Desert Storm is the last chapter.

Major General Winant Sidle, Ret., "A Battle Behind the Scenes: The Gulf War Reheats Military-Media Controversy." Military Review, September 1991, pp. 52-.

Perry M. Smith, How CNN Fought the War: A View from the Inside. New York: Carol, 1991. xvi, 223 pp.

Pete Williams, “A Gulf War Military-Media Review,” Defense Issues, March 14, 1991.

 

Medical Consequences of Desert Storm

Phil Brown, Toxic Exposures: Contested Illnesses and the Environmental Health Movement. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. xxxiv, 356 pp. Considers breast cancer, asthma, and Gulf War-related illnesses.

Desert Storm mystey illness/adequacy of care. Hearing, Military Forces and Personnel Subcommittee, House Committee on Armed Services, March 15, 1994. iii, 166 pp.
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Michael Donnelly, with Denise Donnelly, Falcon’s Cry: A Desert Storm Memoir. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1998. x, 251 pp. Major Donnelly served as a fighter pilot in the war. A few years later, he was diagnosed with ALS, which he believes was caused by exposure to Iraqi chemical weapons during the war.

Gulf War Health Issues. Hearing before a subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate. iii, 66 pp.
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Gulf War Illnesses. Special hearing, Subcommittee on Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies, Senate Appropriations Committee, October 12, 2000. iii, 73 pp.
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House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight / House Committee on Government Reform [see also under GAO below]

House Committee on Veterans' Affairs

Gary Matsumoto, Vaccine A: The Covert Government Experiment that's Killing Our Soldiers and Why GI's are Only the First Victims. New York: Basic Books, 2004. xx, 362 pp.

Persian Gulf Veterans Act of 1998. Report, Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs, October 2, 1998. 37 pp.
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RAND Corporation (Previously, Rand Corporation). This "think tank" does a lot of research and analysis work on contract for the Defense Department. Most RAND publications can be purchased in hard copy through the RAND Corporation online bookstore, but many also can be read online for free.

Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses, Gulf War Illness and the Health of Gulf War Veterans: Scientific Findings and Recommendations. Washington, D.C.: Department of Veterans' Affairs/Government Printing Office, 2008. iv, 454 pp. The report of this congressionally mandated study, released in November 2008, concluded that Gulf War syndrome represents a genuine medical problem affecting at least a quarter of the American veterans of the Gulf War, and that it had two major provable causes, both of them chemical: pyridostigmine bromide pills given to U.S. military personnel to protect them against possible use of Iraqi nerve gases, and pesticides used by the U.S. military.

[Distributed by Bernard Rostker, Special Assistant for Gulf War Illnesses, Department of Defense], Iraq’s Scud Ballistic Missiles. Unpaginated, about 90 pp. A version last updated July 25, 2000 has been placed online in the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project, at Texas Tech University.

Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs

U.S. Dual-Use Exports to Iraq and their Impact on the Health of the Persian Gulf War Veterans, Hearing of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, May 25, 1994. iii, 551 pp. Y 4.B 22/3:S.HRG.103-900

United States General Accounting Office (GAO)

Jeff Wheelwright, The Irritable Heart: The Medical Mystery of the Gulf War. New York: Norton, 2001. 427 pp.

 

Navy Desert Storm

Bibliography: "United States Naval Forces in Desert Shield and Desert Storm: A Select Bibliography". This bibliography is much broader than the title suggests; most of the books listed are not specifically naval in their focus.

Chris Craig, Call for Fire: Sea Combat in the Falklands and the Gulf War. London: John Murray, 1995. Written by the Royal Navy's Senior Naval Officer Middle East during the Gulf War.

Edward Marolda, History: “The United States Navy and The Persian Gulf"

Edward J. Marolda and Robert J. Schneller Jr., Shield and Sword: The United States Navy and the Persian Gulf War. Washington, DC: Naval Historical Center, 1998. xxi, 517 pp.
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Arnold Meisner, Desert Storm Sea Victory. Stillwater, MN: Motorbooks International, 1991. 128 pp.

Duncan E. Miller and Sharon Hobson, The Persian Excursion: The Canadian Navy in the Gulf War. Toronto: The Canadian Institute of Strategic Studies, 1995.

Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm sealift performance and future sealift requirements. Hearings before the Subcommittee on Merchant Marine of the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, House of Representatives, April 23 and May 21, 1991. Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1992. v, 596 pp.
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Persian Gulf Sealift Requirements. Hearings before the Subcommittee on Merchant Marine of the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, House of Representatives, September 18 and 26, 1990. Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1990. iv, 506 pp.
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Robert J. Schneller, Jr., Persian Gulf Turkey Shoot: The Destruction of Iraqi Naval Forces during Operation Desert Storm. Washington, D.C.: Naval Historical Center, 1993.

The United States Navy in "Desert Shield"/"Desert Storm". A preliminary history, compiled by the U.S. Navy in 1991, in the immediate aftermath of the war.

 

Iraq between the two American Wars

Yasmin Husein Al-Jawaheri, Women in Iraq: The Gender Impact of International Sanctions. Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Reinner, 2008. Includes the post-2003 results of the 1990-2003 sanctions.

Abbas Alnasrawi, Iraq’s Burdens: Oil, Sanctions, and Underdevelopment. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2002. x, 179 pp.

Anthony Arnove, ed., Iraq Under Siege: The Deadly Impact of Sanctions and War. Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 2000. 216 pp. Updated ed.: Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 2002. 262 pp.

Barbara Nimri Aziz, Swimming Up the Tigris: Real Life Encounters with Iraq. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2007. xviii, 314 pp. Aziz, an anthropologist, arrived in Iraq in 1989. The main emphasis of the book is on conditions under the US-led embargo after 1991, but there are also comments on events of 2003 and after. Bitterly critical of US policy.

Peter P. Bartos, "A Day on Northern Watch: November 2, 2000. Air Power History, Spring 2007, pp. 16-21.

LtCol Ronald J. Brown, Humanitarian Operations in Northern Iraq, 1991: With Marines in Operation Provide Comfort. Washington, D.C.: History and Museums Division, Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps / GPO, 1995. viii, 127 pp.

Daniel L. Byman and Matthew C. Waxman, Confronting Iraq: U.S. Policy and the Use of Force Since the Gulf War. MR-1146-OSD. Santa Monica: Rand, 2000. xxiii, 101 pp.

Patrick Clawson, ed., How Has Saddam Hussein Survived? Economic Sanctions, 1990-93. McNair Paper no. 22. Washington, D.C.: Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University, 1993.

Andrew Cockburn and Patrick Cockburn, Out of the Ashes: The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein. New York: HarperCollins, 1999. 322 pp.

Dilip Hiro, Iraq: A Report from the Inside. Granta, 2003. 271 pp. Critical of U.S. policy.

House Committee on Armed Services

House Committee on Foreign Affairs/House committee on International Relations

House Committee on National Security

Yasmin Husein Al-Jawaheri, Women in Iraq: The Gender Impact of International Sanctions. Lynne Rienner, 2008. 228 pp.

James Kitfield, "The Highs and Lows of Northern Watch". Air Force Magazine, 85:8 (August 2002).

Sam Pender is a very prolific author, probably self-publishing (Virtualbookworm.com), in this area. Titles include America’s War with Saddam, 1990-2003 (2004, 392 pp.); The Ignored War: America’s War with Saddam, 2/2/91 to 3/19/03 (2004, 292 pp.); Iraq’s Smoking Gun (2004, 356 pp.); Saddam’s Ties to Al Queda (2005, 684 pp.).

Scott Ritter, Endgame: Solving the Iraq Crisis. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999. pb with afterword dated 2002 New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002. 256 pp.

Gordon W. Rudd, Humanitarian Intervention: Assisting the Iraqi Kurds in Operation Provide Comfort, 1991. Washington, D.C.: Center of Military History, 2004. xvi, 280 pp.
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Senate Committee on Armed Services

Senate Committee on the Judiciary

Senate Committee on Foreign Relations

Senate Select Committee on Intelligence

Geoff [Geoffrey Leslie] Simons, The Scourging of Iraq: Sanctions, Law and Natural Justice, 2d ed. New York: VHPS/St. Martin’s, 1998. 384 pp.
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Geoff Simons, Targeting Iraq: Sanctions and Bombing in US Policy. London: Saqi Books, 2002. 274 pp.

Graf H.C. Sponeck, A Different Kind of War: The UN Sanctions Regime in Iraq. New York: Berghahn Books, 2006. xiv, 322 pp.

Status of U.S. Efforts Regarding Iraq's Compliance with United Nations Security Council Resolutions. A series of reports under this title were sent by the President to the Congress.

Scott Taylor, Spinning on the Axis of Evil: America’s War against Iraq. Ottawa: Esprit de Corps Books, 2003. 232 pp. Among other things, this book recounts several trips Taylor, a Canadian journalist, made to Iraq between the two U.S. wars.

A Timothy Warnock, Short of War: Major USAF Contingency Operations. Washington, D.C.: Air Force History and Museums Program/Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Air University Press, 2000. xxix, 274 pp.

Lt. Col. Paul K. White, USAF, Crises After the Storm: An Appraisal of U.S. Airpower in Iraq since 1991. Military Research Papers, #2. Washington: Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 1999. 93 pp.

 

The Oil-for-Food Program

Jeffrey A. Meyer and Mark G. Califano, Good Intentions Corrupted: The Oil-for-Food Program and the Threat to the U.N. Introduction by Paul A. Volcker. New York: PublicAffairs, 2006. xl, 275 pp.

House Committee on Commerce

House Committee on Energy and Commerce

Senate Committee on Foreign Relations

House Committee on Government Reform

House Committee on International Relations

 

WMDs and Accusations about Iraqi Links with Al Qaeda

James Bamford, A Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America’s Intelligence Agencies. New York: Doubleday (Random House), 2004. 420 pp. Paperback [with a substantial afterword added, pp. 379-423] New York: Anchor (Random House), 2005. 472 pp.

Rod Barton, The Weapons Detective: The Inside Story of Australia's Top Weapons Inspector. Melbourne, Australia: Black Inc. Agenda, 2006. x, 278 pp. Most of this deals with Barton's investigations of Iraqi WMD programs.

Hans Blix, Disarming Iraq. New York: Pantheon, 2004. x, 285 pp.

Richard Butler, The Greatest Threat: Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction, and the Crisis of Global Security. New York: PublicAffairs, 2000. xxiv, 262 pp. Butler was the former chairman of UNSCOM.

Rodger W. Claire, Raid on the Sun: Inside Israel's Secret Campaign That Denied Saddam the Bomb. Broadway, 2004. 256 pp. The June 1981 air strike against the Osirak nuclear reactor.

Stu Cohen, "Iraq's WMD Programs: Culling Hard Facts from Soft Myths." CIA, November 23, 2003. A defense of the pre-war estimates.

Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction [Laurence Silberman and Charles S. Robb, co-chairmen], Report to the President of the United States, March 31, 2005. xi, 601 pp.
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Comprehensive Report of the Special Advisor to the DCI on Iraq's WMD, With Addendums (The Duelfer Report). Central Intelligence Agency, 2005. The original report was dated September 30, 2004. The addenda were added in March 2005.

Bob Drogin, Curveball: Spies, Lies, and the Con Man Who Caused a War. New York: Random House, 2007. xxi, 343 pp. Drogin is a journalist, with the Los Angeles Times.

Charles Duelfer, Hide and Seek: The Search for Truth in Iraq. New York: PublicAffairs, 2009. xix, 523 pp. Duelfer was deputy chairman of UNSCOM, the United Nations organization attempting to monitor Iraqi weapons programs, from 1993 to 2000. Later he headed the US government’s Iraq Survey Group, and was involved with the interrogation of Saddam Husain.

Peter Eisner and Knut Royce, The Italian Letter: How the Bush Administration Used a Fake Letter to Build the Case for War in Iraq. New York: Rodale Press, 2007. xx, 268 pp. The supposed purchase of uranium from Africa.

Khidir Hamza with Jeff Stein, Saddam’s Bombmaker: The Daring Escape of the Man Who Built Iraq’s Secret Weapon. pb New York: Touchstone (Simon & Schuster), 2001. 352 pp. [There may have been a 2000 hardback].

Stephen F. Hayes, The Connection: How al Qaeda’s Collaboration with Saddam Hussein Has Endangered America. Hayes is a reporter for the Weekly Standard.

Joost R. Hiltermann, A Poisonous Affair: America, Iraq, and the Gassing of Halabja. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xxvii, 314 pp.

Robert Jervis, “Reports, Politics, and Intelligence Failures: The Case of Iraq.” Journal of Strategic Studies, 29:1 (Feb 2006), pp. 3-52. Online to institutions like Clemson that have paid the fee.

House Committee on Foreign Affairs / House Committee on International Relations

Iraq on the Record: The Bush Administration's Public Statements on Iraq. Report, Special Investigations Division, Minority Staff, Committee on Government Reform, House of Representatives, March 16, 2004. iv, 30 pp. Prepared for Rep. Henry A. Waxman.

Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction Programs. Central Intelligence Agency, October 2002. Cover, Key Judgments, and Discussion. 25 pp. Files (maps and photos).

Michael J. Kelly, Ghosts of Halabja: Saddam Hussein and the Kurdish Genocide. Greenwood, 2009. 181 pp.

Jean E. Krasno and James E. Sutterlin, The United Nations and Iraq: Defanging the Viper. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003. 264 pp. A study of UNSCOM, apparently focused on 1991-1998.

Mahdi Obeidi and Kurt Pitzer, The Bomb in My Garden: The Secrets of Saddam’s Nuclear Mastermind. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2004. xiii, 242 pp. Favorably reviewed by Hayden Peake, .

Jane Mayer, The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideas. Doubleday, 2008. 400 pp. Mayer writes for the New Yorker.

Shlomo Nakdimon, First Strike: The Exclusive Story of How Israel Foiled Iraq's Attempt to Get the Bomb. Summit Books, 1987. 353 pp. The June 1981 air strike against the Osirak nuclear reactor.

Monica Prasad, et al., "'There Must Be a Reason': Osama, Saddam, and Inferred Justification", Sociological Inquiry, 79:2 (May 2009), pp. 142-162. Looks at why so many Americans have believed, in the face of the evidence, that Saddam Hussein had been responsible for 9/11.

Reports of Weapons of Mass Destruction Findings in Iraq. Hearing, House Committee on Armed Services, June 29, 2006. iii, 105 pp.
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Craig R. Whitney, ed., The WMD Mirage: Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War. New York: Public Affairs, 2005. xxvii, 671 pp.

Joseph Wilson, The Politics of Truth: Inside the Lies that Led to War and Betrayed My Wife’s CIA Identity. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2004. 513 pp. After Wilson publicly denounced an inaccurate statement by President Bush about Iraq's nuclear weapons program, White House officials leaked to various reporters the fact that his wife (below) worked for the CIA.

Valerie Plame Wilson, Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007. 320 pp.

 

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General and Miscellaneous

Tariq Ali, Bush in Babylon: The Recolonisation of Iraq. London and New York: Verso, 2003. x, 214 pp. Very critical of U.S. policy, from a leftist perspective.

Yossef Bodansky, The Secret History of the Iraq War. New York: ReganBooks (HarperCollins), 2004. 570 pp. I have not read this book, but I have been told that in it Bodansky, ex-director of the Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare, makes statements I find most improbable, such as that Saddam Husayn was deeply involved with al-Qa'ida; that he dispatched a 500-man terrorist battalion to North America in 2002; and that Iraqi forces were armed with WMDs that have been hidden in Syria or buried in the Iraqi desert. The book has a some bibliographic information but no source notes.

Scott A. Bonn, "Whoppers of Mass Deception (WMD): Presidential Rhetoric, Moral Panic and the War in Iraq." Ph.D. dissertation, Sociology, University of Miami, 2007. xi, 216 pp. AAT 3267688.

Colonel Walter J. Boyne, USAF (Ret.), Operation Iraqi Freedom: What Went Right, What Went Wrong, and Why. New York: Forge (Tom Doherty Associates), 2003. 304 pp.

Robert K. Brigham, Is Iraq Another Vietnam? New York: PublicAffairs, 2006. xv, 207 pp. I don't know whether any modifications were made in the paperback edition, Iraq, Vietnam, and the Limits of American Power. New York: PublicAffairs, 2008.

Matthew Currier Burden, The Blog of War: Front-Line Dispatches from Soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006. 191 pp. I am told this is made up predominantly of the writings of soldiers who support the war and U.S. policy.

Kenneth J. Campbell, A Tale of Two Quagmires: Iraq, Vietnam, and the Hard Lessons of War. Boulder, Colorado: Paradigm Publishers, 2007. 160 pp. Very anti-war. The author served in Vietnam.

Rodney P. Carlisle, Iraq War. Facts on File, 2004. 176 pp. Facts on File, 2007. 208 pp. For young readers.

Christopher Cerf and Micah L. Sifry, eds., The Iraq War Reader: History, Documents, Opinions. Touchstone, 2003. 736 pp.

Alexander Cockburn (and Jeffrey St. Clair?), Imperial Crusades: Iraq, Afghanistan and Yugoslavia: A Diary of Three Wars. London and New York: Verso, 2004. 378 pp.

Patrick Cockburn, The Occupation: War and Resistance in Iraq. London and New York: Verso, 2006. 229 pp. Cockburn, a British journalist who wrote for the Independent and the London Review of Books, arrived in Iraq just before the war began in 2003, and stayed covering the insurgency.

Joseph J. Collins, Choosing War: The Decision to Invade Iraq and Its Aftermath. Washington, D.C.: National Defense University Press, 2008. x, 43 pp. Institute for National Strategic Studies Occasional Paper 5. Includes discussion of prewar planning for postwar Iraq, not just of the decision to have a war.

Anthony H. Cordesman, The Iraq War: Strategy, Tactics, and Military Lessons. Westport: Praeger, 2003. xiv, 572 pp.

Paul Cornish, ed., The Conflict in Iraq, 2003. New York: St. Martin’s, 2004. 297 pp.

Sara Daniel, Voyage to a Stricken Land: Four Years on the Ground Reporting from Iraq: A Woman’s Inside Story. Translated from the French by George Holoch. New York: Arcade Publishing, 2006. xii, 193 pp. A French journalist, who had previously worked in the U.S. and Jordan, and who in Iraq covered both Americans and insurgents.

Steve Davies, F-15C/E Eagle Units of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Oxford, UK: Osprey Publishing, 2004. 96 pp.

James DeFronzo, The Iraq War: Origins and Consequences. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press (Perseus), 2010. xi, 323 pp. Four chapters on Iraq up to 1990, one on the 1990-91 crises, and five on the US-Iraq War that began in 2003, and its implications and results.

Lt. Gen. Michael DeLong, USMC, Ret., with Noah Lukeman, Inside CentCom: The Unvarnished Truth About the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Washington, DC: Regnery, 2004. xviii, 222 pp. “Rifle” DeLong was deputy commander of CENTCOM.

Howard A. DeWitt, The Road to Baghdad. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt, 2003. 158 pp.

Larry Diamond, Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq. New York: Times Books/Henry Holt, 2005. 369 pp. Diamond was in Iraq as an adviser to the Coalition Provisional Authority from January to April 2004.

Thomas Donnelly, Operation Iraqi Freedom: A Strategic Assessment. Washington, D.C.: American Enterprise Institute, 2004. xvi, 123 pp.

