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.
- Volume I. xix, 1207 pp. Introduction by
David Kay. Chapter 1 (pp. 1-65) contains a chronology going back to 1920, and documents going back to 1983, but the
bulk of the volume is made up of documents dated from August 1990 to August 2001.
Volume II. xiv, 1380 pp. Introduction by Andrew Parasiliti. Documents dated from September 2001 to March 2003.
Volume III. xiv, 1928 pp. Introduction by Kenneth M. Pollack. Documents dated from March 2003 to April 2006.
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.
DS 62.8 .F53 2005
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.
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.
The State Department has been making the complete texts of
recent volumes available through the Internet, at its
1958-1960,
volume XII: Near East region; Iraq; Iran; Arabian Peninsula. 1993. xxix, 846 pp. (Iraq is
pp. 289-530.)
1961-1963,
volume XVII: Near East, 1961-1962. 1994. lix, 790 pp.
1961-1963,
volume XVIII: Near East, 1962-1963. 1995. lxvi, 881 pp.
1961-1963, microfiche supplement, Near East, Africa. Supplement to volumes XVII, XVIII,
XX, and XXI.
1964-1968,
volume XXI: Near East Region; Arabian Peninsula. 2000. xxxi, 919 pp. (Iraq is pp. 333-389.)
1969-1976,
volume E-4: Documents on Iran and Iraq, 1969-1972. 2006. (This volume has been published
only in electronic form, not in hard copy.)
Long War
Occasional Papers /
Global War on Terrorism
Occasional Papers (Ft. Leavenworth, KS: Combat Studies Institute Press)
Lt. Col. Louis A. DiMarco,
Traditions, Changes, and
Challenges: Military Operations and the Middle Eastern City. Global War on Terrorism Occasional Paper
#1. Ft. Leavenworth, KS: Combat Studies Institute Press, 2004. vi, 71 pp.
#6: James F. Gebhardt,
The Road to Abu Ghraib:
US Army Detainee Doctrine and Experience. 2005. vi, 143 pp.
#7: David P. Cavaleri,
Easier Said than Done:
Making the Transition Between Combat Operations and Stability
Operations. vi, 94 pp. Japan, Afghanistan, and Iraq.
#19: Robert D. Ramsey III, ed.,
Advice for Advisors: Suggestions and
Observations form Lawrence to the Present. v, 181 pp. A collection of essays. Several deal with post-2003
Iraq.
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.
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.)
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.
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").
Brigadier Nigel R.F. Aylwin-Foster, British Army,
"Changing the
Army for Counterinsurgency Operations" (pp. 2- )
Lieutenant Colonel Geoffrey B. Demarest, U.S. Army, Retired, Ph.D., J.D., and
Lieutenant Colonel Lester W. Grau, U.S. Army, Retired,
"Maginot Line
or Fort Apache? Using Forts to Shape the Counterinsurgency Battlefield" (pp. 35-40). Broadly
comparative; there is some discussion of Iraq, but not a lot.
March-April 2006 (vol. LXXXVI, no. 2)
Brigadier General Daniel P. Bolger,
"So You Want to Be an
Adviser" (pp. 2- )
Dale Andrade and Lieutenant Colonel James H. Willbanks,
"CORDS/Phoenix:
Counterinsurgency Lessons from Vietnam for the Future" (pp. 9-23)
Major Ross Coffey,
"Revisiting CORDS:
The Need for Unity of Effort to Secure Victory in Iraq" (pp. 24- )
Colonel Joseph D. Celeski,
"Strategic Aspects
of Counterinsurgency" (pp. 35- )
Eliot Cohen; Lieutenant Colonel Conrad Crane, U.S. Army, Retired;
Lieutenant Colonel Jan Horvath, U.S. Army; and Lieutenant Colonel John Nagl, U.S. Army;
"Principles, Imperatives,
and Paradoxes of Counterinsurgency" (pp. 49- )
Colonel Kevin C.M. Benson,
"OIF Phase IV:
A Planner’s Reply to Brigadier Aylwin-Foster" (pp. 61- ). Reply to the article in the
November-December 2005 issue, above.
September-October 2006 (vol. LXXXVI, no. 5)
Jacob Kipp, Ph.D.; Lester Grau; Karl Prinslow; and Captain Don Smith III;
"The Human Terrain System:
A CORDS for the 21st Century " (pp. 8- )
Kyle Teamey and Lieutenant Colonel Jonathan Sweet,
"Organizing
Intelligence for Counterinsurgency" (pp. 24- )
Major Dan Zeytoonian, et al.
"Intelligent Design:
COIN Operations and Intelligence Collection and Analysis" (pp. 30- )
Special Edition, October 2006 (includes reprints of some of the above)
Montgomery McFate and Andrea V. Jackson,
"The Object Beyond War: Counterinsurgency and the Four Tools of Political Competition." pp. 56-69.
David H. Petraeus,
"Learning Counterinsurgency: Observations from Soldiering in Iraq." pp. 45-55.
Counterinsurgency
Reader II - Special Edition (August 2008)
March-April 2009 (Vol. LXXXIX, no. 2)
Lt. Col. Dale Kuehl,
"Testing Galula
in Ameriyah: The People are the Key" (pp. 72-80). Kuehl commanded the 1-5 Cavalry in Baghdad, including Ameriyah
neighborhood, October 2006 to January 2008. He endorses the ideas of the Army's new Counterinsurgency field manual
(see above) and of David Galula (see above).
Lt. Col. James A. Crider,
"A View from
Inside the Surge" (pp. 81-88). Crider commanded the 1-4 Cavalry in Baghdad (Doura neighborhood, in particular)
2007-8. He says American operations there validated David Galula's ideas (see above).
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.
Nora Bensahel, Olga Oliker, and Heather Peterson,
Improving Capacity for Stabilization and
Reconstruction Operations. MG-852-OSD. Santa Monica: Rand, 2009. xxi, 81 pp.