John Dumbrell and David Ryan, eds., Vietnam in Iraq: Tactics, Lessons, Legacies and Ghosts. New York: Routledge (Taylor & Francis), 2007. xi, 240 pp.

James Fallows, Blind Into Baghdad: America’s War in Iraq. New York: Vintage (Random House), 2006. xxv, 229 pp.

Amer Faris (pseud), Red Flags: Memoir of an Iraqi Conscript Trapped Between Enemy Lines in the 2003 Invasion of Iraq. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2009 (forthcoming).

Rick Fawn and Raymond A. Hinnebusch, eds., The Iraq War: Causes and Consequences. Lynne Rienner, 2006. 357 pp. The essays tend to be hostile to U.S. policy, and many deal with the view of a variety of nations in Europe, the Middle East, and elsewhere.

Mike Ferner, Inside the Red Zone: A Veteran for Peace Reports from Iraq. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2006. xv, 164 pp.

Alan Feuer, Over There: From the Bronx to Baghdad. New York: Counterpoint, 2005. ix, 283 pp.

Dexter Filkins, The Forever War. New York: Knopf, 2008. 368 pp. Filkins is a correspondent for the New York Times, previously for the Los Angeles Times. The first three chapters are about Afghanistan, 1998 to 2001, but the bulk of the book is about Iraq, from 2003 onward.

Lauri S. Friedman, ed., The Iraq War. Detroit: Greenhaven, 2008. 111 pp. A guide for young readers on how to write a persuasive essay on the Iraq War.

From the Editors of Time, 21 Days to Baghdad: The Inside Story of How America Won the War Against Iraq. New York: Time Books, 2003. 176 pp. Mostly pictures; a moderate amount of text, pretty enthusiastic about the war.

Lloyd C. Gardner and Marilyn B. Young, eds., Iraq and the Lessons of Vietnam, Or, How Not to Learn from the Past. New York: The New Press, 2007. 322 pp.

Charles Glass, The Northern Front: A Wartime Diary. Foreword by P.J. O’Rourke. London: Saqi, 2006. 275 pp. In January 2003, Glass accompanied some of the exile leaders (including Kanan Makiya and Ahmad Chalabi) to Iraqi Kurdistan (going in through Iran), to await the coming war there.

Michael R. Gordon and General Bernard E Trainor, Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq. New York: Pantheon, 2006. xxxii, 603 pp.

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

Andrew M. Greeley, A Stupid, Unjust, and Criminal War: Iraq, 2001-2007. Orbis, 2007. 215 pp.

La guerre en Irak, le livre noir. Documents reunis at presentes par Reporters san frontieres. Preface de Robert Menard, postface d’Olivier Weber. Paris: Editions la Decouverte, 2004. 219 pp. A collection of reports by Human Rights Watch and other groups about human rights violations during the American war.

Lance Gabriel Hampton, "Justifications for the Iraq War: An Analysis of the Government's Public Case for War, 2001 to 2003." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Pittsburgh, 2008. xiv, 217 pp. AAT 3322314.

Christopher T. Harrison, "The Developmental Implications of Image Theory in Inciting a Population to War: A Content Analysis of Bush Administration Discourse Leading to the Iraq War." Ph.D. dissertation, Clinical Psychology, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, Palo Alto, California, 2009. xi, 289 pp. AAT 3354726.

David M. Haugen, Susan Musser, and Kacy Lovelace, eds., Iraq: Opposing Viewpoints. Greenhaven, 2009. 186 pp. For young readers, grades 10-12.

Dan Hayden, Iraq: In the Crosshairs of Destiny. Advantage Inspirational, 2008. 180 pp. The approach seems to be based on Bible prophecy.

Tom Hayden, Ending the War in Iraq. New York: Akashic Books, 2007. 217 pp. Traces the conflicts between antiwar forces and the neoconservatives back to the 1960s.

Michael T. Heaney and Fabio Rojas, "The Place of Framing: Multiple Audiences and Antiwar Protests Near Fort Bragg," Qualitative Sociology, Vol. 29, No. 4 (December 2006): 484-505.

Michael T. Heaney and Fabio Rojas, "Partisans, Nonpartisans, and the Antiwar Movement in the United States," American Politics Research, Vol. 35, No. 4 (July 2007), pp. 431-464. The text is online to users at subscribing institutions.

Seymour M. Hersh, Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib. New York: HarperCollins, 2004. xix, 394 pp.

Christopher Hitchens, A Long Short War: The Postponed Liberation of Iraq. New York: Plume (Penguin), 2003. vi, 104 pp. A collection of essays, generally favoring the idea of war against Iraq, written from November 2002 to April 2003.

Hon. John N. Hostettler, Nothing for the Nation: Who Got What Out of Iraq. Publis, 2008. 126 pp. Hostettler was an anti-war member of the U.S. House of Representatives (Republican of Indiana).

Raphael Israeli, The Iraq War: Hidden Agendas and Babylonian Intrigue: The Regional Impact on Shi’ites, Kurds, Sunnis, and Arabs. Portland, Oregon: Sussex Academic Press, 2004. x, 278 pp.
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Sheila Enslev Johnston, The Iraqi Conflict. Canada: Altitude Publishing, 2008. 192 pp. Johnston is a former Canadian Army officer and a student of military affairs, but the publisher’s publicity does not mention any particular qualifications regarding Iraq.

John Keegan, The Iraq War. New York: Knopf, 2004. 272 pp. I usually like Keegan's work, but I saw more errors in this one than I had expected.

Michael Knights, ed., Operation Iraqi Freedom and the New Iraq: Insights and Forecasts. Washington: Washington Institute for New East Policy, 2004. 375 pp.

Jim Lacey and Sharon Tosi Moore, eds., Fresh from the Fight: The Invasion and Occupation of Iraq: An Anthology of National War College Studies by American Combat Commanders. Zenith Press, 2008.

Michael A. Ledeen, The Iranian Time Bomb: The Mullah Zealots' Quest for Destruction. New YOrk: Truman Talley Books/St. Martin's, 2007. 234 pp. Judging from the review in the New York Times Book Review, September 9, 2007, this seems to be a rather silly book, arguing that Iran has been controlling the Sunni insurgency in Iraq, and controlling Al Qaeda. Ledeen works at the American Enterprise Institute.

James M. Ludes, ed., Iraq Uncensored: Perspectives. Fulcrum Publishing, 2009. Foreword by Senator John Kerry. 288 pp. Produced by a think tank called the American Security Project.

Matthew McAllester, Blinded by the Sunlight: Surviving Abu Ghraib and Saddam’s Iraq. New York: HarperCollins, 2005. 284 pp.

Thomas G. Mahnken and Thomas A. Keaney, eds., War in Iraq: Planning and Execution. New YorK: Routledge, 2007. xix, 263 pp. This collection of essays is said to be very good, but the price is unreasonable.

Camilo Mejía, Road from Ar Ramadi: The Private Rebellion of Staff Sergeant Camilo Mejía. New York: New Press, 2007. 312 pp. Camilo Mejia went into Iraq, probably in April 2003 (though I didn’t see a date on a brief scan) with C Company, 1-124 Infantry, Florida National Guard. In 2004 he applied for a CO discharge from the National Guard; he ended up being prosecuted for desertion. Apparently a pretty negative picture of US operations in the Sunni Triangle.

Richard F. Miller, A Carrier at War: On Board the USS Kitty Hawk in the Iraq War. Washington, D.C.: Potomac Books, 2005. xii, 243 pp. Miller, an amateur historian of the Civil War, was embedded aboard the Kitty Hawk, as a correspondent for Talk Radio New Service, from March 9 to March 23, 2003.

Carl Mirra, Soldiers and Citizens: An Oral History of Operation Iraqi Freedom from the Battlefield to the Pentagon. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. 224 pp.

Greg Mitchell, So Wrong for So Long: How the Press, the Pundits--and the President--Failed on Iraq. New York: Sterling, 2008. 298 pp.

Thomas R. Mockaitis, The Iraq War: Learning from the Past, Adapting to the Present, and Planning for the Future. Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, 2007. vi, 64 pp.

Williamson Murray and Major General Robert H. Scales, Jr., The Iraq War: A Military History. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003. 368 pp.

Laurie Mylroie, The War Against America: Saddam Hussein and the World Trade Center Attacks: A Study of Revenge. 2nd rev. ed. Foreword by R. James Woolsey. pb New York: ReganBooks (HarperCollins), 2001. xxviii, 318 pp. Front cover blurb by Paul Wolfowitz. The original was Study of Revenge: Saddam Hussein’s Unfinished War Against America. Washington, D.C.: American Enterprise Press, 2000. xviii, 323 pp.

Laurie Mylroie, Bush vs. the Beltway: How the CIA and the State Department Tried to Stop the War on Terror. New York: ReganBooks (HarperCollins), 2003. 258 pp. Paperback with altered subtitle Bush vs. the Beltway: The Inside Battle over War in Iraq. New York: ReganBooks (HarperCollins), 2004. 286 pp. Judging by the description in AFIO WIN 08/16/04, this is pretty fanciful about links between Saddam and Al Quaeda, related issues.

Erick W. Nason, From Desert Storm to Iraqi Freedom: One Soldier's Story. Bloomington, Indiana: AuthorHOuse, 2006. 251 pp. Nason as a Special Forces soldier did SAR during Desert Storm; he was in northern Iraq in 2003, and later in Baghdad.

Off target: The Conduct of the War and Civilian Casualties in Iraq. New York : Human Rights Watch, 2003. 141 pp.

George Packer, The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005. 467 pp.

Salam Pax (pseud.), The Clandestine Diary of an Ordinary Iraqi. New York: Grove Press, 2003. xiv, 206 pp. An Iraqi architect who began blogging in September 2002.

Stephen C. Pelletière, Losing Iraq: Insurgency and Politics. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2007. xi, 151 pp.

David L. Phillips, Losing Iraq: Inside the Postwar Reconstruction Fiasco. Boulder: Westview (Perseus), 2005. ix, 292 pp. Phillips was with the State Department’s Future of Iraq Project, which DoD shoved aside during the runup to the war.

RAND Corporation (Previously, Rand Corporation). This "think tank" does a lot of research and analysis work on contract for the Defense Department. Most RAND publications can be purchased in hard copy through the RAND Corporation online bookstore, but many also can be read online for free. Some RAND Corporation publications listed under Theories of Limited War and Counterinsurgency also contain discussion of operations in Iraq since 2003.

Jeffrey Record, Dark Victory: America’s Second War against Iraq. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2004. xv, 203 pp.

Judith Regan, ed., The War in Iraq: A Photo History. New York: ReganBooks (HarperCollins), 2003. 373 pp. A large-format photo book whose body is devoid of text; the photo captions are on the contents/credits pages, pp. 368-373.

Thomas E. Ricks, Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq. New York: Penguin, 2006. xiv, 482 pp. A very convincing account.

Pierre Rigoulet and Michel Taubmann, eds., Irak, An 1: Un autre regard sur un monde en guerre. (Paris?): Editions du Rocher, 2004. Stephane Courtois, et. al.; a relatively pro-American view.

Les Roberts et. al., "Mortality Before and After the 2003 Invasion of Iraq: Cluster Sample Survey." The Lancet, 20 November 2004 (Vol. 364, No. 9448), pp. 1857-1864. Deaths during the 17.8 months after the March 2003 beginning of the invasion were compared with deaths during the 14.6 months before the invasion (January 2002 onward). See also later version (2006).

Paul William Roberts, A War Against Truth: An Intimate Account of the Invasion of Iraq. Vancouver: Raincoast Books, 2004. 366 pp. Also published as A War Against Truth: Behind the Lines in the Invasion of Iraq. South Yarra, Vic.: Hardie Grant, 2004. 366 pp. By a Canadian journalist, apparently very hostile to US policy.

Aram Roston, The Man Who Pushed America to War: The Extraordinary Life, Adventures, and Obsessions of Ahmad Chalabi. New York: Nation Books, 2008. xiv, 369 pp.

Lawrence Rothfield, The Rape of Mesopotamia: Behind the Looting of the Iraq Museum. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. xii, 216 pp. The topic is broader than the subtitle suggests; the book deals with a lot of issues relating to antiquities in Iraq, including the looting of archaelogical sites.

Michael Schwartz, War Without End: The Iraq War in Context. Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2008. 335 pp. Very hostile to U.S. policy.

Anthony Shadid, Night Draws Near: Iraq’s People in the Shadow of America’s War. New York: Henry Holt, 2005. xiv, 424 pp. Shadid, who speaks Arabic, reported from Iraq in 1998 for AP; late in 2002 for the Boston Globe; and from March 2003 to June 2004 for the Washington Post.

Joseph E. Stiglitz and Linda J. Bilmes, The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict. New York: Norton, 2008. 192 pp. The estimate looks a bit high to me.

Jay Stout, Hammer from Above: Marine Air Combat Over Iraq. Presidio, 2005. 416 pp.

David Turnley, Baghdad Blues: A War Diary. New York: Magowan Publishing/Vendome Press, 2003. 160 pp. Turnley, a photojournalist working for CNN, went from Turkey into Syria and then into Iraq, where he traveled with peshmerga and got to Baghdad on April 11, 2003. pp. 9-39 are Turnley’s diary from March 20 to April 15. pp. 40-153 are large color photos. pp. 154-157 are the captions for the photos.

"U.S. Military Operations in Iraq: Planning, Combat, and Occupation". Conference sponsored by Johns Hopkins’ SAIS and the U.S. Army’s Strategic Studies Institute, November 2, 2005. Summaries of papers presented at Session 1, “Defeating the Iraqi Regime.” 7 pp. Summaries of papers presented by Conrad Crane, LTC Richard Lacquement, and Nora Bensahel, at Session 2, “Reconstructing Iraq: U.S. Military Operations in Iraq: Planning, Combat and Occupation.” 7 pp. Summaries of papers presented at Session 3, “Countering the Insurgency.” 5 pp. Summaries of discussion by Thomas Ricks and LTG Mick Trainor, USMC (ret.), at Session 4, “Lessons, Controversies, and Questions.” 4 pp.

LCDR David Walch, Interview, March 29, 2005. Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas: Combat Studies Institute, 2005. 16 pp. Walch was the intelligence officer for Carrier Air Wing Eight, on U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt, in the Eastern Mediterranean March-April 2003. The interesting thing is that Iraq’s integrated air defense system had not been attrited as much as expected, because the war didn’t start with an air-only phase, and the emphasis of early air strikes was against leadership rather than against air defense (pp. 12-13).

Worth H. Weller, ed., Bulletins from Baghdad--Making Peace in a Time of War: The Story of Christian Peacemaker Teams in Iraq, 2002-2003. North Manchester, IN: DeWitt Books, (2003? This title was announced, but I have been unable to find evidence it was ever actually published.)

Kevin M. Woods, with Michael R. Pease, Mark E. Stout, Williamson Murray, and James G. Lacey, Iraqi Perspectives Project: A View of Operation Iraqi Freedom from Saddam’s Senior Leadership. Washington, D.C.: Joint Center for Operational Analysis and GPO, 2006. xi, 210 pp.

Thomas W. Young, The Speed of Heat: An Airlift Wing at War in Iraq and Afghanistan. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2008. x, 263 pp. The 167th Airlift Wing of the West Virginia Air National Guard, which operated C-130 cargo planes. Young, a former reporter with AP, served in the unit.

 

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Christian Alfonsi, Circle in the Sand: Why We Went Back to Iraq. New York: Doubleday, 2006. 466 pp.

Major General Jonathan B.A. Bailey, British Army (ret.), “Over by Christmas”: Campaigning, Delusions and Force Requirements. Land Warfare Papers, No. 51W. Arlington, VA: Institute of Land Warfare, Association of the United States Army, September 2005. v, 23 pp. A comparative study with cases going back to the Russo-Japanese War.

Joyce Battle and Thomas Blanton, eds., Top Secret Polo Step. Electronic Briefing Book No. 214. National Security Archive, Feb 14, 2007. Power point slides prepared at various dates in 2002, for top level briefings (including to Bush and Rumsfeld) on plans for invasion of Iraq. The phrase “Shock and Awe” appears in Tab I (15 August 2002), page 3; Tab K, slide 3, 5 (former almost identical to Tab J, slide 1). Tab K [said to have been used in briefing Bush and the NSC 8/5/02] projects 5 days of air operations beginning 3 March [!!!], followed by 125 days of ground operations, followed by a stabilization phase of no more than 45 months, at the end of which US forces down to 5,000.

Jeremy Brecher, Jill Cutler, and Brendan Smith, eds., In the Name of Democracy: American War Crimes in Iraq and Beyond: The American Empire Project. Henry Holt, 2005. 332 pp. Looks strongly hostile to U.S. policy.

Susan A. Brewer, Why America Fights: Patriotism and War Propaganda from the Philippines to Iraq. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. x, 342 pp. The second US-Iraq War is pp.230-275 (the first was not covered).

Vincent Bugliosi, The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder. Vanguard Press, 2008. 352 pp. Argues that President Bush is criminally responsible for the deaths of the U.S. military personnel who have died in Iraq.

Elisabeth Bumiller, Condoleezza Rice: An American Life. New York: Random House, 2007. xxviii, 400 pp. Rice cooperated with Bumiller (of the New York Times), but my impression is that the book is supposed to be fairly critical.

Christopher Cerf and Victor S. Navasky, eds., Mission Accomplished! Or How We Won the War in Iraq: The Experts Speak. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008. xiii, 273 pp. A collection of statements most of which turned out looking false or silly, by politicians, academics, and journalists. With source notes.

Thomas Cushman, ed., A Matter of Principle: Humanitarian Arguments for War in Iraq. University of California Press, 2005.

John Davis, ed., Presidential Policies and the Road to the Second Iraq War: From Forty One to Forty Three. Ashgate, 2006. 326 pp.

Aaron M. Dimock, "Public deliberation and going to war: Examining city council resolutions on Iraq." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Colorado at Boulder, 2006. 367 pp. AAT 3219023.

Robert Draper, Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush. The Free Press, 2007. 480 pp. Draper, a journalist the Bush White House trusts more than most, got interviews with most of the key figures, including about six hours with Bush.

Charles Duelfer, Hide and Seek: The Search for Truth in Iraq. New York: PublicAffairs, 2009. xix, 523 pp. Duelfer was deputy chairman of UNSCOM, the United Nations organization attempting to monitor Iraqi weapons programs, from 1993 to 2000. Later he headed the US government’s Iraq Survey Group, and was involved with the interrogation of Saddam Husain.

John S. Duffield and Peter J. Dombrowski, eds., Balance Sheet: The Iraq War and U.S. National Security. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009.

Don Eberly, Liberate and Leave: Fatal Flaws in the Early Strategy for Postwar Iraq. Minneapolis, MN: Zenith (MBI Publishing), 2009. ix, 310 pp. Eberly was a senior adviser first to Jay Garner and then to Paul Bremer.

Douglas Feith, War and Decision: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism. New York: Harper, 2008. xiv, 674 pp.

Ari Fleischer, Taking Heat: The President, the Press, and My Years in the White House. New York: Morrow (HarperCollins), 2005. xv, 381 pp.

David Frum and Richard N. Perle, An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror. New York: Random House, 2003. 284 pp.

Peter W. Galbraith, Unintended Consequences: How War in Iraq Strengthened America’s Enemies. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008. 224 pp.