David C. Gompert, Terrence K. Kelly, Brooke Stearns Lawson, Michelle Parker, and Kimberly Colloton,
Reconstruction Under Fire: Unifying Civil and
Military Counterinsurgency. MG-870-OSD. Santa Monica: Rand, 2009. xxvi, 131 pp.
Todd C. Helmus, Christopher Paul, and Russell W. Glenn,
Enlisting Madison Avenue: The Marketing Approach
to Earning Popular Support in Theaters of Operations. MG-607-JFCOM. Santa Monica: Rand, 2007. xxvii, 211 pp. Despite
the title, this is not just about advertising techniques. Skimming the introduction, I was struck by the passage on p. 5
suggesting that unnecessary killing of innocent civilians is bad public relations.
Bruce Hoffman,
Insurgency and Counterinsurgency
in Iraq. OP-127-IPC/CMEPP. Santa Monica: Rand, 2004. v, 18 pp.
Austin Long,
On "Other War": Lessons from Five Decades of RAND Counterinsurgency Research. Santa Monica: RAND,
2006. xviii, 101 pp.
Walter L. Perry and John Gordon IV,
Analytic Support to
Intelligence in Counterinsurgencies. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2008. xxv, 57 pp.
RAND Counterinsurgency Study.
Paper 1: David C. Gompert,
Heads We Win--The Cognitive
Side of Counterinsurgency (COIN). Santa Monica: RAND, 2007. xvii, 62 pp.
Paper 2: William Rosenau,
Subversion and
Insurgency. Santa Monica: RAND, 2007. vii, 24 pp.
Paper 3: Daniel Byman,
Understanding
Proto-Insurgencies. Santa Monica: RAND, 2007. xiii, 60 pp.
Paper 4: Angel Rabasa, Lesley Anne Warner, Peter Chalk, Ivan Khilko, Paraag Shukla,
Money in the Bank--Lessons
Learned from Past Counterinsurgency (COIN) Operations. Santa Monica: RAND,
2007. xxi, 80 pp. Case studies: the Philippines (1899-1902), Algeria (1954-1962), Vietnam (1959-1972), El Salvador (1980-1992),
Jammu and Kashmir (1947-present), and Colombia (1963-present).
Paper 6: Austin Long,
Doctrine of Eternal
Recurrence--The U.S. Military and Counterinsurgency Doctrine, 1960-1970 and 2003-2006. Santa Monica:
RAND, 2008. xii, 34 pp.
Volume 1: Martin C. Libicki, David C. Gompert, David R. Frelinger, and Raymond Smith,
Byting Back--Regaining Information
Superiority Against 21st-Century Insurgents. Santa Monica: RAND,
2007. xxxiv, 159 pp.
Volume 2: Bruce R. Pirnie and Edward O'Connell,
Counterinsurgency in Iraq
(2003-2006). Santa Monica: RAND, 2008. xxvii, 106 pp.
Volume 4: Seth G. Jones,
Counterinsurgency in
Afghanistan. Santa Monica: RAND, 2008. xvii, 157 pp.
Volume 5: John Mackinlay and Alison Al-Baddawy,
Rethinking
Counterinsurgency. Santa Monica: RAND, 2008. xiii, 65 pp.
Final Report: David C. Gompert and John Gordon IV, with Adam Grissom, David R. Frelinger, Seth G. Jones,
Martin C. Libicki, Edward O'Connell, Brooke K. Stearns, and Robert E. Hunter,
War by Other Means:
Building Complete and Balanced Capabilities for Counterinsurgency. Santa Monica: RAND,
2008. lxiii, 453 pp.
Arroyo Center. This division of the RAND Corporation works specifically for the U.S. Army.
Keith Crane et al.,
Guidebook for Supporting
Economic Development in Stability Operations. TR-633-A. Santa Monica: Rand, 2009. xxiii, 142 pp.
Eric V. Larson, Richard E. Darilek, Daniel Gibran, Brian Nichiporuk, Amy Richardson, Lowell H. Schwartz, and Cathryn Quantic Thurston,
Foundations of Effective Influence Operations:
A Framework for Enhancing Army Capabilities. MG-654-A. Santa Monica: Rand, 2009. xxiv, 201 pp.
Eric V. Larson, Derek Eaton, Brian Nichiporuk, and Thomas S. Szayna,
Assessing Irregular Warfare:
A Framework for Intelligence Analysis. MG-668-A. Santa Monica: Rand, 2008. xviii, 67 pp.
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.
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.
The Gertrude Bell Project at the University of Newcastle
has placed online a large quantity of Gertrude Bell's papers, including diaries, letters, and photos.
Janet Wallach,
Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell, Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of
Lawrence of Arabia. New York: Doubleday, 1996. xxv, 419 pp.
H.V.F. Wimstone,
Gertrude Bell: The Lady of Iraq. Stacey International. 504 pp.
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.
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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
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
War in the Gulf. Staff report, Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, August 1984. v, 38 pp.
War in the Persian Gulf: the U.S. takes sides. Staff report,
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, November 1987. x, 49 pp.
United States Policy Toward Iraq: Human Rights, Weapons Proliferation, and International Law. Hearing,
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, June 15, 1990. iii, 93 pp.
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.
William J. Allen,
"Persian Gulf Crisis: Operation EARNEST WILL" (pp. 157-166)
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.
Jacques Borde,
Un crime de guerre américain: Vol 655 Iran Air. Paris: Dualpha, 2000. 165 pp.
Rear Admiral William M. Fogarty,
Formal Investigation into the Circumstances Surrounding the Downing of Iran Air Flight 655 on 3 July
1988. 28 July 1988. 53 pp.
Investigation into the downing of an Iranian airliner by the U.S.S. "Vincennes". Hearing,
Senate Committee on Armed Services, September 8, 1988. iii, 56 pp.
Iran Air Flight 655 Compensation. Hearings before the Defense Policy Panel of the House
Committee on Armed Services, August 3, 4, September 9, and October 6, 1988. iv, 411 pp.
July 3, 1988 Attack by the Vincennes on an Iranian Aircraft. Hearing before the
Investigations Subcommittee and the Defense Policy Panel of the House Committee on Armed Services, July 21,
1992. iii, 37 pp.
Will and Sharon Rogers, with Gene Gregston,
Storm Center: The USS Vincennes and Iran Air Flight 655. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press,
1992. xii, 264 pp. Will C. Rogers commanded the Vincennes.
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.
Crisis in the Persian Gulf: Sanctions, Diplomacy, and War. Hearings,
House Committee on Armed Services, December 4-20, 1990. v, 920 pp.
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.
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.
James Baker,
Secretary of State.
Richard Cheney,
Secretary of Defense.
Robert Gates,
Deputy National Security Adviser.
Richard Haass,
National Security Council Director for Near East and South Asian Affairs.
General Colin Powell,
Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Brent Scowcroft,
National Security Adviser.
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.
House Committee on Government Operations
Impact of Iraqi invasion on United States energy and economic security. Hearing, House Committee on Government Operations,
September 5, 1990. iii, 300 pp.
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.
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 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 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:
John T. Correll,
"The First Thirty Days". 73:10
(October 1990).
John T. Correll,
"The Indictment of Airpower". 74:1
(January 1991).
James W. Canan,
"Washington Watch:
Airpower Opens the Fight". 74:3 (March 1991).
John T. Correll,
"Nitwitness News". Editorial, 74:4
(April 1991).
James W. Canan,
"Washington Watch:
How to Command and Control a War". 74:4 (April 1991).
Captain Dan Hampton, USAF,
"The Weasels at War". 74:7 (July 1991).
Phillip S. Meilinger,
"More Bogus Charges Against Airpower." Air Force Magazine, October 2002
(85:10). Rebuts various criticisms of the use of air power, from Vietnam through recent events. The criticisms being
refuted look to me, sometimes, like straw
men. The text.
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.
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.
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.
Thomas A. Keaney and Eliot A. Cohen, Summary Report. xx, 276 pp.
Volume I: Planning and Command and Control. Front matter (xi pp.); Part I,
Alexander S. Cochran et al., Planning (xvii, 246 pp.); Part
II, Thomas C. Hone et al., Command and Control (xiv, 410 pp.); Glossary.
Volume II: Operations and Effects and Effectiveness. Front matter (xi pp.); Part 1, Barry D. Watts
et al., Operations (ix, 364 pp.); Part II, Barry D. Watts
et al., Effects and Effectiveness (xi, 414 pp.); Glossary.
Volume III: Logistics and Support.
Volume IV: Weapons, Tactics, and Training and Space Operations. Front matter (xi pp.); Part 1,
John F. Guilmartin, Jr., et al., Weapons, Tactics, and Training (xvi, 468 pp.); Part II, Richard A. Gunkel
et al., Space Operations (vii pp.) [the actual text was classified and could not be printed in this
edition; there is a three-page unclassified summary printed here]; Glossary.
Volume V: A Statistical Compendium and Chronology. Front matter (xi pp.); Part 1, Col. David Tretler
et al., A Statistical Compendium (xxii, 660 pp.); Part II, Col. David Tretler
et al., Chronology of the Gulf War (xi, 243 pp.); Glossary.
Richard G. Davis,
Decisive Force: Strategic Bombing in the Gulf War. Washington: GPO/Air Force History and Museums
Program, 1996. 87 pp.
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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.
General Buster Glosson,
Commander, CENTCOM Air Offensive Campaign.
General Charles Horner,
Commander, 9th Air Force.
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.
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).
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.
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.
Michael G. Anderson,
The Air Force Rapid Response Process: Streamlined acquisition during
Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. n-3610/3-AF. Santa Monica, CA: RAND, 1992. xvi, 14 pp.
Mary E. Chenowith,
The Civil Reserve Air Fleet and Operation
Desert Shield/Desert Storm: Issues for the Future. MR-298-AF. Santa Monica,
CA: Rand, 1993. xx, 78 pp.
Fred L. Frostic,
Air Campaign Against the Iraqi Army in the
Kuwaiti Theater of Operations. MR-357-AF. Santa Monica, CA: Rand, 1994. xviii, 70 pp.
Stephen T. Hosmer,
Psychological Effects of U.S. Air Operations in
Four Wars 1941-1991: Lessons for U.S. Commanders. Santa Monica:
Rand, 1996. MR-576-AF. xxxviii, 220 pp. Vietnam is pp. 27-42; Desert Storm is pp. 43-68.
Dana J. Johnson,
Roles and Missions for Conventionally Armed Heavy Bombers:
An Historical Perspective. N-3481-AF. Santa Monica, CA: Rand, 1994. xxvii, 128 pp. General discussion of Vietnam: pp. 51-83;
detailed data on Linebacker II: pp. 102-124; Desert Storm: pp. 83-88.
Eric V. Larson and Bogdan Savych,
Misfortunes of War: Press and Public Reactions to
Civilian Deaths in Wartime. Santa Monica, California:
Rand, 2006. xxix, 267 pp. [This has also been published in hard copy with a copyright of 2007; the only change I have been
able to spot is that the bibliography in the hard-copy version has been reset in a smaller type face, so the same bibliography
takes up four fewer pages.] The first case considered is the bombing of the bunker at Al Firdos,
February 13, 1991, on which the evidence is somewhat fudged to make the bombing appear more justified
than it was. Page 43 says the bunker, originally built as a civilian shelter, had been converted into
an Iraqi command-and-control facility. Note 33 adds what purports to be a summary of information from
Human Rights Watch report Needless Deaths in the Gulf War [see below under Sherry]:
"several days before the bombing, local residents of the Ameriyah district of Baghdad had complained to local
officials about their lack of access to what had, during the Iran-Iraq war, been a civilian air defense
shelter. Iraqi officials reportedly relented and opened the upper levels to civilians." In fact, while the
report presented a range of conflicting evidence, its main tenor was:
The bunker had been functioning as a civilian shelter right from the beginning of the
air campaign. It had for a while been limited to civilians from elite families. About two weeks
(not just several days) before the bombing it had been opened to a much wider range of civilians. There
was uncertainty about whether some part of the bunker might have contained comunications equipment. (pp.