Barton Gellman, Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency. New York: Penguin, 2008. 483 pp.

Stefan Halper and Jonathan Clarke, America Alone: The Neo-Conservatives and the Global Order. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge UP, 2004. xii, 369 pp. Looks at the role of the Neocons in Bush administration post-9/11 policy, particularly the decision to invade Iraq.

Stefan Halper and Jonathan Clarke, The Silence of the Rational Center: Why American Policy is Failing. Basic Books, 2007. 312 pp.

Lance Gabriel Hampton, "Justifications for the Iraq War: An analysis of the government's public case for war, 2001 to 2003." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Pittsburgh, 2008. 231 pp. AAT 3322314.

Stephen John Hartnett and Laura Ann Stengrim, Globalization and Empire: The U.S. Invasion of Iraq, Free Markets, and the Twilight of Democracy. University of Alabama Press, 2006.

Craig Arthur Hayden, "The vulcan rhetoric of crisis: Presidential advisors and the war in Iraq". Ph.D. dissertation, Communication, University of Southern California, 2007. vi, 335 pp. AAT 3262750. The main focus in on Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Cheney, and Colin Powell.

Gregory Hooker, Shaping the Plan for Operation Iraqi Freedom: The Role of Military Intelligence Assessments. Military Research Papers, #4. Washington: Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 2005. xiv, 114 pp. Hooker was CENTCOM’s senior intelligence analyst for Iraq; had been an UNSCOM inspector in 1996 and 1998.
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Russ Hoyle, Going to War: How Misinformation, Disinformation, and Arrogance Led America into Iraq. New York: Thomas Dunne Books (St. Martin’s Press), 2008. xvii, 526 pp.

Michael Isikoff and David Corn, Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War. New York: Crown, 2006. xii, 463 pp. Isikoff is with Newsweek, Corn with The Nation. They seem to have good sources inside the intelligence community.

Dominic D.P. Johnson, Overconfidence and War: The Havoc and Glory of Positive Illusions. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004. 280 pp. One chapter--about 30 pages--is devoted to the second US-Iraq War.

Colin H. Kahl, Michèle A. Flournoy, and Shawn Brimley, Shaping the Iraq Inheritance. Washington, D.C.: Center for a New American Security, June 2008. 51 pp. Advocates a policy of "conditional engagement," pressuring Iraqi leaders into political accommodation with one another by making this a condition for continued American support.

Lawrence F. Kaplan and William Kristol, The War Over Iraq: Saddam’s Tyranny and America’s Mission. San Francisco: Encounter Books, 2003. x, 153 pp. Urging that the United States use military force to overthrow Saddam Hussein.

Brian Katulis, Marc Lynch, and Peter Juul, Iraq's Political Transition After the Surge. Washington, D.C.: Center for American Progress, September 2008. 30 pp. Argues that the continued presence of large American forces in Iraq is not promiting the political accommodation within the country that is needed.

Glenn Kessler, The Confidante: Condoleezza Rice and the Creation of the Bush Legacy. New York: St. Martin’s, 2007. 304 pp. Rice cooperated with Kessler (of the Washington Post), but apparently this is fairly critical.

James Kitfield, War and Destiny: How the Bush Revolution in Foreign and Military Affairs Redefined American Power. Washington DC: Potomac Books, 2005. xiv, 386 pp. pb Washington DC: Potomac Books, 2007. 400 pp. Kitfield was embedded with V Corps forward HQ in the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

Scott McClellan, What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception. New York: PublicAffairs, 2008. xiv, 341 pp. McClellan was the White House press secretary.

Richard M. Miller, Jr., Funding Extended Conflicts: Korea, Vietnam, and the War on Terror. Westport, CT: Praeger Security International, 2007. xviii, 179 pp.

David Matthew Monje, "Making enemies: Articulations of the 'enemy' in the War on Terror". Ph.D. dissertation, Communications, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2007. vii, 246 pp. AAT 3290323

James Moore, Bush’s War for Reelection: Iraq, the White House, and the People. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2004. xviii, 382 pp.

F. Ugboaja Ohaegbulam, A Culture of Deference: Congress, The President, and the Course of the U.S.-Led Invasion and Occupation of Iraq. Peter Lang, 2007. 309 pp.

Robert Parry, Sam Parry, and Nat Parry, Neck Deep: The Disastrous Presidency of George W. Bush. The Media Consortium, 2007. 428 pp.

Robert J. Pauly, Jr., and Tom Lansford, Strategic Preemption: US Foreign Policy and the Second Iraq War. Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate, 2004. 182 pp.

Ilan Peleg, The Legacy of George W. Bush's Foreign Policy: Moving Beyond Neoconservativism. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 2009. xv, 202 pp. Argues that the neoconservative policies of the Bush administration represented a radical break with previous American policies.

James P. Pfiffner and Mark Phythian, eds., Intelligence and National Security Policymaking on Iraq: British and American Perspectives. Manchester University Press, 2008. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2008. xiii, 296 pp. Essays are pp. 1-243; excerpts from key speeches and documents are pp. 245-290.

William Rivers Pitt, with Scott Ritter, War on Iraq: What Team Bush Doesn’t Want You to Know. Context Books, 2002. 96 pp.

Norman Podhoretz, World War IV: The Long Struggle Against Islamofascism. Doubleday, 2007. 230 pp. Judging from the review in the New York Times Book Review, September 9, 2007, this seems to be a rather silly book.

John Prados, Hoodwinked: The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a War. New York: The New Press, 2004. xvii, 375 pp.

Todd S. Purdum and the staff of the New York Times, A Time of Our Choosing: America’s War in Iraq. New York: Times Books/Henry Holt, 2003. xiv, 319 pp.

Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber, Weapons of Mass Deception: The Uses of Propaganda in Bush’s War on Iraq. Tarcher (Penguin), 2003. 256 pp.

Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber, The Best War Ever: Lies, Damned Lies, and the Mess in Iraq. New York: Tarcher/Penguin, 2006. x, 258 pp.

Report on Prewar Intelligence Assessments about Postwar Iraq together with Additional and Minority Views. Report, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, May 25, 2007. 226 pp.
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Frank Rich, The Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Fall of Truth from 9/11 to Katrina. New York: Penguin, 2006. 341 pp. Supposed to be good.

Gary Rosen, ed., The Right War? The Conservative Debate on Iraq. Cambridge University Press, 2005. ix, 254 pp.

Kenneth Roth, "Was the Iraq War a Humanitarian Intervention?" Journal of Military Ethics, 5:2 (2006), pp. 84-92. The text is available online if you are browsing the Internet from an institution that has paid the fee for Taylor & Francis Journals.

Paul Rutherford, Weapons of Mass Persuasion: Marketing the War Against Iraq. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004. xii, 226 pp.

Michael Scheuer, Marching Toward Hell: America and Islam After Iraq. New York: Free Press, 2008. 384 pp.

Michael N. Schmitt, "The Legality of Operation Iraqi Freedom under International Law." Journal of Military Ethics, 3:2 (June 2004), pp. 82-104. The text is available online if you are browsing the Internet from an institution that has paid the fee for Taylor & Francis Journals.

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Martin Shaw, The New Western Way of War: Risk Transfer and Its Crisis in Iraq. Polity Press, 2005. 164 pp. Argues that policy in recent wars by western powers has been to minimize risk to their own troops, at the cost of transferring risk to civilians, and that this policy has worked badly in Iraq.

Jonathan Steele, Defeat: Why They Lost Iraq. London: I.B. Tauris, 2007. Published in the US as Defeat: Why America and Britain Lost Iraq. Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2008. 290 pp. By a correspondent for The Guardian. He argues that the occupation of Iraq would have had no chance of success even if much better planned.

Transforming Iraq's Economy. Hearing, Joint Economic Committee, June 11, 2003. 85 pp. S. Hrg. 108-220.
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Craig Unger, The Fall of the House of Bush: The Untold Story of How a Band of True Believers Seized the Executive Branch, Started the Iraq War, and Still Imperils America's Future. New York: Scribner, 2007. 448 pp.

U.S. Department of State Electronic Reading Room: Declassified/Released Document Collections: State Department Collections. The State Department as placed online several collections of declassified documents, searchable through the above web page. The collections that relate to Iraq are:

Michael Walzer and Nicolaus Mills, eds., Getting Out: Historical Perspectives on Leaving Iraq. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. 168 pp.

Alan Weisman, Prince of Darkness: Richard Perle: The Kingdom, the Power, and the End of Empire in America. Sterling, 2007. 320 pp.

Bob Woodward, Plan of Attack. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004. 467 pp.

Bob Woodward, The War Within: A Secret White House History, 2006-2008. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008. xvi, 487 pp.

 

International Aspects

Daniel F. Baltrusaitis, "Friends indeed? Coalition burden sharing and the War in Iraq." Ph.D. dissertation, Government, Georgetown University, 2008. xiii, 512 pp. AAT 3320690. Looks at South Korean, Turkish, and German responses to American requests for support in Iraq.

Alastair Campbell, The Blair Years: The Alastair Campbell Diaries. Hutchinson, 2007. 816 pp. pb Arrow Books, 2008. 816 pp. Diaries of British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s press secretary.

Robin Cook, The Point of Departure: Why One of Britain’s Leading Politicians Resigned over Tony Blair’s Decision to Go to War in Iraq. Simon & Schuster, 2004. 384 pp. pb The Point of Departure: Diaries from the Front Bench. Pocket Books, 2004. 432 pp. Cook, Leader of the British House of Commons and former Foreign Secretary, resigned from Tony Blair’s cabinet on March 17, 2003, in protest against the impending war in Iraq.

Mark Danner, The Secret Way to War: The Downing Street Memo and the Iraq War’s Buried History. New York: Random House (New York Review Books?). 176 pp.

Dieter Dettke, Germany Says No: The Iraq War and the Future of German Foreign and Security Policy. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009 (forthcoming).

André Glucksmann, Ouest contre Ouest. Paris: Plon, 2003. 208 pp.

Philip H. Gordon & Jeremy Shapiro, Allies at War: America, Europe, and the Crisis over Iraq. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2004. vi, 266 pp.

John Kampfner, Blair’s Wars. London: The Free Press, 2003. xii, 367 pp. pb with a new preface (and possibly other changes?) The Free Press, 2004. 401 pp.

Steven Kettell, Dirty Politics? New Labour, British Democracy and the Invasion of Iraq. London: Zed Books, 2006. x, 213 pp.

Marcia and Thomas Mitchell, The Spy Who Tried to Stop a War: Katharine Gun and the Secret Plot to Sanction the Iraq Invasion. Polipoint Press, 2008. Gun, a translator at GCHQ, leaked a classified memo about an American program to spy on other countries’ UN delegations during the run-up to the Iraq War in 2003.

Heraldo Muñoz, A Solitary War: A Diplomat’s Chronicle of the Iraq War and Its Lessons. Foreword by Kofi Annan. Golden, Colorado: Fulcrum, 2008. xiii, 270 pp. Munoz was Chile’s ambassador to the United Nations.

Pierre Pean, L’inconnu de l’Elysée. Paris: Fayard, 2007. 600 pp. Argues that Chirac and de Villepin were not nearly so adamantly opposed to going to war in Iraq as has generally been supposed. A big best seller in France.

Dominique Reynié, La fracture occidentale: naissance d'une opinion européenne. Paris: Table Ronde, 2004. 203 pp.

Simon Serfaty, Architects of Delusion: Europe, America, and the Iraq War. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. Looks mainly at the U.S., Britain, France, and Germany.

William Shawcross, Allies: The U.S., Britain, Europe, and the War in Iraq. New York: PublicAffairs, 2004. viii, 261 pp.

Clare Short, An Honourable Deception? New Labour, Iraq, and the Misuse of Power. Free Press, 2005. Short resigned from the British cabinet in 2003 because of her opposition to the Iraq War. Judging from reader comments on amazon.uk, this might be more about British politics, and less about Iraq, than the title suggests.

Ramesh Thakur and Waheguru Pal Singh Sidhu, eds., The Iraq Crisis And World Order: Structural, Institutional, And Normative Challenges. United Nations University Press, 2006. 549 pp.

Dominique de Villepin, Toward a New World: Speeches, Essays, and Interviews on the War in Iraq, the U.N., and the Changing Face of Europe. Hoboken, NJ: Melville House, 2004. xxix, 427 pp. (French original Un autre monde. L'Herne, 2003.) Part One, "Iraq and War," containing material dated October 1, 2002, to October 18, 2003, is pp. 1-133. "Commentary and Debate," a collection of writings by authors other than de Villepin, is pp. 249-390.

 

For the involvement of British personnel in the 2003 invasion of Iraq, see works by Kevin K. Mervin and Mike Rossiter in the section "On the Ground" (immediately below).
For British involvement in the postwar occupation of Iraq, see works by Andrew Alderson, Mark Etherington, Michael Knights & Ed Williams, Rory Stewart, and Hilary Synnott in the section
Post 2003; and see the section British Military.

 

The Second U.S. - Iraq War: On the Ground

Sgt. 1st Class Frank Antenori, US Army (Retired), and Hans Halberstadt, Roughneck Nine-One: The Extraordinary Story of a Special Forces A-Team at War. New York: St. Martin’s, 2006. pb New York: St. Martin’s, 2007. xx, 265 pp. Includes the Battle of Debecka Crossroads, SW of Irbil, April 6, 2003.

Rick Atkinson, In the Company of Soldiers. 2004. Atkinson, a serious (Pulitzer-winning) military historian and a reporter for the Washington Post, was embedded with the 101st Airborne, spending a lot of time with the commander, Maj. Gen. David H. Petraeus.

Ron Breland, Castles in the Sand. Philadelphia: Xlibris, 2006. 267 pp.

Charles H. Briscoe, et. al, All Roads Lead to Baghdad: Army Special Operations Forces in Iraq. Fort Bragg, North Carolina: USASOC History Office, 2006. xxx, 517 pp.

Todd S. Brown, Battleground Iraq: Journal of a Company Commander. Washington, D.C.: Center of Military History/GPO. xi, 292 pp. Captain Brown was in Iraq April 2003 to March 2004. He went in as a staff officer of the 3d Brigade, 4th Infantry Division. In July 2003 he was given command of B Company, 1-8 Infantry.
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Steve Call, Danger Close: Tactical Air Controllers in Afghanistan and Iraq. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2007. xix, 250 pp. Afghanistan up to late March 2002, around the end of Operation Anaconda. The initial stage of the war in Iraq, up to April 2003. Has discussion of the politics of relations between air and ground commanders.

Capt. Jason Conroy and Ron Martz, Heavy Metal: A Tank Company’s Battle to Baghdad. Dulles, VA: Potomac Books, 2005. xxi, 288 pp. Conroy commanded C Company, Task Force 1-64, 2nd Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division. Martz was a journalist embedded in the unit.

Christine Cook, Living on Tattooine (a.k.a. Kuwait). Ann Arbor, Michigan: Porch Swing Press, 2005. 245 pp. Cook served in the 163d Personnel Services Battalion.

John R. Crawford , The Last True Story I’ll Ever Tell: An Accidental Soldier’s Account of the War in Iraq. New York: Riverhead, 2005. xiv, 219 pp. Crawford was in a National Guard unit that was in Iraq for more than a year 2003-4, being shifted around among various parent units.

Thomas L. Day, Along the Tigris: The 101st Airborne Division in Operation Iraqi Freedom: February 2003 to March 2004. Atglen, PA: Schiffer, 2007. 320 pp.

Col. Gregory Fontenot, Lt. Col. E.J. Degen, and Lt. Col. David Tohn, On Point: The United States Army in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2005. xxiii, 539 pp. Foreword by Gen. Tommy Franks.

Brandon Friedman, The War I Always Wanted: The Illusion of Glory and the Reality of War: A Screaming Eagle in Afghanistan and Iraq. St. Paul, Minnesota: Zenith, 2007. 254 pp.

Aaron Glantz, How America Lost Iraq. New York: Penguin, 2005. viii, 303 pp. Glantz was an antiwar reporter for Pacifica Radio, who was startled to see how U.S. was welcomed to Baghdad in 2003, wondered how he had been wrong, but then saw the popularity squandered.

Jason Christopher Hartley, Just Another Soldier: A Year on the Ground in Iraq. New York: HarperCollins, 2005. 328 pp. He was in a National Guard Unit that was activated in October 2003, went to Kuwait in February 2004, went to Iraq in March. Attached to the 1st Infantry Division.

J.B. Hogan, From Basic to Baghdad: A Soldier Writes Home. Chesworld, DE: Brave Ideas, 2005. xvii, 250 pp.

Paul Holton, Saving Babylon: The Heart of an Army Interrogator in Iraq. Provo, UT: Perihelion Press, 2005. xiv, 239 pp. Holton was mobilized in February 2003 as part of a military intelligence battalion. He was at Camp Udairi, later Camp Bucca.

Col. Christopher P. Hughes, War on Two Fronts: An Infantry Commander’s War in Iraq and the Pentagon. Philadelphia: Casemate, 2007. xi, 306 pp. Hughes went into Iraq in March 2003 commanding the 2/327 Infantry, 101st Airborne Division. He later served in the Pentagon.

Satish Jacob, Satish Jacob from Hotel Palestine, Baghdad: Pages from a War Diary. Foreword by Paul Danahar. New Delhi: Rolhi Books, 2003. xxix, 178 pp. Jacob, a BBC correspondent usually based in Delhi, was the only Indian journalist in Baghdad during the 2003 war.

Lt. Col. Thomas L. Kelly and Lt. Col. (Ret.) John P. Andreasen, "Joint Fires: A BCD Perspective in Operation Iraqi Freedom". Field Artillery, November-December 2003, pp. 20-25.

Lance Kittleson, Meditations from Iraq: A Chaplain’s Ministry in the Middle East. CSS Publishing, 2005. 237 pp. Kittleson, a Lutheran chaplain, served in Iraq 2003-4 with a support unit.

Jim Lacey, Takedown: The 3rd Infantry Division’s Twenty-One Day Assault on Baghdad. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2007. xiii, 267 pp. Lacey, a former Army officer, was working as a journalist, embedded in the 101st Airborne, during the invasion of Iraq.

John C. McManus, The 7th Infantry Regiment: Combat in an Age of Terror: The Korean War Through the Present. Tom Doherty Associates, 2008. 416 pp. A short introduction (pp. 19-24), and an extended section toward the end of the book, cover the second US-Iraq War.

Kevin J. Mervin, Weekend Warrior: A Territorial Soldier’s War in Iraq. Edinburgh and London: Mainstream, 2005. 352 pp. He was in Iraq until April 25, 2003.

Alan D. Meyer, "The SOD-JF in Iraq: A 'Total Force' Success Story." Veritas: Journal of Army Special Operations History, 2:3 (2006), pp. 18-25.

Richard C. Meyer, Four in the Corps: From Boot Camp to Baghdad--One Grunt's Enlistment. iUniverse, 2005. 432 pp. Sergeant Meyer was in the USMC from 2000 to 2004. He served in G Company, 2/5 Marines.

Misleading Information from the Battlefield: The Tillman and Lynch Episodes. First Report by the [House] Committee on Oversight and Government Reform together with Additional Views. House Report 110-858, September 16, 2008. v, 76 pp. Jessica Lynch, a soldier in the U.S. Army's 507th Maintenance Company, was captured by Iraqi forces in An-Nasiriyah on March 23, 2003.