130-133).
John Lund, Ruth Berg, and Corinne Replogle,
Project Air Force analysis of the air war in the Gulf:
An assessment of strategic airlift operational efficiency. R-4269/4-AF. Santa
Monica, CA: Rand, 1993. xxiv, 108 pp.
Project Air Force Desert Shield Assessment Team,
Project Air Force assessment of Operation Desert Shield:
The buildup of combat power. MR-356-AF. Santa Monica, CA: Rand, 1994. xx, 81 pp. Two classified volumes, R-4147-AF
and N-3427-AF, had previously been published. This unclassified publication appears to be derived primarily from R-4147-AF.
James A. Winnefeld, Preston Niblack, and Dana J. Johnson,
A League of Airmen: U.S. Air Power in the
Gulf War. Santa Monica, CA: Rand, 1994. xxvi, 335 pp.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Operation Desert Storm: Apache Helicopter Fratricide Incident, GAO/OSI-93-4, U.S. GAO, June 30, 1993.
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.
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
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:
Colonel David A. Rolston,
"Victory Artillery in
Operation Desert Shield." April 1991, pp. 23-27.
"Deception, Firepower
and Movement: 1st Cav in Desert Storm." June 1991, pp. 31-34. Interview with Brig. Gen. Tommy R. Franks,
former Assistant Division Commander for Maneuver, 1st Cavalry Division.
Lt. Col. Stephen J. Arntz,
"'Roadrunner' Operations
in Desert Storm." June 1991, pp. 35-39. The 5-18 Field Artillery ("Roadrunners") crossed the Iraqi
border with the 1st Infantry Division (Mechanized), but then in joined the 1st Armored Division.
Major Mark S. Jensen,
"MLRS in Operation
Desert Storm." August 1991, pp. 30-34. The 1-27 Field Artillery.
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.
General Sir Peter de la
Billiere, Commander, British forces.
General Walt Boomer,
Commander of Marine forces.
General Frederick Franks,
Commander of VII Corps.
General Norman Schwarzkopf,
Commander, CENTCOM.
General Calvin Waller,
Deputy Commander, CENTCOM.
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.
Major John F. Antal,
"Iraq's Mailed Fist" January-February
1991, pp. 27-30.
Michael R. Jacobson,
"Iraqi Infantry" January-February
1991, pp. 33- .
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. 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.
Major Jason K. Kamiya,
A History of the 24th Mechanized Infantry Division Combat Team during Operation Desert Storm:
"The Attack to Free Kuwait" (January through March 1991). Fort Stewart, Georgia, 1991. iii, 62 pp.
24th Mechanized Infantry Division Combat Team, Operation Desert Storm , Attack Plan OPLAN 91-3.
Fort Stewart, Georgia, 1992.
24th Mechanized Infantry Division Combat Team Historical Reference Book:
A collection of historical letters, briefings, orders, and other miscellaneous documents pertaining to the
defense of Saudi Arabia and the attack to free Kuwait. Fort Stewart, Georgia, 1992.
United States Army Reserve in Operation Desert Storm: Ground Transportation Operations. Washington,
D.C.: U.S. Army Reserve, 1994. v, 85 pp.
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).
Charles D. Melson, Evelyn A. Englander, and David A. Dawson, eds.,
U.S. Marines in the Persian Gulf, 1990-1991: Anthology and Annotated Bibliography. Washington, D.C.:
History and Museums Division, Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps / GPO, 1992. ix, 258 pp.
Ronald J. Brown,
With
Marine Forces Afloat in Desert Shield and Desert Storm. Washington, D.C.: History and Museums Division,
Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps / GPO, 1998. x, 253 pp.
Lt. Col. Charles H. Cureton,
With
the 1st Marine Division in Desert Shield and Desert Storm. Washington, D.C.: History and Museums Division, Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps / GPO, 1993. vii, 154 pp.
Lt. Col. Dennis P. Mroczkowski,
With
the 2d Marine Division in Desert Shield and Desert Storm. Washington, D.C.: History and Museums Division, Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps / GPO, 1993. ix, 107 pp.
Charles J. Quilter,
With
the I Marine Expeditionary Force in Desert Shield and Desert Storm. Washington, D.C.: History and Museums Division,
Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps / GPO, 1993. viii, 131 pp.
Major John T. Quinn II,
Marine
Communications in Desert Shield and Desert Storm. Washington, D.C.: History and Museums Division,
Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps / GPO, 1996. xi, 124 pp.
Steven M. Zimmeck,
Combat
Service Support in Desert Shield and Desert Storm. Washington, D.C.: History and Museums Division,
Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps / GPO, 1999. x, 246 pp.
Front
matter and pp. 1-112
pp. 113-246.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight / House Committee on Government Reform [see also under
GAO below]
The
Status of Efforts to Identify Persian Gulf War Syndrome. Hearing, Subcommittee on Human Resources and
Intergovernmental Relations, House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, March 11, 28, June 25,
September 19, 1996. v, 540 pp.
Gulf
War Syndrome: To Examine New Studies Suggesting Links between Gulf Service and Higher Rates of
Illnesses. Hearing, House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, January 21, 1997. iii, 332 pp.
Status
of the Department of Veterans Affairs to Identify Gulf War Syndrome. Hearing, Subcommittee on Human Resources,
House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, April 24, 1997. iii, 361 pp.
The
Status of Efforts to Identify Persian Gulf War Syndrome: Recent GAO Findings. Hearing, Subcommittee on Human Resources,
House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, June 24, 1997. iii, 97 pp.
Status
of Efforts to Identify Gulf War Syndrome: Multiple Toxic Exposures. Hearing, Subcommittee on Human Resources,
House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, June 26, 1997. iii, 424 pp.
Gulf
War Veterans' Illnesses: Health of Coalition Forces. Hearing, Subcommittee on National
Security, Emerging Threats, and International Relations, House Committee on Government Reform, January 24,
2002. iii, 202 pp. Serial No. 107-137.
Examining
VA Implementation of the Persian Gulf War Veterans Act of 1998. Hearing, Subcommittee on National
Security, Emerging Threats, and International Relations, House Committee on Government Reform, November 15,
2005. iii, 318 pp. Serial No. 109-114.
House Committee on Veterans' Affairs
Hearing on War-related Illnesses and on the VA's Sexual Trauma Counseling Program Force
Health Protection: Lessons Learned and Applied from the First Gulf War. Hearing, Subcommittee
on Oversight and Investigations, House Committee on Veterans' Affairs, July 9, 2003. iii, 97 pp.
Hearing on Gulf War Exposures. House Committee on Veterans' Affairs, Subcommittee on Health,
July 26, 2007.
Witness List with
links to the statements of the witnesses.
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.
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.
Ronald D. Fricker, Jr., et. al.,
Pesticide Use During the Gulf War: A Survey of Gulf War
Veterans. MR-1018/12-OSD. Santa Monica: Rand, 2000. xxxii, 118 pp.
David H. Marlowe,
Psychological and Psychosocial Consequences of
Combat and Deployment with Special Emphasis on the Gulf War. MR-1018/11-OSD. Santa Monica: Rand, 2000. xxi, 181 pp.
Richard A. Rettig,
Military Use of Drugs Not Yet Approved by FDA for CW/BW Defense. Santa Monica:
Rand, 1999. 122 pp. Available online if you are browsing
through an institution that has paid for a subscription to NetLibrary.
A Review of the Scientific Literature As It Pertains to Gulf War Illnesses. Santa Monica, CA:
Rand, 1998-2003. Some volumes also vailable online, to subscribers, through NetLibrary.
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
Persian Gulf War Illnesses: Are We Treating Veterans Right?. Hearing before the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs,
United States Senate, November 16, 1993. iv, 184 pp.
Amending Title 38, United States Code, to clarify the definition of "disease" for purposes of the entitlement of veterans
to benefits under such title, to revise and improve the assessment of the health consequences of the service during the Persian Gulf War,
and for other purposes. Report of the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, United States Senate, to accompany S. 2330,
together with minority views. September 28, 1994. iii, 44 pp.
Reproductive Hazards and Military Service: What Are the Risks of Radiation, Agent Orange, and Gulf War
Exposures? Hearing before the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, United States Senate, August 5,
1995. iv, 513 pp.
Intelligence assessments of the exposure of U.S. military personnel to chemical agents during
Operation Desert Storm. Joint hearing, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and Senate Committee
on Veterans' Affairs, September 25, 1996. iii, 133 pp.
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)
Keith Rhodes,
Gulf War
Illnesses: Prelimary Assessment of DOD Plume Modeling for U.S. Troops' Exposure to Chemical Agents. Testimony
before the Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats, and International Relations,
House Committee on Government Reform], June 2, 2003. 37 pp.
Department of
Veterans Affairs: Federal Gulf War Illnesses Research Strategy Needs Reassessment. Report to the
Chairman, Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats, and International Relations,
House Committee on Government Reform, June 2004. 36 pp.
Gulf War
Illnesses: DOD's Conclusions about U.S. Troops' Exposure Cannot be Adequately Supported. Report to
Congressional Requesters [Robert Byrd of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and Christopher Shays,
Chairman of the Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats, and International Relations,
House Committee on Government Reform], June 2004. iv, 109 pp.
Keith Rhodes,
Gulf War
Illnesses: DOD's Conclusions about U.S. Troops' Exposure Cannot be Adequately Supported. Testimony
before the Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats, and International Relations,
House Committee on Government Reform], June 1, 2004. 27 pp.
Jeff Wheelwright,
The Irritable Heart: The Medical Mystery of the Gulf War. New York: Norton, 2001. 427 pp.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
United States Policy Toward Iraq. Hearing, House Committee on Armed Services,
March 10, 1999. iii, 53 pp.
Options for Dealing with Iraq. Hearing, Defense Policy Panel, House Committee on Armed Services,
August 10, 11, 1992. iii, 98 pp.
House Committee on Foreign Affairs/House committee on International Relations
U.S. Policy Toward Iraq 3 Years After the Gulf War. Hearing, Subcommittee on Europe and the
Middle East, House Committee on Foreign Affairs,
February 23, 1994. ii, 61 pp.
U.S. Policy Toward Iraq. Hearing, House Committee on International Relations,
March 28, 1996. iii, 92 pp.
U.S. Options in Confronting Iraq. Hearing, House Committee on International Relations,
February 25, 1998. iii, 85 pp. Paul D. Wolfowitz, Richard N. Haass, David A. Kay, and Eliot A. Cohen.
U.S.
Policy Toward Iraq. Hearing, House Committee on International Relations,
March 23, 2000. iii, 63 pp. David Welch and A. Elizabeth Jones of the Department of State, and Alina
Romanowski of the Department of Defense.
House Committee on National Security
United States Policy Toward Iraq. Hearing, House Committee on National Security,
September 26, 1996. iii, 84 pp.