Rory Mulholland, Camp Britney, Tikrit: The Genteel Art of War Reporting. North Charleston, SC: BookSurge, 2005. 197 pp. Diary entries and stories filed by Mulholland, an Irish Reporter working for AFP, 12/21/03 to 1/18/04. He was embedded with the 1/22 (Infantry?), 4th ID, in Tikrit.

Leigh Neville, Special Operations Forces in Iraq. Osprey, 2008. 64 pp. Illustrated. Includes a variety of coalition forces not just U.S.

Rageh Omaar, Revolution Day: The Real Story of the Battle for Iraq. Viking, 2004. pb, apparently an expanded edition, London: Penguin, 2005. xix, 283 pp. Omaar, a Somali, first went to Iraq for the BBC in 1997.

Christian Parenti, The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq. New York: The New Press, 2004. x, 211 pp.

Joshua M. Peters and Josh R. Fansler, Not on My Watch: The 21st Century Combat Medic. Bloomington, IN: Authorhouse, 2005. xxi, 222 pp. Looks as it if covers both Afghanistan and Iraq.

Lt. Col. William G. Pitts, "Overview: Field Artillery in Operation Iraqi Freedom". Field Artillery, September-October 2003, pp. 2-4.

Oliver Poole, Black Knights: On the Bloody Road to Baghdad. London: HarperCollins, 2003. pb London: HarperCollins, 2005. xxi, 280 pp. Poole, a British journalist reporting for the Daily Telegraph, was embedded with 1/15 Infantry, 3rd Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division, and in particular with B Company, 1/64 Armor (Bradleys and Abrams tanks, “Black Knights”) which was part of that battalion, going into Iraq in 2003.

Major Philip D. Rice, "Decisive Fires, Decisive Victory: 1-9 FA in OIF". Field Artillery, September-October 2003, pp. 29-32.

Paul Rieckhoff, Chasing Ghosts: A Soldier’s Fight for America from Baghdad to Washington. New York: NAL Caliber (Penguin), 2006. vi, 326 pp. Paperback titled Chasing Ghosts: Failures and Facades in Iraq: A Soldier’s Perspective. New York: NAL Caliber (Penguin), 2007. vi, 326 pp. A National Guard 1LT, Rieckhoff went into Baghdad in 2003 as a platoon leader. He was shocked by the poor planning for the postwar. After returning to the US, he became a critic of US policy and a founder of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA).

Linda Robinson, Masters of Chaos: The Secret History of the Special Forces. pb Perseus, 2005. 388 pp. Starts with Just Cause. One chapter on Desert Storm, one on Afghanistan, six on Iraq 2003.

Walter C. Rodgers, Sleeping with Custer and the 7th Cavalry: An Embedded Reporter in Iraq. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2005. xiii, 224 pp. Rodgers, a CNN reporter, was embedded in A Troop, 3/7 Cavalry, a recon unit that went into Iraq in March 2003.

Mike Rossiter, Target Basra: The High-Octane Story of the Royal Marine Commandos in Iraq. Bantam, 2008. 320 pp. Royal Navy Marines of 40 and 42 Commando went into Iraq on 20 March 2003, going first for petroleum facilities in extreme southern Iraq, and then for the city of Basra.

Asne Seierstad, A Hundred and One Days: A Baghdad Journal. London: Virago (Time Warner), 2004. 321 pp. Trans. by Ingrid Christophersen. Norwegian original Hundre og en dag: en reportasjereise. Oslo: J.S. Cappelen, 2003. 335 pp. Seierstad, an experienced war correspondent but not an Arabist, reported from Baghdad January-April 2003 for several Scandinavian newspapers.

John Simpson, The Wars Against Saddam: Taking the Hard Road to Baghdad. London: Macmillan, 2003. x, 415 pp. pb London: Pan, 2004. x, 433 pp. Simpson, the BBC’s World Affairs Editor, who covered Iraq off and on for many years, was almost killed April 6, 2003, in a mistaken US airstrike near Kirkuk that killed 18 people (334-47).

Elise Forbes Tripp, Surviving Iraq: Soldiers’ Stories. Olive Branch Press, 2007. 274 pp.

Mike Tucker and Charles Faddis, Operation Hotel California: The Clandestine War Inside Iraq. Guilford, Connecticut: Lyons Press (Globe Pequot Press), 2008 [the copyright page says 2009]. xxii, 216 pp. Faddis led an eight-man CIA paramilitary team into Iraq in July 2002. The book is very critical of the Bush administration. The lurid and sometimes exaggerated language don't give me a lot of faith in it.

Mike Tucker, Among Warriors in Iraq: True Grit, Special Ops, and Raiding in Mosul and Fallujah. Guilford, Connecticut: Lyons Press (Globe Pequot Press), 2005. xxi, 234 pp. Pages 1-85 are Mosul, September 27 to November 9, 2003. Pages 87-223 are Fallujah, November 13, 2003 to February 6, 2004.

Cherilyn A. Walley and Michael R. Mullins, "Order from Chaos: The 422nd CA Battalion in OIF." Veritas: Journal of Army Special Operations History 2 (2006), pp. 70-75.

Trish Wood, What Was Asked of Us: An Oral History of the Iraq War by the Soldiers Who Fought It. New York: Little, Brown (Hachette Group), 2006. xxii, 309 pp.

Karl Zinsmeister, Boots on the Ground: A Month with the 82nd Airborne in the Battle for Iraq. New York: St. Martin’s, 2003. 213 pp. Zinsmeister works for the American Enterprise Institute. The 82nd didn’t get to Baghdad, but conducted urban warfare, clearing Samawah 80 miles SE of Najaf.

David Zucchino, Thunder Run: The Armored Strike to Capture Baghdad. New York: Grove Press (Grove/Atlantic), 2004. xiii, 345 pp. The Second Brigade (Spartan Brigade) of the Third Infantry Division (Mechanized). Zucchino was a reporter for the Los Angeles Times.

 

The Second U.S. - Iraq War: U.S. Marines

Colonel Rod Andrew Jr., U.S. Marines in Battle: An-Nasiriyah, 23 March - 2 April 2003 [title on cover] / The Battle of An-Nasiriyah [title on page 1]. Washington, DC: History Division, United States Marine Corps, 2009. 46 pp. An interesting and well-written account of what happened in the first place U.S. forces encountered serious resistance in March 2003.

Lt. Carey H. Cash, A Table in the Presence. New York: Random House, 2005. 256 pp. Lt. Cash was a chaplain with the 1/5 Marines going into Baghdad in 2003. The cover states (not quite looking like a subtitle): “The inspiring account of how a U.S. Marine battalion experienced God’s grace amid the chaos of THE WAR IN IRAQ”

Major Thomas W. Crecca, United States Marine Corps Reserve Operations, 11 September 2001 to November 2003. New Orleans, LA: U.S. Marine Forces Reserve, 2005. vii, ?? pp.

GySgt Jason K. Doran, USMC (Ret.), I Am My Brother’s Keeper: Journal of a Gunny in Iraq. Caisson Press, 2005. 220 pp. Doran was with the 1/2 Marines, part of Task Force Tarawa, including at An Nasiriyah.

LtCol Kenneth W. Estes, USMC (ret.), U.S. Marine Corps Operations in Iraq, 2003–2006. Quantico, VA: History Division, United States Marine Corp, 2009. 153 pp.

Nathaniel Fick, One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2005. 372 pp. Fick, a Marine platoon leader, went into Iraq in the First Reconnaissance Battalion (see Evan Wright, below).

Major Walker M. Field, USMC, "Marine Artillery in the Battle of An Nasiriyah". Field Artillery, November-December 2003, pp. 26-30.

Seth W.B. Folsom, The Highway War: A Marine Company Commander in Iraq. Washington, D.C.: Potomac Books, 2006. xix, 425 pp. Folsom commanded D Company, 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion. Went into Baghdad in the 2003 offensive, then on to Tikrit.

Michael S. Groen, and contributors, With the 1st Marine Division in Iraq, 2003: No Greater Friend, No Worse Enemy. Quantico, VA: History Division, Marine Corps University, 2006. xi, 413 pp.

Major Christopher M. Kennedy, et al., eds., U.S. Marines in Iraq, 2003: Anthology and Annotated Bibliography. Washington, D.C.: History Division, U.S. Marine Corps, 2006. xiv, 339 pp.
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John Koopman, McCoy’s Marines: Darkside to Baghdad. St. Paul, MN: Zenith Press (MBI), 2004. 304 pp. Koopman, a former Marine sergeant and a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle, was embedded with the 3/4 Marines, commanded by Lt. Col. Bryan P. McCoy (“Darkside”). They went initially to Basrah, later were the unit that pulled down the Saddam statue in Baghdad.

Gary Livingston, An Nasiriyah: The Fight for the Bridges. Caisson, 2004. 209 pp.

Richard S. Lowry, Marines in the Garden of Eden: The True Story of Seven Bloody Days in Iraq. New York: Berkley, 2006. xxi, 422- pp. March 23- in An Nasiriyah. Based on extensive interviewing.

Andrew Lubin, Charlie Battery: A Marine Artillery Unit in Iraq. Central Point, Oregon: Hellgate Press, 2004. 194 pp. One chapter deals with the battle of An Nasiriyah.

Marco Martinez, Hard Corps: From Gangster to Marine Hero. New York: Crown Forum (Random House), 2007. 256 pp. Martinez was with one of the Marine units that went into Baghdad in 2003. Very gung ho, critical of those who don’t support the war.

Jimmy Massey, with Natasha Saulnier, Cowboys from Hell (forthcoming). Massey, a Marine, was in Iraq March-May 2003. His book, which apparently is pretty negative about the Marines’ behavior toward Iraqi civilians, has not yet managed to appear in English, but the French translation has been out for a while, under the title Kill! Kill! Kill!. Paris: Panama, 2005. 389 pp.

Lt. Col. Michael R. Melillo, USMC, "Cannon Cockers at War: The 11th Marines in Operation Iraqi Freedom". Field Artillery, September-October 2003, pp. 24-28.

Jesse Odom, Through Our Eyes. Bella Rosa Books, 2008. 208 pp. Odom was squad leader of 1st Squad, 2nd Platoon, A Company, 5th Marines, going into Iraq.

Nick Popaditch, Once a Marine: An Iraq War Tank Commander’s Inspirational Memoir of Combat, Courage, and Recovery. Savas Beatie, 2008. 312 pp. Gunnery Sgt. Popaditch went into Iraq in the original invasion in 2003. The main part of the book apparently deals with his recovery from severe wounds suffered in Fallujah on April 6, 2004.

Tim Pritchard, Ambush Alley: The Most Extraordinary Battle of the Iraq War. New York: Presidio (Ballantine), 2005. xvi, 294 pp. The battle for Nasiriyah, March 23, 2003.

Col. Nicholas E. Reynolds, USMCR (Ret.), Basrah, Baghdad, and Beyond: The U.S. Marine Corps in the Second Iraq War. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2005. xi, 276 pp. Reynolds was in charge of USMC history operations in the war.

Col. Nicholas E. Reynolds, USMCR (Ret.), U.S. Marines in Iraq, 2003: Basrah, Baghdad, and Beyond. Washington, D.C.: History Division, United States Marine Corps, 2007. ix, 191 pp.

Malcolm Rios, Under the Gun: Infantryman, Medic, Tattoo Artist: My Year in Iraq. Bloomington, Indiana: AuthorHouse, 2006. 306 pp.

Gy. Sgt. Patrick Tracy, Street Fight in Iraq: The Private Journal of a U.S. Marine Warrior. Leatherneck Publishing, 2006. 396 pp. Based on Tracy’s diary, August 2004 to April 2005.

Mike Tucker, Ronin: A Marine Scout-Sniper Platoon in Iraq. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole, 2008 (forthcoming). 256 pp. Covers 2005-2006, including some operations in Fallujah.

Bing West [Francis J. West] and Maj. Gen. Ray L. Smith USMC (Ret.), The March Up: Taking Baghdad with the 1st Marine Division. Introduction by John Keegan. New York: Bantam, 2003. xi, 303 pp. West and Smith, both of whom had served in the division long before, were permitted to accompany it, as civilian observers, during the campaign.

Matthew D. Wojtecki, Every Other Four: The Journal of Cpl. Matthew D. Wojtecki, Weapons Company 3rd Battalion 25th Marines, Mobile Assault Team Eight. AuthorHouse, 2006. 388 pp. In Al Anbar province.

Evan Wright, Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America and the New Face of American War. New York: Putnam’s (Penguin), 2004. 354 pp. Wright, a reporter for Rolling Stone, was embedded with a platoon of the USMC First Reconnaissance Battalion during the 2003 war (see Nathaniel Fick, above).

Matt Zeigler, Three Block War: U.S. Marines in Iraq. iUniverse, 2004. 132 pp.

 

Post 2003

John Agresto, Mugged by Reality: The Liberation of Iraq and the Failure of Good Intentions. New York: Encounter Books, 2007. xxii, 202 pp. Agresto worked for the CPA September 2003 to June 2004, as senior adviser to Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research.

Fouad Ajami, The Foreigner’s Gift: The Americans, the Arabs, and the Iraqis in Iraq. New York: The Free Press, 2006. xix, 378 pp.

Andrew Alderson, Bankrolling Basra: The Incredible Story of a Part-time Soldier, $1 Billion, and the Collapse of Iraq. London: Robinson (Constable and Robinson), 2007. xiii, 272. Alderson, a former banker in Britain, joined the Territorial Army, was sent to Iraq in 2003, and became head of the Economic Planning and Development Department for the British occupation of southern Iraq.

Ali A. Allawi, The Occupation of Iraq: Winning the War, Losing the Peace. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. xxiv, 518 pp. Allawi became Minister of Defense approximately April 2004, but this excellent book is a history (with 33 pp. of endnotes) rather than a memoir; he refers to himself in the third person.

Liam Anderson and Gareth Stansfield, Crisis in Kirkuk: The Ethnopolitics of Conflict and Compromise. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. 312 pp.

Christopher Ankersen, ed., Civil-Military Cooperation in Post-Conflict Operations: Emerging Theory and Practice. New York: Routledge, 2008. 253 pp. The case studies include Iraq.

Lawrence Anthony, with Graham Spence, Babylon’s Ark: The Incredible Wartime Rescue of the Baghdad Zoo. Thomas Dunne Books, 2007. 256 pp.

Anthony Arnove, Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal. New York: The New Press, 2006. Foreword by Howard Zinn. xxi, 184 pp. 2d ed. New York: Metropolitan Books (Henry Holt and Company), 2007. xxv, 177 pp. A strongly anti-war view.

Captain Albert G. Bossar, "Fires Brigade TAB: Expanded and Unique Missions in OIF". Field Artillery, January-February 2007, pp. 20-21. A Target Acquisition Battery.

Markus E. Bouillon, David M. Malone, and Ben Rowswell, eds., Iraq: Preventing a New Generation of Conflict. Lynne Rienner, 2007. 349 pp.

Brett Bowden, Hilary Charlesworth, and Jeremy Farrall, eds., The Role of International Law in Rebuilding Societies after Conflict: Great Expectations. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. There are scattered comments on Iraq, and one paper specifically devoted to Iraq:

Wayne H. Bowen, Undoing Saddam: From Occupation to Sovereignty in Northern Iraq. Washington, D.C.: Potomac Books, 2006. xxiii, 201 pp. An AUSA (Association of the US Army) book. Bowen served in Nineveh, Dohuk, and Erbil provinces, Feb-Oct 2004, as a US Army Reserve civil affairs officer in the 416th Civil Affairs Battalion.

Joseph Braude, The New Iraq: Rebuilding the Country for Its People, the Middle East, and the World. New York: Basic Books, 2003. 211 pp. A relatively optimistic projection, by a man who apparently had reasonable claims to expertise, about the prospects for postwar Iraq, written shortly before the war began.

L. Paul Bremer III, with Malcolm McConnell, My Year in Iraq: The Struggle to Build a Future of Hope. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006. 417 pp.

Charles H. Briscoe, "Fighting Through the 'Fog of War': The Battle of An Najaf, 28-29 January 2007." Veritas: Journal of Army Special Operations History, 4 (2008), pp. 1-15.

Jean-Charles Brisard, Zarqawi: The New Face of Al-Qaeda. New York: Other Press, 2005. xvi, 283 pp. (French original Zarkaoui, le nouveau visage d'Al Qaida.)

Gilbert Burnham, Riyadh Lafta, Shannon Doocy, and Les Roberts, "Mortality after the 2003 invasion of Iraq: a cross-sectional cluster sample survey." The Lancet, October 11, 2006. Data from 1,849 households containing 12,801 individuals was gathered between May and July 2006. The pre-invasion mortality rate was 5.5 per 1000 people per year; the post-invasion rate was 13.3 per 1000 people per year. The authors estimate that as of July 2006 there had been 654,965 excess Iraqi deaths as a result of the invasion, or about 2.5% of the population. “Of post-invasion deaths, 601,027 were due to violence, the most common cause being gunfire." [See also earlier version (2004).] Commentaries on and reactions to the 2006 study include:

Daniel L. Byman and Kenneth M. Pollack, Things Fall Apart: Containing the Spillover from an Iraqi Civil War. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2007. xiv, 239 pp. Looks at a variety of civil wars in search of lessons relevant to the Iraqi situation.

Lt. Col. Richard M. Cabrey and Captain Douglas M. Thomas, "1-5 FA in OIF II: Maintaining FA Competencies While Deployed". Field Artillery, January-February 2007, pp. 15-19. The 1-5 Field Artillery was at Ramadi, approximately October 2003 to September 2004.

Col. Dominic J. Caraccilo and Lt. Col. Andrea L. Thompson, Achieving Victory in Iraq: Countering an Insurgency. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2008. xxiv, 215 pp. Foreword by Bing West.

Paolo Casaca, The Hidden Invasion of Iraq. Acacias Publishing, 2008. 250 pp. The growth of Iranian influence in Iraq since 2003. Casaca, a member of the European Parliament since 1999, was previously a member of the Azorean Regional Parliament and of the Portuguese Parliament. He is a member of the Socialist Party, with a longstanding interest in human rights issues and the Middle East. But I don't get the impression he has spent much time in Iraq.

Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq’s Green Zone. New York: Knopf, 2006. xi, 320 pp. This is partly life in the Green Zone, but also a history of Bremer administration policies. Chandrasekaran was head of the Washington Post’s Baghdad bureau.

Zaki Chehab, Inside the Resistance: The Iraqi Resistance and the Future of the Middle East. New York: Nation Books, 2005. x, 277 pp. Published in the U.K. as Iraq Ablaze: Inside the Insurgency. London: I.B. Tauris, 2006.

Steven E. Clay, Iroquois Warriors in Iraq. Fort Leavenworth, KS: Combat Studies Institute Press, 2007. ix, 275 pp. Members of the Army Reserve’s 98th Division (Institutional Training), serving in Iraq in 2004 and 2005, advising and training Iraqi forces.

Ken Coates, ed., Fallujah: Shock & Awe. Spokesman, 2005. Very critical of the U.S.

Patrick Cockburn, Muqtada: Muqtada al-Sadr, the Shia Revival, and the Struggle for Iraq. New York: Scribner, 2008. 226 pp. Published in the U.K. as Muqtada al-Sadr and the Fall of Iraq. Faber and Faber, 2008.