United States Policy Toward Iraq. Hearing, House Committee on National Security,
September 16, 1998. iii, 91 pp.
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.
Senate Committee on Armed Services
The Situation in Iraq. Hearing, Senate Committee on Armed Services, September 12,
1996. iii, 47 pp.
U.S. Policy on Iraq. Hearing, Senate Committee on Armed Services, January 28,
1999. iii, 36 pp.
U.S. Policy Toward Iraq. Hearing, Senate Committee on Armed Services, September 19, 28,
2000. iii, 105 pp. Walter B. Slocombe, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy; Edward S. Walker,
Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs; Tommy R. Franks, Commander, CENTCOM; Anthony C. Zinni,
former Commander, CENTCOM; Richard Butler; Richard N. Perle, American Enterprise Institute.
Senate Committee on the Judiciary
Aftermath of war: The Persian Gulf refugee crisis. Staff report, Subcommittee on Immigration
and Refugee Affairs, Senate Committee on the Judiciary,
1991. ix, 37 pp.
National security considerations in asylum applications: A case study of six Iraqis. Hearing,
Subcommittee on Technology, Terrorism, and Government Information, Senate Committee on the Judiciary,
October 8, 1998. iii, 102 pp.
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
Civil War in Iraq Kurdistan in the Time of Saddam Hussein Iraq Claims Legislation U.S. policy toward Iran and Iraq Iraq:
Can Saddam Be Overthrown?. Hearing, Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs,
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, March 2, 1998. iii, 43 pp. Ahmed Chalabi, Richard N. Haass,
Zalmay Khalilzad, and R. James Woolsey.
Iraq:
Are Sanctions Collapsing?. Joint Hearing, Senate Committees on Foreign Relations and on
Energy and Natural Resources, May 21, 1998. iii, 60 pp. David Kay, Richard N. Perle, Thomas R. Pickering,
and Ken Pollack.
United
States Policy in Iraq: Public Diplomacy and Private Policy. Hearing, Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs,
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, September 9, 1998. iii, 37 pp. Lawrence S. Eagleburger; Martin Indyk,
Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs; Jeane J. Kirkpatrick; Richard W. Murphy; R. James
woolsey.
United States
Policy Toward Iraq. Hearing, Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs,
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, March 9, 1999. iii, 15 pp. A. Elizabeth Jones, Principal Assistant
Secretary of State for New Eastern Affairs.
U.S.
Policy Toward Iraq: Mobilizing the Opposition. Hearing, Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs,
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, June 23, 1999. iii, 37 pp. Ahmad Chalabi, Patrick Clawson, Rend
Rahim Francke, A. Elizabeth Jones.
Facing
Saddam's Iraq: disarray in the international community. Hearing, Senate Committee on
Foreign Relations, September 28, 1999. iii, 24 pp.
Saddam's
Iraq: sanctions and U.S. policy. Hearing, Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs,
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, March 22, 2000. iii, 74 pp. Charles Duelfer, Paul Leventhal,
Gary Milhollin, and Edward S. Walker (Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs).
The
liberation of Iraq: a progress report. Hearing, Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs,
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, June 28, 2000. iii, 19 pp. Ahmad Chalabi and Richard N. Perle.
United States
Policy Toward Iraq. Hearing, Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs,
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, March 1, 2001. iii, 43 pp. Anthony H. Cordesman, Morton H. Halperin,
Robert J. Kerrey, and Richard N. Perle.
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
Current
and Projected National Security Threats to the United States. Hearing, Senate Select Committee on
Intelligence, January 28, 1998. iii, 177 pp. FBI Director Robert Bryant; DCI George Tenet; DIA Director Lt. Gen.
Patrick M. Hughes; INR head Phyllis E. Oakley. Notable for the statement by J. Robert Kerrey, the ranking Democrat
on the committee, that the United States should consider shifting from containing the Iraqi dictatorship to a
policy of regime change (p. 77).
Current
and Projected National Security Threats to the United States. Hearing, Senate Select Committee on
Intelligence, February 7, 2001. iii, 73 pp. DCI George Tenet; DIA Director Vice Admiral
Thomas R. Wilson; INR acting head Thomas Fingar.
Current
and Projected National Security Threats to the United States. Hearing, Senate Select Committee on
Intelligence, February 2, 2002. iii, 348 pp. DCI George Tenet; DIA Director Vice Admiral
Thomas R. Wilson; INR head Carl W. Ford, Jr.; FBI Executive Assistant Director, Counterterrorism and
Counterintelligence, Dale L. Watson.
Geoff [Geoffrey Leslie] Simons,
The Scourging of Iraq: Sanctions, Law and Natural Justice, 2d ed. New York: VHPS/St. Martin’s,
1998. 384 pp. 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.
President William Jefferson Clinton, April 12, 2000. House Document 106-223. 7 pp.
President
William Jefferson Clinton, January 20, 2001. House Document 107-25. 8 pp.
President
George W. Bush, October 12, 2001. House Document 107-132. 9 pp.
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.
Daniel L. Haulman,
"Crisis in Iraq: Operation PROVIDE COMFORT (pp. 179-188)
William J. Allen,
"Crisis in Southern Iraq: Operation SOUTHERN WATCH" (pp. 189-195)
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.
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
The
Iraqi Oil for Food Program and Its Impact. Hearing, Subcommittee on Energy and Power,
House Committee on Commerce, March 26, 1999. iii, 105 pp.
House Committee on Energy and Commerce
The
United Nations Oil-for-Food Program: Saddam Hussein's Use of Oil Allocations to Undermine Sanctions and the
United Nations Security Council. Hearing, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations,
House Committee on Energy and Commerce, May 16, 2005. iii, 415 pp.
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
New
Proposals to Expand Iraqi Oil for Food: The End of Sanctions?. Hearing, Subcommittee on Near Eastern and
South Asian Affairs,
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, March 17, 1999. iii, 39 pp. Thomas R. Pickering, Under Secretary
of State for Political Affairs; Bill Richardson, Secretary of Energy.
House Committee on Government Reform
The
Iraq Oil-For-Food Program: starving for accountability. Hearing before the Subcommittee on National
Security, Emerging Threats,
and International Relations of the Committee on Government Reform, House of Representatives, April 21,
2004. iii, 285 pp.
The
U.N. Oil-for-Food Program: The Inevitable Failure of U.N. Sanctions. Hearing before the Subcommittee on
National Security, Emerging Threats,
and International Relations of the Committee on Government Reform, House of Representatives, April 12,
2005. iii, 193 pp.
House Committee on International Relations
The United Nations
Oil-for-Food Program: Issues of Accountability and Transparency. Hearing, April 28, 2004,
House Committee on International Relations. iii, 170 pp. Serial No. 108-110.
The
Oil-for-Food Program: Tracking the Funds. Hearing, November 17, 2004,
House Committee on International Relations. iii, 61 pp. Serial No. 108-157.
The Volcker Interim Report
on the United Nations Oil-for-Food Program. Hearing, February 9, 2005,
Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, House Committee on International Relations. iii, 98 pp. Serial
No. 109-28.
The United Nations
Oil-for-Food Program: The Cotecna and Saybolt Inspection Firms. Hearing, March 17, 2005,
Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, House Committee on International Relations. iii, 76 pp. Serial
No. 109-27.
The Role of BNP-Paribas in
the United Nations Oil-for-Food Program. Hearing, April 18, 2005,
Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, House Committee on International Relations. iii, 92 pp. Serial
No. 109-72.
Syria and the United Nations
Oil-for-Food Program. Joint Hearing, July 27, 2005, Subcommittee on the Middle East and Central Asia,
Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, House Committee on International Relations. v, 39 pp. Serial
No. 109-77.
The Oil-for-Food Program:
The Systemic Failure of the United Nations. Report, December 7, 2005,
House Committee on International Relations. 183
pp. Main text of the report
(the appendices are in separate .pdf files, accessible through
the committee's archive page.
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.
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
Israeli Attack on Iraqi Nuclear Facilities. Hearings, subcommittees of the House Committee on
Foreign Affairs, June 17, 25, 1981. iv, 132 pp. The June 7, 1981 Israeli bombing of the Osirak nuclear reactor.
Disarming Iraq: the status of weapons inspections. Hearing, September 15, 1998,
House Committee on International Relations. iii, 149 pp. Martin S. Indyk and William S. Ritter (Scott Ritter).
U.N.
Inspections of Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction Programs: Has Saddam Won?. Hearing, House Committee on
International Relations, September 26, 2000. iii, 37 pp. Ambassador Richard Butler of UNSCOM; Stephen J. Solarz.
U.S. Nonproliferation Policy after
Iraq. Hearing, June 4, 2003,
House Committee on International Relations. iii, 85 pp. Serial No. 108-38. Several non-government
witnesses, plus John Bolton, Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security.
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.
Senate Committee on Armed Services
The
Weapons of Mass Destruction Program of Iraq. Hearing, Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and
Capabilities, Senate Committee on Armed Services, February 27, 2002. iii, 114 pp. Anthony H. Cordesman and
Charles A. Duelfer.
Efforts
to determine the status of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction and related programs. Hearing,
Senate Committee on Armed Services, January 28, 2004. iii, 48 pp. Dr. David Kay.
The
report of the Special Advisor to the Director of Central Intelligence for strategy regarding
Iraqi weapons of mass destruction programs. Hearing, Senate Committee on
Armed Services, October 6, 2004. iii, 70 pp.
Report of an
Inquiry into the Alternative Analysis of the Issue of an Iraq-al Qaeda
Relationship. Minority staff report, Senate Committee on Armed Services, October 21, 2004, issued
under the name of Senator Carl Levin, who had assigned the minority staff to write it. 46 pp.
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
Israeli Air Strike. Hearings, Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, June 11, 19, 25, 1981. iv,
299 pp. The June 7, 1981 Israeli bombing of the Osirak nuclear reactor.
The U.S. Policy Regarding United Nations Inspections of Iraqi Chemical Sites. Joint Hearing, Senate
Committees on Foreign Relations and Armed Services, September 3, 1998. iii, 48 pp. Strom Thurmond chaired
the hearing. The witness was William S. Ritter (Scott Ritter), who had resigned from UNSCOM the previous
week. He exaggerated the situation pretty wildly: "Iraq is positioning itself today so that once
effective inspection regimes have been terminated, it will be able to reconstitute the entirety of its former
nuclear, chemical and ballistic missile delivery system capabilities within a period of 6 months" (p. 27).
The
Formulation of Effective Nonproliferation Policy. Hearings, Senate
Committee on Foreign Relations, March 21, 23, 28, 30, 2000. iii, 217 pp. The primary witnesses on Iran and Iran
(pp. 121-155) were Richard Butler, Anthony H. Cordesman, and Rolf Ekeus. But it might be worth checking the
testimony of Donald Rumsfeld and Stephen J. Hadley, too see whether they said anything that illuminates their
future policies.
The
Global Reach of al-Qaeda. Hearing, Subcommittee on International Operations and Terrorism, Senate
Committee on Foreign Relations, December 18, 2001. iii, 32 pp.
The
January 27 UNMOVIC and IAEA Reports to the U.N. Security Council on Inspections in Iraq. Hearing, Senate
Committee on Foreign Relations, January 30, 2003. iii, 82 pp. Deputy Secretary of State Richard L. Armitage;
U.S. Representative to the United Nations John D. Negroponte.
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
Iraq. Hearing, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, September 19, 1996. iii, 29 pp.