Robert Cole, as told to Jan Hogan, Under the Gun in Iraq: My Year Training the Iraqi Police. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2007. 309 pp. Some names have been changed.

Congressional Record. The Congressional Record, which includes not only the complete record of what is said on the floor of the U.S. House and Senate but also a lot of documents entered into the record, is available online courtesy of the GPO. I have not looked much at this, but as an example of what you might find:

Congressional Research Service. Some research publications have been placed online by the Federation of American Scientists and other organizations.

Steven L. Costel, ed., Surging Out of Iraq? Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers, 2008 (forthcoming).

Anthony H. Cordesman, with Patrick Baetjer, Iraqi Security Forces: A Strategy for Success. Westport: Praeger, 2006. xxvi, 410 pp.

Anthony H. Cordesman, with Emma R. Davies, Iraq’s Insurgency and the Road to Civil Conflict. 2 vols. Westport, CT: Praeger Security International, 2008. xxix, 841 pp. (pp. i-xxix are in each volume.)

Anthony H. Cordesman, The Tenuous Case for Strategic Patience in Iraq: A Trip Report." Center for Strategic and International Studies, August 6, 2007.

Conrad C. Crane and W. Andrew Terrill, Reconstructing Iraq: Insights, Challenges, and Missions for Military Forces in a Post-Conflict Scenario. Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, February 2003. vi, 78 pp. Only Crane’s and Terrill’s names are on the title page, but this is an institutional product, with input from agencies other than the Army, for which drafts were being discussed by late 2002.

Hadani Ditmars, Dancing in the No-Fly Zone: A Woman’s Journey Through Iraq. Northhampton, MA: Olive Branch Press (Interlink), 2006. 263 pp. Ditmars, a Canadian journalist, first reported from Iraq in 1997, but this book covers September 2003 onward.

Robert Earle, Nights in the Pink Motel: An American Strategist’s Pursuit of Peace in Iraq. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2008. viii, 259 pp. Earle arrived in Iraq in 2004 as a senior assistant to Ambassador Negroponte.

Ivan Eland, Partitioning for Peace: An Exit Strategy for Iraq. Independent Institute, 2009. 136 pp.

David Enders, Baghdad Bulletin: Dispatches on the American Occupation. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005. xiii, 179 pp.
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Mark Etherington, Revolt on the Tigris : The Al-Sadr Uprising and the Governing of Iraq. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 2005. xiii, 252 pp. Etherington, formerly a British paratrooper, became the chief CPA representative for Wasit province (capital: al-Kut) in October 2003.

James Fallows, “Why Iraq Has No Army.” The Atlantic Monthly, December 2005, pp. 60-77.

Farnaz Fassihi, Waiting for an Ordinary Day: The Unraveling of Life in Iraq. New York: PublicAffairs, 2008. xii, 291 pp. Ms. Fassihi ran the Baghdad Bureau of the Wall Street Journal 2003-2006.

Noah Feldman, What We Owe Iraq: War and the Ethics of Nation Building. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004. pb with a new afterword: Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. 160 pp. Feldman, a law professor from New York University who also had some serious qualifications as an Arabist, was Senior Constitutional Adivser to the CPA in 2003. He argues for a humbler approach to nation building.

Charles Ferguson, No End in Sight: Iraq’s Descent Into Chaos. New York: PublicAffairs, 2008. xxiv, 640 pp. Mostly this is compilation of transcripts of interviews Ferguson conducted while making a documentary film of the same title. He talked with a lot of the relevant people.

Financial Reconstruction in Iraq. Hearings, Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, September 16, November 4, 2003, and February 11, 2004.
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Daniel Fink and Steven Leibowitz, The Muslim Scholars Association: A Key Actor in Iraq. Washington, D.C.: The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, December 2006. 11 pp. Can be downloaded from the Institute's web page.

Victoria Fontan, Voices from Post-Saddam Iraq: Living with Terrorism, Insurgency, and New Forms of Tyranny. Praeger, 2009.

Aaran Glantz, ed. / Iraq Veterans Against the War, Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan: Eyewitness Accounts of the Occupations. Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2008. x, 237 pp.

Kendall D. Gott, Breaking the Mold: Tanks in the Cities. Fort Leavenworth, Kansas: Combat Studies Institute Press, 2006. xii, 132 pp. Fallujah, November 2004, is one of the cases considered.

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

Heyrick Bond Gunning, Baghdad Business School: The Challenges of a War Zone Start Up. Eye Books Direct, 256 pp. The author is British, and I believe quite young.

Mohammed M. Hafez, Suicide Bombers in Iraq: The Strategy and Ideology of Martyrdom. United States Institute of Peace, 2007. 285 pp.

Haider Ala Hamoudi, Howling in Mesopotamia: An Iraqi-American Memoir. New York: Beaufort Books, 2008. xiii, 273 pp. Hamoudi, an Iraqi-American attorney and a relative of Chalabi, went to Iraq in July 2003 expecting to work as an attorney. He gave up and left in October, then returned in December 2003 to work on an AID-funded project to rebuild Iraqi law schools.

James E. Harley, The Trouble in Iraq: A Diary of a National Guardsman. Denver, Colorado: Outskirts Press, 2005. 189 pp. Anti-war in tone.

Ahmed S. Hashim, Insurgency and Counter-Insurgency in Iraq. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006. xxviii, 482 pp. Dust jacket neglects to mention that Hashim served in Iraq 2003-2004. He is now (2007) an adviser to Gen. Petraeus.

Mohammed Hassan and David Pestieau, l’Irak face a l’occupation. Berchem, Belgium: EPO, 2004. 185 pp. Translated from the Dutch by Frank Degrez.

Chris Hedges and Laila Al-Arian, Collateral Damage: America’s War against Iraqi Civilians. New York: Nation Books, 2008. xxxvii, 122 pp.

Nathaniel R. Helms, My Men Are My Heroes: The Brad Kasal Story. Meredith Books, 2007. 288 pp. USMC First Sergeant Brad Kasal won the Navy Cross in Fallujah.

Eric Herring and Glen Rangwala, Iraq in Fragments: The Occupation and Its Legacy. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006. xii, 354 pp.

House Committee on Armed Services

House Committee on the Budget

House Commitee on Government Reform/House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

House Commitee on International Relations / House Committee on Foreign Affairs

House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence

Initial Benchmark Assessment Report. Report submitted to the Congress by the White House, July 12, 2007, on progress in Iraq. 25 pp.
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Gerald L. Hunt, The Kill Zone: Day to Day Convoys in Iraq. AuthorHouse, 2007. 88 pp.

International Crisis Group, Middle East Briefings/Reports

Iraq Legal Development Project, American Bar Association.

Dahr Jamail, Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq. Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2007. xvi, 313 pp. I believe this is pretty negative about U.S. policy. Jamail arrived in Iraq in November 2003.

Issam Jameel, Iraq Through a Bullet Hole: A Civilian Returns Home. Ann Arbor, MI: Modern History Press (Loving Healing Press), 2009. iv, 196 pp. Issam Jameel, a playwright, returned to Iraq in 2005 after a prolonged exile in Australia.

Joint Economic Committee

Frederick W. Kagan, Choosing Victory: A Plan for Success in Iraq. Phase I Report. A Report of the Iraq Planning Group at the American Enterprise Institute. January 2007.

David Kilcullen, "Anatomy of a Tribal Revolt," Small Wars & Insurgencies, (18:2?) (June?) 2007.

R. Alan King, Lieutenant Colonel, USAR, Twice Armed: An American Soldier’s Battle for Hearts and Minds in Iraq. St. Paul, Minnesota: Zenith Press (MBI), 2006. 303 pp. King commanded the 442nd Civil Affairs Battalion in the 3rd ID in Iraq from the March invasion to August 2003, then worked for the CPA until June 2004, first as tribal outreach coordinator, then in the Office of Provincial Outreach.

Nemir Kirdar, Saving Iraq: Rebuilding a Broken Nation. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2009. 320 pp. I have not seen the book, but I get an impression it is more about what needs to be done than about how to do it.

Ian Klaus, Elvis is Titanic: Classroom Tales from the Other Iraq. New York: Knopf, 2007. 240 pp. Klaus taught US History and English at Salahaddin University in Arbil (Irbil), Iraqi Kurdistan, in 2005.

Michael Knights and Ed Williams, The Calm Before the Storm: The British Experience in Southern Iraq. Washington, D.C.: The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, February 2007. vii, 37 pp. Can be downloaded from the Institute's web page.

Eric J. Labs, et. al., Paying for Iraq's Reconstruction. Congressional Budget Office and GPO, January 2004.

David Little and Donald K. Swearer, eds., Religion and Nationalism in Iraq: A Comparative Perspective. Cambridge, MA: Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard Divinity School (distributed by Harvard University Press), 2007. viii, 213 pp. Compares Iraq with Sri Lanka, Sudan, and Bosnia-Herzegovina. The Iraq chapters are Juan R. I. Cole, “The Rise of Religious and Ethnic Mass Politics in Iraq” (pp. 43-62); Phebe Marr, “Kurds and Arabs, Sunnis and Shiites: Can an Iraqi Identity be Salvaged?” (pp. 63-72). Some of the publisher's publicity also lists Yitzakh Nakash, "Iraq after the January 2005 Elections," but apparently that was eliminated from the volume in the late stages of the editing.

Ray LeMoine and Jeff Neumann, with Donovan Webster, Babylon by Bus: Or, the true story of two friends who gave up their valuable franchise selling YANKEES SUCK T-shirts at Fenway to find meaning and adventure in Iraq, where they became employed by the occupation in jobs for which they lacked qualification and witnessed much that amazed and disturbed them. New York: Penguin, 2006. pb New York: Penguin, 2007. 316 pp. LeMoine and Neumann arrived in Iraq in January 2004.

Rory McCarthy, Nobody Told Us We Are Defeated: Stories from the New Iraq. London: Chatto & Windus, 2006. 327 pp. McCarthy lived in Baghdad 2003-2005 as a reporter for the Guardian.

Lt. Col. Richard A. McConnell, Major Christopher L. Matson, and Captain Brent A. Clemmer, "The MiTT and Its 'Human Terrain': Transitioning the Iraqi Army into the Lead". Field Artillery, January-February 2007, pp. 11-14. The Military Transition Team.

Capt. Robert P. McGovern, All American: Why I Believe in Football, God, and the War in Iraq. New York: Morrow, 2007. 336 pp. After four years as a pro football player, he became an attorney. As an Army reservist, he went to Baghdad where he prosecuted terrorist suspects. I have not seen the book, but the title does not make me optimistic.

Tara McKelvey, Monstering: Inside America’s Policy of Secret Interrogations and Torture in the Terror War. New York: Basic Books, 2008. 320 pp.

Carter Malkasian, "Signaling Resolve, Democratization, and the First Battle of Fallujah." Journal of Strategic Studies 29:3 (June 2006), pp. 423-452.

Ahmed Mansour, Inside Fallujah: The Unembedded Story. Northampton, MA: Olive Branch Press (Interlink Publishing Group), 2009. xiii, 359 pp. Mansour, a reporter for al Jazeera, covered the first battle of Fallujah from inside the city. He also discusses the second battle, but did not witness it. Very critical of the Americans.

John David Manza, "A critical analysis of American post-conflict reconstruction efforts in southern Iraq." Ph.D. dissertation, Political Science, Wayne State University, 2008. 217 pp. AAT 3310891. Research was conducted in Iraq between August 2006 and July 2007.

George Michael, "The Legend and Legacy of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi." Defense Studies 7 (September 2007), pp. 338-357.

Military Review. "The Professional Journal of the U.S. Army." Published by the Combined Arms Center, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Recent issues contain a lot about Iraq, both detailed tactical accounts and broader analyses. (Some articles about general issues of insurgency and counterinsurgency, rather than the specific experience of Iraq since 2003, are listed above in the section "Insurgency and Counterinsurgency Doctrine").

Thomas Mowle, ed., Hope is Not a Plan: The War in Iraq from Inside the Green Zone. Westport: Praeger, 2007. xx, 172 pp. The focus is on efforts in late 2004 and early 2005 to solve the Iraqi problem. Mowle himself served in the Strategy, Plans, and Assessment Division, Headquarters, Multinational Force – Iraq, August to December 2004.

Peter J. Munson, Iraq in Transition: The Legacy of Dictatorship and the Prospects for Democracy. Foreword by Steven Metz. Washington, D.C.: Potomac Books, 2009. xiii, 321 pp. Munson is an Arabic speaking Middle East specialist and a Marine officer.

Patrick J. Murphy, with Adam Frankel, Taking the Hill: From Philly to Baghdad to the United States Congress. New York: Henry Holt, 2008. x, 275 pp. Murphy, who had been teaching law at West Point, was sent to Iraq in June 2004 to be the JAG for the 2nd Brigade Combat Team of the 82nd Airborne. He stayed until January 2004. Feeling that what he had seen represented terrible failures of planning, he ran for Congress as a Democrat, and won.

Loretta Napoleoni, Insurgent Iraq: Al Zarqawi and the New Generation. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2005. 281 pp.

Capt. Eric Navarro, USMCR, God Willing: My Wild Ride with the New Iraqi Army. Washington, D.C.: Potomac Books, 2008. ix, 271 pp. Navarro was assigned to work with Iraqi soldiers at the end of 2004, in al Anbar province.

Michael A. Newton and Michael Scharf, Enemy of the State: The Trial and Execution of Saddam Hussein. New York: St. Martin's, 2008. 305 pp.

Steven K. O’Hern, The Intelligence Wars: Lessons from Baghdad. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2008. 292 pp. Foreword by Bart Bechtel. O'Hern arrived in Iraq in April 2005 to head the Strategic Counterintelligence Directorate of the Multi-National Force. He complains that U.S. intelligence tended to ignore Iranian activities in Iraq because of an excessive focus on the Sunni insurgency, and that it underemphasized human intelligence. Names have been changed.

Brendan O'Leary, How to Get Out of Iraq With Integrity. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. 263 pp.

Colonel Kim Olson, USAF (Ret.), Iraq and Back: Inside the War to Win the Peace. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2006. xii, 211 pp. Olson was Jay Garner’s executive officer in 2003.

Robert Olson, The Goat and the Butcher: Nationalism and State Formation in Kurdistan-Iraq Since the Iraqi War. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 2005. xiii, 278 pp.

Joan T. Phillips, Conflict Termination in the Iraqi War 2003. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Air University Library, February 2005. This is a bibliography.

Oliver Poole, Red Zone: Five Bloody Years in Baghdad. London: Reportage Press, 2008. xiii, 336 pp. Poole, a reporter for the London Daily Telegraph who had covered the 2003 invasion, returned and spent 2005-6 in Iraq. He says it was pretty bad.

RAND Corporation (Previously, Rand Corporation). This "think tank" does a lot of research and analysis work on contract for the Defense Department. For RAND Corporation publications dealing with U.S. operations in Iraq since 2003, follow links to Theories of Limited War and Counterinsurgency and The Second U.S. - Iraq War.

Michael Rear, Intervention, Ethnic Conflict and State-building in Iraq: A Paradigm for the Post-colonial State. Routledge, 2008. 298 pp.

Rebuilding Iraq: Integrated Strategic Plan Needed to Help Restore Iraq’s Oil and Electricity Sectors. US Government Accountability Office (GAO), May 2007. iii, 58 pp. Bar graph showing enemy attacks by month, May 2003 to April 2007, on p.34.

Thomas E. Ricks, The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008. New York: Penguin, 2009. 394 pp.

Linda Robinson, Tell Me How This Ends: General David Petraeus and the Search for a Way Out of Iraq. New York: PublicAffairs, 2008. xix, 411 pp.

Paul Rogers, Iraq and the War on Terror: Twelve Months of Insurgency, 2004/2005. I.B. Tauris, 2006. 144 pp. Rogers is a professor of Peace Studies at Bradford University.

Paul Rogers, A War Too Far: Iraq, Iran and the New American Century. Pluto Press, 2006. 256 pp.

Major Travis E. Rooms, Beginning with the End in Mind: Post-Conflict Operations and Campaign Planning. Ft. Leavenworth: School of Advanced Military Studies, 2005. v, 60 pp.

Nir Rosen, In the Belly of the Green Bird: The Triumph of the Martyrs in Iraq. New York: The Free Press, 2006. xvi, 264 pp. Paperback titled The Triumph of the Martyrs: A Reporter's Journey into Occupied Iraq. Potomac Books, 2008. Rosen speaks Iraqi-accented Arabic. Covers April 2003 to January 2005.

Senate Committee on Appropriations

Senate Committee on Armed Services (GPO web page)

Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (GPO web page)

Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

Senate Committee on the Judiciary

Giuliana Sgrena, Friendly Fire: The remarkable story of a journalist kidnapped in Iraq, rescued by an Italian secret service agent, and shot by U.S. forces. Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2006. 215 pp. Foreword by Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! Translated by Lesley Freeman Riva. Italian original Fuoco amico (Feltrinelli, 2005). A reporter for Il Manifesto, Sgrena was held by insurgents from Feb 4 to March 4, 2005. She was wounded and Major General Nicola Calipari was killed by an American checkpoint on the day of her release.

Major Scott A. Sparks, The Impact of Misunderstanding the Enemy’s Will to Fight in OIF. Ft. Leavenworth: School of Advanced Military Studies, 2005. iv, 42 pp.

Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR; Stuart W. Bowen, Jr.), web site

Robert Springborg, et. al., Oil and Democracy in Iraq. London: Saqi Books / London Middle East Institute, School of Oriental and African Studies, 2007. 122 pp. An analysis of the policy issues involved in the reconstruction of, and control of, the Iraqi petroleum industry.

James Stephenson, Losing the Golden Hour: An Insider’s View of Iraq’s Reconstruction. Washington, D.C: Potomac Books, 2007. xx, 175 pp. Foreword by Richard L. Armitage. Stephenson went to Iraq in February 2004 to head the operations of the Agency for International Development (AID) there.

Rory Stewart, The Prince of the Marshes, and Other Occupational Hazards of a Year in Iraq. New York: Harcourt, 2006. xviii, 396 pp. Stewart was sent to Iraq in September 2003 by the British Foreign Office, as acting governorate coordinator for Maysan, the governorate north of Al Basrah, bordering on Iran.

Hilary Synnott, Bad Days in Basra: My Turbulent Time as Britain’s Man in Southern Iraq. London: I.B. Tauris, 2008. xvi, 287 pp. Synnott, a senior British diplomat, was picked in July 2003 to be the coordinator of the occupation in the four provinces at the southeast corner of Iraq.

Matt Taibbi, The great derangement: A terrifying true story of war, politics, and religion at the twilight of the American empire. New York: Spiegel and Grau, 2008. 269 pp. Taibbi is a reporter for Rolling Stone. One short chapter (pp. 88-97) deals with his experiences embedded with the 615th Military Police ("Bloodhounds") in Baghdad. I don't see a date for this in the book, but I believe it was mid-2006 (see Taibbi's article "Fort Apache, Iraq" in Rolling Stone, issue 1004/1005, July 13-27, 2006).

W. Andrew Terrill, Nationalism, Sectarianism, and the Future of the U.S. Presence in Post-Saddam Iraq. Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, July 2003. vi, 44 pp.

W. Andrew Terrill and Conrad C. Crane, Precedents, Variables, and Options in Planning a U.S. Military Disengagement from Iraq. Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, 2005. vii, 60 pp. Warns against unfounded optimism.

Jürgen Todenhöfer, Why Do You Kill? The Untold Story of the Iraqi Resistance. New York: The Disinformation Company, 2009. 204 pp. I believe the German original was Warum tötest du, Zaid? Bertelsmann, 2008.

U.S. Department of Defense, Measuring Stability and Security in Iraq. A series of quarterly reports sent to the Congress. No particular author or office within the Department of Defense shows on the reports I have seen, but I believe the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (see above) played an important role in producing them.

U.S. Institute of Peace [this entity was created by the U.S. government, but to a significant extent operates autonomously]

Geert van Kesteren, Baghdad Calling. Episode Publishers, 2008. Geert van Kesteren, a photojournalist, both photographs and writes about Iraqis in Baghdad, and in exile in neighboring countries, in 2006 and 2007.

Steven Vincent, In the Red Zone: A Journey Into the Soul of Iraq. Spence, 2004. viii, 247 pp. Based on two trips to Iraq as a free-lance journalist, Sept-Oct 2003 and Jan-Mar 2004. Apparently believed in the effort to create democracy there. He was working on a book about Basra when killed there.

Reidar Visser and Gareth Stansfield, eds., An Iraq of its Regions: Cornerstones of a Federal Democracy? New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. 288 pp.

Major Christopher W. Wendland, "BCT FSCOORD in OIF: Targeting by LOOs". Field Artillery, March-Apri 2007, pp. 42-45.

Bing West, The Strongest Tribe: War, Politics, and the Endgame in Iraq. New York: Random House, 2008. xx, 417 pp.

Andrew White, Iraq: Searching for Hope. London: Continuum, 2005. xi, 164 pp. White, an Anglican minister, first visited Iraq in 1999. He went there about the end of May 2003 to work on reforming Iraq’s Ministry of Religious Affairs.

Rusty B. Wilson, Iraq: The Story You'll Never Get from the Media: Life on a Forward Operating Base in the War Zone. Orange, California: Songbird, 2006. 213 pp.

Bob Woodward, State of Denial: Bush at War, Part III. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006. xiv, 560 pp.

Michael Yon, Moment of Truth in Iraq: How a New 'Greatest Generation' of American Soldiers is Turning Defeat and Disaster into Victory and Hope. Richard Vigilante Books, 2008. 227 pp. Yon is a blogger, who has spent a lot of time embedded in US units in Iraq. His web site is at http://www.michaelyon-online.com/.

Rex J. Zedalis, The Legal Dimensions of Oil and Gas in Iraq: Current Reality and Future Prospects. Cambridge University Press, 2009. 368 pp.

Karl Zinsmeister, Dawn Over Baghdad: How the U.S. Military is Using Bullets and Ballots to Remake Iraq. San Francisco: Encounter Books, 2004. xi, 237 pp.

See also Theories of Limited War and Counterinsurgency.

 

Post-2003: Military

Milo S. Afong [et al.], Hogs in the Shadows: Combat Stories from Marine Snipers in Iraq. New York: Berkley Caliber (Penguin), 2007. viii, 259 pp. Sergeant Afong assembled this collection, combining one story of his own actions with eleven by other HOGs (“hunters of gunmen”).

Matthew Alexander (pseud.), with John R. Bruning, How To Break a Terrorist: The U.S. Interrogators Who Used Brains, Not Brutality, To Take Down the Deadliest Man in Iraq. New York: The Free Press, 2008. xiii, 288 pp. Alexander was sent into Iraq as an interrogator in 2006.

Armor. "The Magazine of Mobile Warfare", "The Professional Bulletin of the Armor Branch", or "The Professional Journal of Mounted Warfare". Fort Knox, Kentucky: U.S. Army Armor School, later U.S. Army Armor Center. This started as a cavalry journal in 1888, and changed names several times before becoming Armor in 1950. Issues since 1995 were for several years available on-line to the general public at the Armor web site, but this access is now blocked so firmly that articles are retroactively blocked on the Wayback Machine. The journal is currently available online to military personnel through the Army Knowledge Online system. Some recent issues are available to many academics through their university libraries' web systems. Some issues are available through other channels.
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John R. Ballard, Fighting for Fallujah: A New Dawn for Iraq. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2006. xiii, 152 pp. Ballard commanded the USMC 4th Civil Affairs Group. He was in Iraq August 2004 to March 2005.

Lt. Col. Michael A. Baumann (USA, Ret.), Adjust Fire: Transforming to Win in Iraq. Roseville, MN: Birch Grove Publishing, 2008. 483 pp. Baumann commanded the 1-21 Artillery for a one-year tour in Iraq beginning March 2004. The 1-21, under the 5th Brigade Combat Team, First Cavalry Division, was assigned to the Al Rashid district of southern Baghdad.

SSG David Bellavia, with John R. Bruning, House to House: An Epic Memoir of War. New York: Free Press, 2007. xi, 321 pp. Staff Sergeant Bellavia went into Fallujah in November 2004 leading a squad of 3rd Platoon, A company, Task Force 2/2. The book is apparently very gung ho, but also said to be pretty good. A few events “have been reordered or combined for narrative clarity.”

Lieutanant Colonel David A. Benhoff, Among the People: U.S. Marines In Iraq. Quantico, Virginia: Marine Corps University Press, 2008. 109 pp. A photo book, devoted mostly to Marine Corps Civil Affairs operations in al Anbar province; some is on the training teams that worked with Iraqi security forces. Lt. Col. Benhoff deployed to Iraq as a field historian in 2005.

Todd S. Brown, Battleground Iraq: Journal of a Company Commander. Washington, D.C.: Center of Military History/GPO. xi, 292 pp. Captain Brown was in Iraq April 2003 to March 2004. He went in as a staff officer of the 3d Brigade, 4th Infantry Division. In July 2003 he was given command of B Company, 1-8 Infantry.
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Matthew Bogdanos, with William Patrick, Thieves of Baghdad: One Marine’s Passion for Ancient Civilizations and the Journey to Recover the World’s Greatest Stolen Treasures. Bloomsbury, 2005. 302 pp. pb New York: Bloomsbury, 2006. 335 pp. Marine Reserve Col. Bogdanos hunted Al Qaeda in Afghanistan, then arms smugglers in Iraq, then the treasures stolen from the Baghdad Museum.

Majors Jarett D. Broemmel, Shannon E. Nielsen, and Terry L. Clark, "An Analysis of Counterinsurgency in Iraq: Mosul, Ramadi, and Samarra from 2003-2005." Thesis, Master of Science in Defense Analysis, Naval Postgraduate School, 2006. xvi, 127 pp.

John R. Bruning, The Devil’s Sandbox: With the 2nd Battalion, 162nd Infantry at War in Iraq. St. Paul, MN: Zenith Press (MBI), 2006. xii, 340 pp. A National Guard unit from Oregon that arrived in Iraq in April 2004 and served in Najaf, Fallujah, Sadr City, etc. Bruning did a lot of interviewing but was not there.

Benjamin Buchholz, Private Soldiers: A Year in Iraq with a Wisconsin National Guard Unit. State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 2007. 200 pp. Oversize, illustrated. The 2/127 Infantry began an Iraq tour in June 2005, doing road security and convoy escort.

Robert J. Bunker and John P. Sullivan, Suicide Bombings in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Land Warfare Papers, No. 46W. Arlington, VA: Institute of Land Warfare, Association of the United States Army, September 2004. v, 22 pp.

Michael L. Burgoyne and Albert J. Marckwardt, The Defense of Jisr al-Doreaa, with E.D. Swinton's The Defense of Duffer's Drift. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. 178 pp. This is fiction, but supposedly a very good representation of the nature of combat in Iraq.

Colby Buzzell, My War: Killing Time in Iraq. New York: Putnam, 2005. 358 pp. Buzzell was sent to Mosul late in 2003, with the 1/23 Infantry in the Stryker Brigade (3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division). Book is based on his blog.

Caleb S. Cage and Gregory M. Tomlin, The Gods of Diyala: Transfer of Command in Iraq. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2008. x, 307 pp. Cage and Tomlin arrived in Iraq in March 2004 with Task Force 1-6 Field Artillery.

Donovan Campbell, Joker One: A Marine Platoon's Story of Courage, Leadership, and Brotherhood. New York: Random House, 2009. xi, 313 pp. Campbell commanded a platoon of the 2/4 Marines in Ramadi in 2004. He had been an intelligence officer on the staff of the 1st Marine Division during a previous tour in Iraq, in 2003. The book is supposed to be good.

James T. Cobb, “TF 2-2 in FSE AAR: Indirect Fires in the Battle of Fallujah” Field Artillery, March-April 2005, pp. 22-28.

James T. Cobb, “Indirect Fire Support in the Battle for Fallujah – An After Action Review.” Journal of the Royal Artillery 132 (Autumn 2005), pp. 21-26.

Seth A. Conner, Boredom by Day, Death by Night: An Iraq War Journal. Tripping Light Press, 2007. 136 pp. Foreword by Bing West. Sergeant Conner, USMC, was apparently in both of the Battles of Fallujah in 2004.

Dick Couch, The Sheriff of Ramadi: Navy SEALs and the Winning of al-Anbar. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2008. xxix, 251 pp.

Graham Dale, with Neil Fetherstonhaugh, The Green Marine: An Irishman’s War in Iraq. London: Hodder & Staughton, 2008. 320 pp. Dale, a U.S. Marine, served a tour in western Iraq.

David J. Danelo, Blood Stripes: The Grunt’s View of the War in Iraq. Stackpole, 2006. 352 pp. Marines in 2004.

Major Michael L. Davidson, Culture and Effects-based Operations in an Insurgency. Ft. Leavenworth: School of Advanced Military Studies, 2005. iv, 55 pp.

Aidan Delgado, The Sutras of Abu Ghraib: Notes from a Conscientious Objector in Iraq. Boston: Beacon Press, 2007. xvii, 228 pp. Delgado, an Army reservist who spoke Arabic, arrive in Iraq April 4, 2003, with the 320th Military Police Company. He was offended by US behavior, and applied for CO status.

Mark R. DePue, Patrolling Baghdad: A Military Police Company and the War in Iraq. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007. 320 pp. 233rd MP Company, from Springfield, Illinois, in Iraq April 2003 to April 2004. A dust jacket blurb refers to this as a “unit memoir,” but DePue, a retired officer, was not there.

Morten G. Ender, American Soldiers in Iraq: McSoldiers or Innovative Professionals? Cass Military Studies (Routledge), 2009. 224 pp. The author is a professor of Sociology at West Point.

David Finkel, The Good Soldiers. New York: Sarah Crichton Books (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), 2009. 287 pp. The 2-16 Infantry, in Baghdad April 2007 to April 2008 as part of the “surge.” The book has been highly praised.

Sean Michael Flynn, The Fighting 69th: One Remarkable National Guard Unit's Journey from Ground Zero to Baghdad. New York: Viking, 2007. xx, 300 pp. pb The Fighting 69th: From Ground Zero to Baghdad. New York: Penguin, 2008. xvi, 306 pp. The 69th Infantry Regiment, New York National Guard, was deployed to Iraq late in 2004, initially to Taji, not far north of Baghdad. In February 2005, the unit was brought to Baghdad, and assigned to patrol the Airport Highway. Flynn was a company commander. The book is not just about the Iraq deployment; it covers the background of the unit, going back for years.

Vincent L. Foulk, The Battle for Fallujah: Occupation, Resistance and Stalemate in the War in Iraq. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2007. vii, 232 pp. Foulk, a colonel in the Army reserves, was initially sent to Iraq in 2003 in a Civil Affairs unit. Later he was transferred to the CPA.

Vivian H. Gembara, with Deborah A. Gembara, Drowning in the Desert: A JAG’s search for Justice in Iraq. Minneapolis: Zenith Press (MBI), 2008. x, 310 pp. Captain Vivian Gembara was an Army JAG with 3rd Brigade, 4th Infantry Division, in Iraq 2003-4.

Wesley Gray, Embedded: A Marine Corps Adviser Inside the Iraqi Army. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2009 (forthcoming). 272 pp.

William H. Grube, "The evolution of combined USMC/Iraqi army operations: a company commander's perspective, Fallujah, Iraq, September 2005 to April 2006," in Donald Stoker, ed., Military Advising and Assistance: From Mercenaries to Privatization, 1815-2007 (Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2008), pp. 210-223.

James E. Harley, The Trouble in Iraq: A Diary of a National Guardsman. Outskirts Press, 2005. 204 pp.

Jon T. Hoffman, ed., Tip of the Spear: U.S. Army Small-Unit Action in Iraq, 2004-2007. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Army Center of Military History, 2009. ix, 201 pp.

Kimberly Kagan, The Surge: A Military History. Encounter Books, 2008. 250 pp.

Raffi Khatchadourian, “The Kill Company: Did a colonel’s fiery rhetoric set the conditions for a massacre?” The New Yorker, July 6 & 13, 2009, pp. 41-59. Controversy over killings of Iraqis by soldiers of the 3d Brigade, 101st Airborne Division, in the vicinity of Al Muthanna, Salah ad Din province, in May 2006 during Operation Iron Triangle. Abstract. (See also Mestrovic, below).

Phil Kiver, 182 Days in Iraq. Tarentum, PA: Word Association, 2005. 231 pp. 2nd ed.: 182 Days in Iraq, Plus a Year of Reaction at Home. Tarentum, PA: Word Association, 2006. 266 pp. Kiver was an Army journalist, in Iraq July 2004 to January 2005. For the 2006 edition, he added retrospective comments (written a year after his return to the United States) to his original journal entries.

Francis Xavier Kozlowski, The Battle of An-Najaf [cover title: U.S. Marines in Battle: An-Najaf, August 2004]. Washington, D.C.: United States Marine Corps History Division, 2009. 47 pp.
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Tony Lagouranis and Allen Mikaelian, Fear Up Harsh: An Army Interrogator’s Dark Journey Through Iraq. NAL, 2007. 272 pp.

James E. Lewandowski, Road Hunter in the Land Between the Two Rivers: Disillusioned Hearts and Minds. BookSurge, 2007. 306 pp. Lewandowski was in Iraq 2004-2005 as a gun truck commander in a National Guard unit.

Gary Livingston, Fallujah, With Honor: First Battalion, Eighth Marine’s Role in Operation Phantom Fury. North Topsail Beach, NC: Caisson, 2006. 260 pp. Expanded 2d edition: North Topsail Beach, NC: Caisson, (2006?).

John McCool and Matt M. Matthews, Eyewitness to War: The US Army in Operation AL FAJR: An Oral History. Fort Leavenworth, Kansas: U.S. Army Combat Studies Institute, 2006. Volume I. viii, 319 pp. (Colonels to captains, including one USMC major.)   Volume II. viii, 322 pp. (Captains, senior noncoms, and CNN correspondent Jane Arraf.) The Second Battle of Fallujah, November 2004.
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Eric Maddox, with Davin Seay, Mission: Black List #1: The Inside Story of the Search for Saddam Hussein--As Told by the Soldier Who Mastermind His Capture. New York: HarperCollins, 2008. 266 pp.

Peter R. Mansoor, Baghdad at Sunrise: A Brigade Commander’s War in Iraq. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. xxvii, 376 pp. Mansoor commanded the 1st Brigade, 1st Armored Division, in Baghdad roughly mid 2003 to mid 2004.

Ahmed Mansour, Inside Fallujah: The Unembedded Story. (Olive Branch Press? Interlink Publishing?), 2009. 359 pp. By a reporter for Al Jazeera.

Matt M. Matthews, Operation AL FAJR: A Study in Army and Marine Corps Joint Operations. Global War on Terrorism Occasional Paper 20. Fort Leavenworth, Kansas: Combat Studies Institute Press, 2006. vii, 91 pp. The Second Battle of Fallujah, November 2004.

Nicholas P. Maurstad & Darwin Holmstrom, Bristol’s Bastards: In Iraq with the 2nd Battalion, 136th Infantry of Minnesota’s National Guard. Minneapolis: Zenith Press (MBI), 2008. x, 308 pp. The unit arrived in Iraq around the end of March 2006, and served in Anbar province.

Shannon Meehan, with Roger Thompson, Beyond Duty: Life on the Front Line in Iraq. Cambridge, England, and Malden, Massachusetts: Polity Press, 2009. vii, 270 pp. Lt. Meehan went to Iraq in October 2006 with a tank company (D Company, 1-12 Cavalry), and was sent to Diyala province. In Baqubah, mid 2007, he called in a missile strike that he expected to kill only enemy combatants, but that turned out to kill civilians. Some names of persons and places have been changed.

Stjepan G. Mestrovic, Rules of Engagement: A Social History of an American War Crime: Operation Iron Triangle, Iraq. Algora, 2008. 196 pp.

Stjepan G. Mestrovic, The “Good Soldier” on Trial: A Sociological Study of Misconduct by the US Military Pertaining to Operation Iron Triangle, Iraq. New York: Algora, 2009. xi, 282 pp. Appears to be a sequel to, not a revised version of, the previous item. Mestrovic argues that the U.S. military was guilty of gross injustice against soldiers of the 3d Brigade, 101st Airborne Division, who were charged with war crimes in the deaths of some Iraqis in the vicinity of Al Muthanna, Salah ad Din province, on May 9, 1966. I have glanced at the Introduction and was not impressed. (See also Khatchadourian, above.)

Thomas R. Mockaitis, Iraq and the Challenge of Counterinsurgency. Praeger, 2008. 208 pp. Covers both the evolution of U.S. doctrine, and the evolution of the conflict in Iraq. The book looks pretty short, for such a broad topic.

Seth Moulton, title unknown (forthcoming). Moulton was a Marine LT who served in Iraq from March to September 2003, and July 2004 to October 2005.

Capt. Eric Navarro, USMCR, God Willing: My Wild Ride with the New Iraqi Army. Washington, D.C.: Potomac Books, 2008.

Patrick K. O’Donnell, We Were One: Shoulder to Shoulder with the Marines Who Took Fallujah. New York: Da Capo (Perseus Group), 2006. xviii, 244 pp. O’Donnell was embedded with 1st Platoon, L Company, 3/1 Marines, who suffered more than 2/3 casualties in the November 2004 battle.

Captain Craig T. Olson, So This Is War: A 3rd U.S. Cavalry Intelligence Officer’s Memoirs of the Triumphs, Sorrows, Laughter, and Tears During a Year in Iraq. Bloomington, Indiana: Authorhouse, 2007. vii, 197 pp. Olson went into Iraq in March 2005 as a squadron S-2 in the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment. Went into Tal Afar late 2005. Names have been changed.

Ilario Pantano, with Malcolm McConnell, Warlord: No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy. New York: Threshold Editions (Simon & Schuster), 2006. 405 pp. Pantano, a Marine lieutenant, was charged with murder for the shooting of two men he says were insurgents, in al Anbar province, 4/15/2004. Charges were dropped (see NYT 5/27/05).

LTG David H. Petraeus, Interview, 11 December 2006. Ft. Leavenworth: Combat Studies Institute, 2005. 14 pp. Covers General Petraeus' tour in Iraq from June 2004 to September 2005, with responsibility for training Iraqi forces (General Schwitters, below, had previously been in charge of this).

Michael M. Phillips, The Gift of Valor: A War Story. Broadway, 2005. 256 pp. pb. Broadway, 2006. 256 pp. The story of Corporal Jason Dunham, of the 3/7 Marines, who died of wounds suffered in April 2004, throwing himself on an enemy grenade. He was awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously. Phillips, a reporter for the Wall Street Journal, was embedded in the unit. A lot on his medical care, reactions of relatives and neighbors.

Chris Plekenpol, Faith in the Fog of War. Sisters, Oregon: Multnomah Publishers, 2006. 184 pp. Captain Plekenpol went to Iraq in 2004 as a tank company commander. He has since left the Army and is going into the ministry.

Martha Raddatz, The Long Road Home: A Story of War and Family. New York: Putnam, 2007. 310 pp. Battle in Sadr City that began April 4, 2004, in which the 1st Cavalry Division lost 8 men killed. The 2/5 Cavalry had just arrived in Baghdad, knowing little about Sadr City, not expecting trouble. Deals a lot with impact on families. Author an ABC correspondent.

Mark J. Reardon and Jeffrey A. Charlston, From Transformation to Combat: The First Stryker Brigade at War. Washington, D.C.: Center of Military History, 2007. vi, 73 pp. The 3d Brigade of the 2d Infantry Division, in Iraq November 2003 to October 2004. Includes Najaf, Baghdad, Tall Afar, and Mosul.

Paul Rieckhoff, Chasing Ghosts: A Soldier’s Fight for America from Baghdad to Washington. New York: NAL Caliber (Penguin), 2006. vi, 326 pp. Rieckhoff arrived in Iraq in April 2003, commanding a National Guard platoon: Third Platoon, Bravo Company, 3/124 Infantry, 1st Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division. He spent most of a year in Baghdad; for part of that he was with the 1st Armored Division. Pretty negative.

William G. Robertson, ed., In Contact! Case Studies from the Long War, Volume 1. Ft. Leavenworth: Combat Studies Institute Press, 2007. v, 158 pp. Five combat incidents in Iraq (at least two of which were in Mosul) and two in Afghanistan, November 2004 to September 2005.

Lt. Col. (Ret.) Nathan Sassaman, with Joe Layden, Warrior King: The Triumph and Betrayal of an American Commander in Iraq. New York: St. Martin’s, 2008. 307 pp. Sassaman was the effective and highly regarded commander of the 1/8 Infantry, whose career was destroyed by an incident in which some of his men were charged with having murdered some Iraqi civilians in the area of Balad (NNE of Baghdad), on the night of January 3/4, 2004, and Sassaman was charged with having covered it up.

Charles W. Sasser, None Left Behind: The 10th Mountain Division and the Triangle of Death. New York: St. Martin's, 2009 (forthcoming). 304 pp. The impression I get from the advance publicity for the book is that Sasser is looking mainly at one battalion, not at the whole division.

Rob Schultheis, Waging Peace: A Special Operations Team’s Battle to Rebuild Iraq. New York: Gotham Books (Penguin), 2005. xxxv, 188 pp. Schultheis arrived in Baghdad in February 2004 to be embedded in the 425th Civil Affairs Battalion. Initially he focused on its Public Health Team, then on Civil Affairs Team 13 of Alpha Company.

BG James Schwitters, Interview, 13 December 2006. Ft. Leavenworth: Combat Studies Institute, 2006. 10 pp. General Schwitters commanded the Coalition Military Assistance Training Team (CMATT) from June 2004 to June 2005.

Senate Select Committee on Intelligence

William Spracher, ed., Interrogation: World War II, Vietnam, and Iraq. Washington, DC: National Defense Intelligence College, 2008. viii, 253 pp. The Iraq section is: Major Nicholas R. Dotti, "The Accidental Interrogator: A Case Study and Review of U.S. Army Special Forces Interrogations" (pp. 147-215). Critical of FM 2-22.3; says this manual, written in an effort to prevent abusive interrogation, creates situations in which Special Forces personnel find themselves forbidden to interrogate a prisoner at all, by any methods.

LTC Wayne Sylvester, Interview, October 20, 2005. Ft. Leavenworth: Combat Studies Institute, 2005. 24 pp. As commander of the 439th Military Police Detachment (mobilized November 2003, in Iraq January 2004 to January 2005), Sylvester was in charge of Camp Cropper, which held the high-value detainees, including Saddam Husain.

Jonathan Trouern-Trend, Birding Babylon: A Soldier’s Journal from Iraq. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. 80 pp. SFC Trouern-Trend, an avid birdwatcher, served in Iraq in a National Guard unit from early 2004 to early 2005. Camp Anaconda, Mosul.

Cherilyn A. Walley, "Psychological Operations in Baghdad." Veritas: Journal of Army Special Operations History 2 (2006), pp. 76-80.

Bing West, No True Glory: A Frontline Account of the Battle for Fallujah. New York: Bantam (Random House), 2005. xvi, 380 pp.

Leonard Wong and Stephen Gerras, CU @ the FOB: How the Forward Operating Base is Changing the Life of Combat Soldiers. Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, 2006. v, 36 pp.

Donald P. Wright and Timothy R. Reese, On Point II: Transition to the New Campaign: The United States Army in Operation Iraqi Freedom, May 2003 – January 2005. Ft. Leavenworth: Combat Studies Institute, 2008. xviii, 696 pp.

 

Post 2003: British Military

Johnson Beharry VC, with Nick Cook, Barefoot Soldier: The Amazing True Story of Courage Under Fire. London: Sphere (Little, Brown [Hachette]), 2006. 434 pp. Some identities have been changed. Slightly more than 100 pages deal with Iraq. Beharry won the Victoria Cross for actions in May and June 2004 with the 1st Battalion Princess of Wales’ Royal Regiment in southern Iraq.

Nigel Cawthorne, On the Frontline: True Stories of Outstanding Bravery by British Forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. London: John Blake Publishing, 2007. This deals mostly with Iraq, and I believe mostly with Royal Marines.

Tim Collins, Rules of Engagement: A Life in Conflict. Headline, 2006. 512 pp. Collins commanded the First Battalion of the Royal Irish Regiment going into Iraq. An American civil affairs officer accused him of mistreating prisoners, but the British enquiry cleared him in September 2003.

Captain Tam Henderson and John Hunt, Warrior: A True Story of Bravery and Betrayal in the Iraq War. Mainstream Publishing, 2008. 224 pp. Henderson rose from the ranks to become a captain in the British Army. While a sergeant in the Black Watch, he was blamed for a friendly fire incident March 22, 2003, at Az Zubayr, which he says was caused by spectacular malfunctioning of a weapon--a chain gun--that fired of its own accord. He raised a ruckus, blaming the Ministry of Defense and international arms companies for the incident.

Richard Holmes, Dusty Warriors. London: Harper, 2006. pb London: Harper Perennial (HarperCollins), 2007. xxvii, 385 pp. The 1st Battalion Princess of Wales’ Royal Regiment, sent to southern Iraq (especially Maysan province) in April 2004.

Chris Hunter, Eight Lives Down: The World’s Most Dangerous Job in the World’s Most Dangerous Place. (London?): Bantam, 2007. 368 pp. Eight Lives Down: The Story of the World’s Most Dangerous Job in the World’s Most Dangerous Place. New York: Delacorte Press (Random House), 2008. x, 351 pp. A senior British bomb disposal officer.

Steven McLaughlin, Squaddie: A Soldier’s Story. Mainstream Publishing, 2006. 320 pp. Includes service in Iraq and Northern Ireland.

Sgt Dan Mills, Sniper One: The Blistering True Story of a British Battle Group Under Siege. London: Michael Joseph (Penguin), 2007. xxiii, 350 pp. Published in the United States as Sniper One: On Scope and Under Siege with a Sniper Team in Iraq. New York: St. Martin’s, 2008. Mills arrived in Iraq in 2004 with 1st Battalion, The Princess of Wales’ Royal Regiment.

Mark Nicol, The Last Round: The Battle of Majar al-Kabir. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2005. 301 pp. pb The Last Round: The Red Caps, the Paras and the Battle of Majar. London: Cassell, 2006. 301 pp. In Majar al-Kabir, about 250 miles SE of Baghdad, 24 June 2003. Six British military policemen were killed by a mob angry over house searches by the Parachute Regiment. A patrol of the Parachute Regiment managed to escape the mob.

Mark Nicol, Condor Blues: British Soldiers at War. Mainstream Publishing, 2007. 320 pp. A rather negative look at two platoons of British troops at Camp Condor, in Maysan province, living with and training Iraqi Civil Defense Corps troops.

Philip Woodhall, Iraq and Back. Trafford, 2006. 238 pp. Woodhall, a corporal in an engineer unit of the Territorial Army (British reserves), was mobilized in May 2003 to go to Iraq.

 

Prisons and Prisoner Abuse

Janine A. Bower, "Thereby Become a Monster: Complex Organizations and the Torture at Abu Ghraib." Ph.D. dissertation, Sociology, Western Michigan University, 2007. v, 154 pp.

Tim Collins, Rules of Engagement: A Life in Conflict. Headline, 2006. 512 pp. Collins commanded the First Battalion of the Royal Irish Regiment going into Iraq. An American civil affairs officer accused him of mistreating prisoners, but the British enquiry cleared him in September 2003.

Mark Danner, Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib, and the War on Terror. New York: New York Review Books, 2004. xiv, 580 pp. Pages 1-71 are articles Danner published in the New York Review of Books in 2003 and 2004. The remainder of the volume is documents, including many White House and DOD memos, and the Taguba, Schlesinger, Fay, and Jones reports (see below).

Amanda Jean Davis, "Unveiling the Rhetoric of Torture: Abu Ghraib and American National Identity." Ph.D. dissertation, Communications Studies, University of Texas at Austin, 2008. xv, 267 pp. AAT 3311441.

Enemy Prisoners of War, Retained Personnel, Civilian Internees and Other Detainees. Washington, D.C.: Headquarters, Departments of the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, and the Marine Corps, 1997. ii, 80 pp. To the Army this was one document in the Army Regulations series, AR 190-8. This was, in theory, the basic policy document defining how U.S. military personnel should treat detainees.

Richard Falk, Irene Gendzier, and Robert Jay Lifton, eds., Crimes of War: Iraq. New York: Nation Books, 2006. xviii, 478 pp. A lot of this is background on war crimes and international law; the section “U.S. Policy in Iraq” doesn’t start until p. 183.

James F. Gebhardt, The Road to Abu Ghraib: US Army Detainee Doctrine and Experience. Global War on Terrorism Occasional Paper #6. Ft. Leavenworth, KS: Combat Studies Institute Press, 2005. vi, 143 pp.

Geneva Conventions of 1949. When people talk about international law in connection with the Iraq War, what they most often mean (or should mean) is the Geneva Conventions of 1949. There were four of these:

Deanna Germain, with Connie Lounsbury, Reaching Past the Wire: A Nurse at Abu Ghraib. St. Paul, Minnesota: Borealis Books, 2007. 224 pp. Lt. Col. Germain was a nursing supervisor, after the period of the famous abuse. She was mobilized in Feb 2003, sent to Kuwait in April. In April 2004, at the end of a one-year tour in Kuwait, she was within hours of flying back to the United States when informed that she was being extended for 120 days. She was sent to Iraq, assigned to Abu Ghraib.

Philip Gourevitch and Errol Morris, Standard Operating Procedure. New York: Penguin, 2008. 286 pp. Published in paperback as The Ballad of Abu Ghraib. New York: Penguin, 2009. 286 pp. Traces the prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib, and why it happened. Morris interviewed a lot of key participants for a documentary film of the same title.

Karen J. Greenberg and Joshua L. Dratel, eds., The Torture Papers: The Road to Abu Ghraib. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xxxiv, 1249 pp.
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Human Rights Watch, Leadership failure: firsthand accounts of torture of Iraqi detainees by the U.S. Army’s 82nd Airborne Division. New York: Human Rights Watch, 2005. 28 pp.

Investigation of Intelligence Activities at Abu Ghraib. Arlington, VA: Department of Defense, 2004. 178 pp.

Col. (Ret.) Larry C. James, Ph.D., with Gregory A. Freeman, Fixing Hell: An Army Psychologist Confronts Abu Ghraib. New York and Boston: Grand Central Publishing, 2008. xvi, 286 pp. Some names, locations, and military unit identities have been changed. The Army sent Col. James to Abu Ghraib in June 2004. He had previously served five months at Guantanamo Bay.

General Janis Karpinski, with Steven Strasser, One Woman’s Army: The Commanding General of Abu Ghraib Tells Her Story. New York: Miramax Books, 2005. vii, 242 pp. pb New York: Miramax, 2006. 256 pp.

J. Phillip London and the CACI Team, Our Good Name: A Company’s Fight to Defend Its Honor and Get the Truth Told About Abu Ghraib. Regnery, 2008. 780 pp. London, CEO of CACI, a company that does a lot of government contracting, denies accusations that one or more CACI interrogators were involved in the prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib.

S.G. Mestrovic, The Trials of Abu Ghraib: An Expert Witness Account of Shame and Honor. Boulder, Colorado: Paradigm, 2007. xii, 233 pp.

Steven M. Miles, M.D., Oath Betrayed: Military Medicine and the War on Terror. New York: Random House, 2006. 240 pp.

Lila Rajiva, The Language of Empire: Abu Ghraib and the American Media. New York: Monthly Review Press, 2005. 224 pp.

Lawrence Rockwood, Walking Away from Nuremberg: Just War and the Doctrine of Command Responsibility. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2007. 223 pp.

James R. Schlesinger et. al., "Final Report of the Independent Panel to Review Department of Defense Detention Operations." August 2004. 102 pp. plus appendices.

Senate Committee on Armed Services

Steven Strasser, ed., The Abu Ghraib Investigations. New York: Public Affairs, 2004. xxiii, 175 pp. The texts of two official reports on the abuses at Abu Ghraib prison, outside Baghdad: James R. Schlesinger et. al., "Final Report of the Independent Panel to Review Department of Defense Detention Operations" and Maj. Gen. George R. Fay, "Investigation of the Abu Ghraib Detention Facility and 205th Military Intelligence Brigade" (see above for availability of both those reports online).

MG Antonio M. Taguba, "Article 15-6 Investigation of the 800th Military Police Brigade."

 

Women

Nadje Al-Ali & Nicola Pratt, What Kind of Liberation? Women and the Occupation of Iraq. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. xviii, 221 pp.

Christina Asquith, Sisters in War: A Story of Love, Family, and Survival in the New Iraq. New York: Random House, 2009. 224 pp. Two Iraqi and two American (one of them Palistinian-American) women.

Helen Benedict, The Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women Serving in Iraq. Beacon Books, 2009. Looks at five women who served between 2003 and 2006.

Lisa Bowden and Shannon Cain, eds., Powder: Writing by Women in the Ranks, from Vietnam to Iraq. Kore Press, 2008. 147 pp.

Rick Bragg, I Am a Soldier Too: The Jessica Lynch Story. Knopf, 2003. A PFC in the U.S. Army's 507th Maintenance Company, she was captured by Iraqi forces in An-Nasiriyah on March 23, 2003, and later rescued.

Kirsten Holmstedt, Band of Sisters: American Women at War in Iraq. Stackpole, 2007. 384 pp.

Kirsten Holmstedt, The Girls Come Marching Home: Stories of Women Warriors Returning from the War In Iraq. Stackpole, 2009. 325 pp.

Sana Al-Khayyat, Honour and Shame: Women in Modern Iraq. London: Saqi Books, 1990.

Sarah Masters and Caroline Simpson, eds., Iraq: Women's Rights Under Attack: Occupation, Constitution and Fundamentalisms. WLUML Occasional Paper 15. London: Women Living Under Muslim Law, December 2006. x, 36 pp.

Lynne O’Donnell, High Tea in Mosul: The true story of two Englishwomen in war-torn Iraq. London: Cyan Books, 2007. ix, 213 pp. Two women who in England in the 1970s fell in love with Iraqi men who were there for higher education, married them, and then went with them to Iraq to live. About half the book deals with the US invasion of 2003, and its aftermath. The author, a journalist, met them in Mosul in April 2003.

Kelly Oliver, Women as Weapons of War: Iraq, Sex, and the Media. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. 208 pp.

Riverbend, Baghdad Burning: Girl Blog from Iraq. Foreword by Ahdaf Soueif. Introduction by James Ridgeway. New York: The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2005. xxiii, 286 pp.

Cheryl Lynn Ruff, Ruff’s War: A Navy Nurse on the Frontline in Iraq. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2005. xii, 209 pp.

Katherine M. Skiba, Sister in the Band of Brothers: Embedded with the 101st Airborne in Iraq. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2005. xvi, 257 pp. Skiba, a reporter and photographer for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, went into Iraq in March 2003 with the 159th Aviation Brigade, 101st Airborne Division.

Ali Elizabeth Turner, Ballad for Baghdad: An Ex-Hippie Chick Viet Nam War Protester’s Three Years in Iraq. Morgan James Publishing, 2008. Ms. Turner worked 2004-2007 in Morale, Welfare, and Recreation Centers in Baghdad.

Kayla Williams, with Michael E. Staub, Love My Rifle More Than You: Young and Female in the U.S. Army. New York: Norton, 2005. 290 pp. Sergeant Williams, who had been trained in Arabic at the Defense Language Institute, went into Iraq March 22, 2003, with 3rd Platoon, Delta Company, 311th Military Intelligence Battalion, attached to the 3rd Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division.

Thura al-Windawi, Thura’s Diary: My Life in Wartime Iraq. New York: Viking (Penguin), 2004. 244 pp. The diary of a young woman in Baghdad, from just before the beginning of the war in 2003, up through the early stages of the occupation. For juvenile readers.

James E. Wise, Jr. and Scott Baron, Women at War: World War II to Iraqi Freedom. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2006. 234 pp.

Haifa Zangana, City of Widows: An Iraqi Woman’s Account of War and Resistance. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2007. 169 pp. Daughter of a Kurdish father and an Arab mother, she spent some time in Syria in the late 1960s, providing medical services to Palestinians. She became a member of the Central Leadership (CL) faction of the Iraqi Communist Party; she was arrested in 1972 and imprisoned for six months. Bitterly hostile to both the Baath and the US occupation of Iraq.

See also Sara Daniel under General and Miscellaneous; Ditmars and Sgrena under Post 2003; Germanin and Karpinski under Prisons and Prisoner Abuse; Morgan under Contractors and Contracting; Garrels and Spinner under Media; and Kraft and Lonsdale under Medical and Stress Issues.

 

Post-2003: Contractors and Contracting

Carter Andress, Contractor Combatants: Tales of an Imbedded Capitalist. Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 2007. v, 305 pp. A former U.S. Army officer, Andress first went to Iraq to work for Custer Battles, later was one of the founders of American-Iraqi Solutions Group (AISG).

James Ashcroft, Making a Killing: The Explosive Story of a Hired Gun in Iraq. London: Virgin Books, 2006. xiv, 241 pp. Ashcroft, a former British Army captain, arrived in Iraq September 2003, stayed 18 months.

Gary Brandon, Kiwi Under Fire: Bosnia, Afghanistan, Iraq or Kiwi Under Fire in Iraq [maybe one title on the cover and another on the title page?]. Christchurch, New Zealand: Willson Scott Publishing, 2007. 172 pp.

James Jay Carafano, Private Sector, Public Wars: Contractors in Combat – Afghanistan, Iraq, and Future Conflicts. Praeger, 2008. 252 pp.

Pratap Chatterjee, Iraq, Inc.: A Profitable Occupation. Seven Stories Press, 2004. 280 pp.

Pratap Chatterjee, Halliburton's Army: How a Well-Connected Texas Oil Company Revolutionized the Way America Makes War. New York: Nation Books, 2009. 304 pp.

Congressional Research Service. Some research publications have been placed online by the Federation of American Scientists and other organizations.

Steve Fainaru, Big Boy Rules: America’s Mercenaries Fighting in Iraq. New York: Da Capo (Perseus), 2008. xvii, 254 pp. Fainaru, a reporter for the Washington Post, embedded with contractors of the Crescent Security Group.

John Geddes, Highway to Hell: An ex-SAS soldier’s account of the extraordinary private army hired to fight in Iraq. London: Century, 2006. 230 pp. Vague on dates and organizational identies.

House Committee on Armed Services

House Committee on Government Reform/House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

House Committee on the Judiciary

David Isenberg, Shadow Force: Private Security Contractors in Iraq. Praeger, 2009. 264 pp.

James L. Jones et al., eds., Security in Iraq. Nova Science Publishing, 2009 (forthcoming).

Deborah C. Kidwell, Public War, Private Fight? The United States and Private Military Companies. Global War on Terrorism Occasional Papers #12. Ft. Leavenworth, KS: Combat Studies Institute Press, 2005. viii, 79 pp.

Simon Low, The Boys from Baghdad: From the Foreign Legion to the Killing Fields of Iraq. Mainstream Publishing, 2007. 272 pp. Low, a former member of the French Foreign Legion, went to Iraq as a contractor, guarding convoys on the roads south of Baghdad. Looks a bit comic-book.

A.G. Matheny, Baghdad FTU: The True Story of a Contractor on the Battlefield. Omaha, Nebraska: Concierge Publishing, 2009. 289 pp. The book does not discuss Matheny's previous career in U.S. Army Special Forces; it deals with his work from 2001 onward for BAE Systems, a company that builds and supports military communications systems. Most of the book is on his work in Iraq, 2003 onward, but there is some discussion of work in Jordan, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, and Kuwait, 2001-2003.

T. Christian Miller, Blood Money: Wasted Billions, Lost Lives, and Corporate Greed in Iraq. New York: Little, Brown (Hachette), 2006. xviii, 333 pp. Miller is a reporter for the Los Angeles Times.

Cynthia I. Morgan, Cindy in Iraq: A Civilian’s Year in the War Zone. New York: Free Press (Simon & Schuster), 2006. 256 pp. Ms. Morgan, an experienced truck driver in the United States, spent a year, September 2003 to August 2004, as a truck driver in Iraq, sometimes convoy commander, for KBR. The book is shorter than it looks; not a lot of words to the page.

Dina Rasor and Robert Bauman, Betraying Our Troops: The Destructive Results of Privatizing War. New York: Palgrave Macmillan (St. Martin's), 2007. xiii, 274 pp. Both logistical and combat contractors.

Allison Stanger, One Nation Under Contract: The Outsourcing of American Power and the Future of Foreign Policy. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. 256 pp.

Jeremy Scahill, Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army. New York: Nation Books (Avalon), 2007. xxvii, 452 pp.

Colonel Gerald Schumacher, United States Army Special Forces (ret.), A Bloody Business: America’s War Zone Contractors and the Occupation of Iraq. St. Paul, Minnesota: Zenith Press (MBI), 2006. 304 pp. Library has.

Senate Committee on Foreign Relations

Wyman E. Shuler, III, "Generals in three-piece suits---contractors in camouflage: A critical assessment of contractors in Iraq." Ph.D. dissertation, Old Dominion University, 2008. 359 pp. AAT 3312652. Compares cases in which there was or was not a military contract administrator.

Ben R. Simms and Curtis D. Taylor, "The Battle for Salem Street." Army History, No. 65 (Fall 2007), pp. 5-15. A US armored unit, D Company, 2/8 Infantry, in Diwaniyah (the capital of Qadisiyah province), October 2006.

Christopher Spearin, "A justified heaping of blame? An assessment of privately supplied security sector training and reform in Iraq--2003-2005 and beyond," in Donald Stoker, ed., Military Advising and Assistance: From Mercenaries to Privatization, 1815-2007 (Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2008), pp. 224-238.

Sheryl Elam Tappan, Shock and Awe in Fort Worth: How the U. S. Army Rigged the Free and Open Competition to Replace Halliburton's Sole-Source Oil Field Contract in Iraq. Pourquoi Press, 2004. 152 pp.

James A. Tyner, The Business of War: Workers, Warriors and Hostages in Occupied Iraq. Aldershot, Hampshire, U.K. and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2006. viii, 152 pp. Looks at foreign labor in Iraq, especially from the Philippines.

 

The Second U.S. - Iraq War: Media

Azadeh Aalai, "Media Depictions of the Vietnam and Iraq Wars." Ph.D. dissertation, Applied Social Psychology, Loyola University of Chicago, 2008. AAT 3340150. xii, 224 pp. Looks at The New York Times and Time magazine, 1964-68 and 2003-7. After a brief skim, my reaction was negative, but the analytic approach is different enough from the ones to which I am accustomed that I cannot be sure my negative reaction was justified.

Stuart Allan and Barbie Zelizer, eds., Reporting War: Journalism in Wartime. London and New York: Rougledge (Taylor & Francis), 2004. x, 374 pp. Part 3, "Reporting the Iraq war":

John Lee Anderson, The Fall of Baghdad. New York: Penguin, 2004. x, 389 pp.

Chris Ayres, War Reporting for Cowards. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2005. 280 pp. Ayres, a reporter for The Times of London, was not an appropriate choice to be embedded in a Marine unit going into Iraq in 2003.

Sara Beck and Malcolm Downing, eds., The Battle for Iraq: BBC News Correspondents on the War Against Saddam. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. 215 pp.

Bennett, W. Lance, Regina G. Lawrence, and Steven Livingston, When the Press Fails: Political Power and the News Media from Iraq to Katrina. University of Chicago Press, 2007. xiii, 263 pp.

Kevin J. Brogan, "Defense policy: An approach for exploring the military-media tension." Ph.D. dissertation, Public Administration and Policy, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 2006. viii, 191 pp. AAT 3207956. Covers World War II, Vietnam, and the two US-Iraq Wars. Short, poorly documented, and based too much on what other authors say was in the media, not enough on looking for himself at what appeared in the media.

Jean-Marie Charon and Arnaud Mercier, Armes de communication massive: Informations de guerre en Irak: 1991-2003. CNRS Communication, 2004.

Richard Engel, A Fist in the Hornet’s Nest: On the Ground in Baghdad Before, During, and After the War. New York: Hyperion, 2004. 256 pp.

Richard Engel, War Journal: My Five Years in Iraq. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008. 392 pp. An NBC Correspondent for part of the time he was in Iraq.

Mohamed Fadel Fahmy, Baghdad Bound: An Interpreter’s Chronicles of the Iraq War. Victoria, British Columbia: Trafford, 2004. Fahmy, an Egyptian, went to work for the Los Angeles Times as a translator in 2003. Covers the American invasion of 2003 and its immediate aftermath.

Mark Louis Finney, "And knowing is half the battle: How endorsements for war were hidden in CNN's coverage of the conflict with Iraq." Ph.D. dissertation, Journalism, University of Colorado at Boulder, 2007. vii, 265 pp. AAT 3273673.

Howard Friel and Richard Falk, The Record of the Paper: How the New York Times Misreports US Foreign Policy. London: Verso, 2004. x, 304 pp. The bulk of the book criticizes the New York Times for its support of the Iraq War, but there is one Vietnam chapter, with considerable discussion of Tonkin Gulf.

Micah Garen and Marie-Hélène Carleton, American Hostage: A Memoir of a Journalist Kidnapped in Iraq and the Remarkable Battle to Win His Release. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005. xii, 273 pp.

Anne Garrels, Naked in Baghdad: The Iraq War and the Aftermath as Seen by NPR’s Correspondent. New York: Picador (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux), 2004. x, 246 pp.

Ashley Gilbertson, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: A Photographer’s Chronicle of the Iraq War. Introduction by Dexter Filkins. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. 260 pp. Gilbertson, an Australian photojournalist, was in Kurdistan when the war broke out in 2003. He went south with Kurdish troops to Mosul. The photos in this book also cover the next several years, including the Battle of Fallujah.

Louann Haarman and Linda Lombardo, eds., Evaluation and Stance in War News: A Linguistic Analysis of American, British and Italian Television News Reporting of the 2003 Iraqi War. Continuum, 2009. 256 pp.

Michael Hastings, I Lost My Love in Baghdad: A Modern War Story. New York: Scribner, 2008. ix, 276 pp. Hastings was a Newsweek correspondent in Baghdad from 2005 to 2007. Some names have been changed.

Mike Hoyt, Reporting Iraq: An Oral History of the War by the Journalists Who Covered It. Hoboken, New Jersey: Melville House, 2007. 187 pp.

Chris Hughes, Road Trip to Hell: Tabloid Tales of Saddam, Iraq and a Bloody War. (London?): Monday Books, 2006. xii, 260 pp. Hughes was a correspondent for the London Daily Mirror. The detailed account of his investigation of the shooting in Fallujah [4/28/03] looks important. (But he refers to US Marines; I thought it was 82d Airborne?) He was present at the second shooting incident, two days later.

Inside Iraq. A blog written by Iraqi journlists employed by the McClatchy Newspapers.

Deborah Lynn Jaramillo, "Ugly war, pretty package: How the Cable News Network and the Fox News Channel made the 2003 invasion of Iraq high concept." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Texas at Austin, 2006. 399 pp. AAT 3226171.

Journalism.org. Web site of the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism.

Yahya R. Kamalipour and Nancy Snow, eds., War, Media, and Propaganda: A Global Perspective. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004. xv, 261 pp.
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Bill Katovsky and Timothy Carlson, eds., Embedded: The Media at War in Iraq, an Oral History. Guilford, Connecticut: Lyons Press (Globe Pequot Press), copyright 2003, Lyons Press edition 2004. xx, 422 pp.

Olfa Lamloum, ed., Irak: Les medias en guerre. Paris: Sindbad/Actes Sud, 2003. 238 pp. Studies of the way the media in various countries covered the Iraq war of 2003. Pierre Vanrie on the Turkish press, Olfa Lamloum on al-Jazira, Henri Maler on the French press, . . .

Justin Lewis, Rod Brookes, Nick Mosdell, and Terry Threadgold, Shoot First and Ask Questions Later: media coverage of the 2003 Iraq War. New York: Peter Lang, 2006. 224 pp.

Marc Lynch, Voices of the New Arab Public: Iraq, Al-Jazeera, and Middle East Politics Today. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006. xiv, 293 pp.

Kazuhiro Maeshima, "Japanese and U.S. Media Coverage of the Iraq War: A Comparative Analysis." Ph.D. dissertation, Government and Politics, University of Maryland, College Park, 2007. vii, 286 pp. AAT 3277408.

Michael Massing, Now They Tell Us: The American Press and Iraq. New York: New York Review Books, 2004. xviii, 91 pp. Preface by Orville Schell. The bulk of the book is three articles (one of them somewhat modified) originally published in the New York Review of Books in 2003 and 2004.

Peter Millership and Reuters Staff(?), Under Fire: Untold Stories from the Front Line of the Iraq War. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2003 or 2004.

Greg Mitchell, So Wrong for So Long: How the Press, the Pundits—and the President—Failed in Iraq. Foreword by Joseph E. Galloway. New York: Union Square Press, 2008. 320 pp.

NBC News; Marc Kusnetz, William M. Arkin, General Montgomery Meigs, and Neal Shapiro, Operation Iraqi Freedom: 22 Days in Words and Pictures. Kansas City: Andrews McMeel, 2003. xvii, 238 pp., plus a DVD.

Robert D. Novak, The Prince of Darkness: 50 Years Reporting in Washington. Crown Forum, 2007. 662 pp.

Lt. Col. Michael J. Oehl, Embedded Media: Failed Test or the Future of Military/Media Relations? Carlisle Barracks, PA: U.S. Army War College, 2004. vi, 16 pp. Military-media relations from Vietnam to the 2003 Iraq War.

Michael Pasquarett et al., eds., Perspectives on Embedded Media: Selected Papers from U.S. Army War College Carlisle Barracks, PA: U.S. Army War College, (2004?). vi, 106 pp.

Lila Rajiva, The Language of Empire: Abu Ghraib and the American Media. New York: Monthly Review Press, 2005. 224 pp.

Dan Rather and the Reporters of CBS News, America at War: The Battle for Iraq: A View from the Frontlines. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003. xiv, 162 pp. plus a DVD of CBS News coverage. Goes up through May of 2003.

Thomas Rid, War and Media Operations: The US Military and the Press from Vietnam to Iraq. Routledge, 2007. 226 pp. (Cass Military Studies).

Josh Rushing, with Sean Elder, Mission Al Jazeera: Build a Bridge, Seek the Truth, Change the World. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. x, 233 pp. Rushing, as a U.S. Marine, was a media liaison. After leaving the corps, he was hired by Al-Jazeera.

Jackie Spinner, with Jenny Spinner, Tell Them I Didn’t Cry: A Young Journalist’s Story of Joy, Loss, and Survival in Iraq. New York: Scribner, 2006. xviii, 265 pp. Jackie spinner arrived in Iraq in May 2004 as a junior reporter for the Washington Post; she and stayed nine months.

Colonel Glenn T. Starnes, USMC, "Leveraging the Media: the Embedded Media Program in Operation Iraqi Freedom." Carlisle Barracks, PA: U.S. Army War College, 2004. v, 20 pp.

Bruno Stevens, Baghdad: Truth Lies Within. Texts by Jon Lee Anderson (of the New Yorker), Monica Garcia Prieto (of El Mundo), and John G. Morris (of the New York Times). Ghent: Ludion, 2004. 239 pp. A photo book.

Ann Marie Strahm, "Prestige Press Reporting of War and Occupation: Enemy Combatants or a Coalition of the Willing?" Ph.D. dissertation, Sociology, University of Oregon, 2007. xvi, 241 pp. AAT 3259284. Looks at the way the New York Times and the Washington Post covered the occupation of Iraq, May 2003 through June 2004. Argues that these newspapers were generally supportive of U.S. government policy.

"Scott Thomas" (pseudonym; real name Scott Thomas Beauchamp). Early in 2007, The New Republic began publishing occasional articles under this name, written by an American soldier currently serving in Iraq. The articles reflected poorly on the U.S. military. In July 2007, The Weekly Standard raised doubts about the truthfulness of the articles and the identity of the author.

Marilyn Thomsen, "The Education of War: How Covering War Impacts Journalists' Understanding of Their Mission." Ph.D. dissertation, Claremont Graduate University, 2007. x, 231 pp. AAT 3254344. Based primarily on interviews with seventeen American journalists who had covered the U.S. war in Iraq since March 2003.

Howard Tumber and Jerry Palmer, Media at War: The Iraq Crisis. Sage, 2004.

Martin Walker, ed., The Iraq War, As Witnessed by the Correspondents and Photographers of United Press International. Washington, D.C.: Brassey’s, 2004. xvi, 224 pp., plus unpaginated color plates at the end.

Gina Wilkinson, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sky: Domesticity, Danger and Deadlines – Confessions of a Foreign Correspondent in Iraq. East Street Publications, 2007. 368 pp.

 

The Second U.S. - Iraq War: Medical and Stress Issues

SPC Michael Anthony, Mass Casualties: A Young Medic’s True Story of Death, Deception, and Dishonor in Iraq. Avon, Massachusetts: Adams Media, 2009. xv, 234 pp. Names and some other details have been changed, and I was unable to find, in a brief skim, any indication of the dates Anthony served in Iraq.

Bridget C. Cantrell, Down Range: To Iraq and Back. Foreword by Lt. Col. (Ret.) Dave Grossman. WordSmith, 2005. PTSD and related issues.

Christopher P. Coppola (compiled by Meredith Coppola), Made a Difference for That One: A Surgeon's Letters Home from Iraq. New York: iUniverse, 2005. xiv, 132 pp.

Deanna Germain, with Connie Lounsbury, Reaching Past the Wire: A Nurse at Abu Ghraib. St. Paul, Minnesota: Borealis Books, 2007. 224 pp. Lt. Col. Germain was a nursing supervisor, after the period of the famous abuse. She was mobilized in Feb 2003, sent to Kuwait in April. In April 2004, at the end of a one-year tour in Kuwait, she was within hours of flying back to the United States when informed that she was being extended for 120 days. She was sent to Iraq, assigned to Abu Ghraib.

Robert Gray, Remember Me. Philadelphia: Xlibris, 2005. 406 pp. Gray, an officer, served in an ambulance unit.

Michael C. Hodges, M.D., A Doctor Looks at War: My Year in Iraq. Tate, 2006. 198 pp. 2003-2004.

Charles W. Hoge, et. al., “Combat Duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, Mental Health Problems, and Barriers to Care.” New England Journal of Medicine, vol. 351, no. 1 (July 1, 2004), pp. 23-32. Soldiers returning from Iraq had higher rates of combat exposure, and higher rates of PTSD, than soldiers returning from Afghanistan. An editorial by Matthew J. Friedman, “Acknowledging the Psychiatric Cost of War,” on pp. 75-77 of the same issue, comments on the article.

House Committee on Armed Services

House Committee on Veterans' Affairs

Cdr. Richard Jadick, with Thomas Hayden, On Call in Hell: A Doctor’s Iraq War Story. New York: NAL Caliber (Penguin), 2007. 275 pp. As battalion surgeon with the 1/8 Marines May 2004 to January 2005, Jadick did surgery much farther forward than was normal, during the battle for Fallujah.

Heidi Squier Kraft, Rule Number Two: Lessons I Learned in a Combat Hospital. Boston: Little, Brown, 2007. x, 243 pp. Navy Lt. Commander/Dr. Kraft, a clinical psychologist, was sent to Iraq early in 2004 to work in a combat hospital at Al Asad Air Base. Names have been changed.

Elissa M. Lonsdale, Blood, Tears, and IV’s: Memoirs of a U.S. Army Medic in Operation Iraqi Freedom. PublishAmerica, 2005. 107 pp. Sergeant Lonsdale, serving with the 173d Airborne Brigade, arrived in Iraq in July 2003.

Thomas A. Middleton, Saber's Edge: A Combat Medic in Ramadi, Iraq. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 2009.

Occupational and environmental health surveillance of deployed forces: tracking toxic casualties. Hearing before the Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats, and International Relations of the Committee on Government Reform, House of Representatives, July 19, 2005. iii, 214 pp.
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Daryl S. Paulson, "An investigation into the psychological effects of the U.S. occupation of Iraq on American troops." Ph.D. dissertation, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, 2008. 157 pp. AAT 3304167. Based on twelve veterans in Bozeman, Montana, who were suffering PTSD after service as reservists in Iraq. Paulson, who had previously worked with Vietnam veterans suffering from PTSD, says the Iraq veterans show different symptoms; he believes this is because the trauma is so much more recent.

Daryl S. Paulson and Stanley Krippner, Haunted by Combat: Understanding PTSD in War Veterans Including Women, Reservists, and Those Coming Back from Iraq. Praeger, 2007. 177 pp.

 

 

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