Report
of the Select Committee on Intelligence on the U.S. Intelligence Community’s Prewar Intelligence
Assessments on Iraq together with Additional Views. Report, Senate Select Committee on
Intelligence, July 9, 2004. ix, 511
pp. Also
online broken into smaller chunks at GlobalSecurity.org.
Report on the use by the intelligence community of information provided by the Iraqi National Congress:
together with additional and minority views. Report, Senate Select Committee on
Intelligence, 2006. 208 pp.
Report on postwar findings about Iraq's WMD programs and links to terrorism and how they compare with
prewar assessments: together with additional and minority views. Report, Senate Select Committee on
Intelligence, 2006. 148 pp.
Report on Whether Public Statements Regarding Iraq by U.S. Government Officials Were Substantiated
By Intelligence. June 5, 2008. 172 pp. S. Rpt. 110-345.
Report on
intelligence activities relating to Iraq conducted by the Policy Counterterrorism Evaluation Group and the Office of Special Plans
within the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, together with minority views. Report,
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, June 5, 2008. 56 pp.
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.
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.
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.
Laura H. Baldwin, John A. Ausink, Nancy F. Campbell, John G. Drew, Charles Robert Roll, Jr.,
Analyzing Contingency
Contracting Purchases for Operation Iraqi Freedom (Unrestricted Version). Santa Monica: RAND,
2008. xxiii, 88 pp.
James Dobbins, Seth G. Jones, Benjamin Runkle, and Dissharth Mohandas,
Occupying Iraq:
A History of the Coalition Provisional Authority. Santa Monica: RAND, 2009. xlvi, 364 pp.
Russell W. Glenn, Christopher Paul, Todd C. Helmus, and Paul Steinberg,
"People Make the City," Executive Summary:
Joint Urban Operations and Insights from Afghanistan and Iraq. MG-428/2-JFCOM. Santa Monica: RAND, 2007. xxii, 62 pp.
Daniel Gonzales, John Hollywood, Jerry M. Sollinger, James McFadden, John DeJarnette, Sarah Harting, and Donald Temple,
Networked Forces in Stability Operations:
101st Airborne Division, 3/2 and 1/25 Stryker Brigades in Northern Iraq. MG-593-OSD. Santa Monica: RAND, 2007. xli, 178 pp.
Katharine Hall and Dale Stahl,
An Argument for Documenting
Casualties: Violence Against Iraqi Civilians 2006. Santa Monica: RAND, 2008. xviii, 51 pp.
Steven T. Hosmer,
Why the Iraqi Resistance to the
Coalition was So Weak. Santa Monica: RAND, 2007. xxiv, 152 pp.
Olga Oliker et al.,
U.S. Policy Options for Iraq:
A Reassessment. Santa Monica, CA: RAND, 2007. xxi, 80 pp. Very
specific proposals.
Bruce R. Pirnie and Edward O'Connell,
Counterinsurgency in Iraq
(2003-2006). Santa Monica: RAND, 2008. xxvii, 106
pp. (RAND
Counterinsurgency Study, Volume 2).
Andrew Rathmell,
"Planning post-conflict reconstruction in Iraq:
what can we learn?". RP-1197. This is Rand's reprint of an article published in
International Affairs, 81:5 (2005), pp. 1013-1038.
Andrew Rathmell, Olga Oliker, Terrence K. Kelly, David Brannan, and Keith Crane,
Developing Iraq’s
Security Sector: The Coalition Provisional Authority's Experience. Santa Monica:
Rand, 2005. xxiv, 97 pp.
David E. Thaler et al.,
Future U.S. Security Relationships with Iraq and
Afghanistan: U.S. Air Force Roles. MG-681-AF. Santa Monica: Rand, 2008. xxx, 151 pp.
Arroyo Center. This division of the RAND Corporation works specifically for the U.S.
Army.
Frank Camm and Victoria A. Greenfield,
How Should the Army Use Contractors
on the Battlefield? Assessing Comparative Risk in Sourcing Decisions. Santa Monica:
Rand, 2005. xxix, 216 pp.
In 2003 The Arroyo Center initiated a major project on the planning and execution of U.S.operation in
Iraq.
Richard A. Darilek, Walter L. Perry, Laurinda L. Rohn, and Jerry M. Solinger, eds.,
Decisive War, Elusive Peace:
Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. MG-641-A. Santa Monica: Rand, An unclassified overview of the research
findings from the project. (Forthcoming? By the serial number it should have been out a while ago,
but I can't find any indication this has actually been published.)
Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. The six volumes (Executive Summary and five numbered volumes)
are classified. But an unclassified version of volume IV has already been published, and unclassified
versions of other volumes may appear at some point in the future.
Walter L. Perry et al.,
Operation IRAQI FREEDOM: Executive Summary.
Jefferson P. Marquis et al.,
Operation IRAQI FREEDOM, Volume I, The Genesis.
Bruce R. Pirnie et al.,
Operation IRAQI FREEDOM, Volume II, Defeating Saddam.
Walter L. Perry et al.,
Operation IRAQI FREEDOM, Volume III, Managing the War.
Nora Bensahel et al.,
Operation IRAQI FREEDOM, Volume IV, Prewar Planning and the Occupation of Iraq.
Eric Peltz et al.,
Operation IRAQI FREEDOM, Volume V, Sustaining the Force.
Nora Bensahel, Olga Oliker, Keith Crane, Rochard P. Brennan, Jr., Heather S. Gregg, Thomas
Sullivan, and Andrew Rathmell,
After Saddam: Prewar Planning
and the Occupation of Iraq. MG-642-A. Santa Monica: Rand, 2008. xxxvii, 273 pp. An
unclassified version of Volume IV of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM (above).
Eric Peltz, Marc L. Robbins, Kenneth J. Girardini, Rick Eden, John M. Halliday, and Jeffrey Angers,
Sustainment of Army
Forces in Operation Iraqi Freedom: Major Findings and Recommendations. MG-342. Santa Monica: Rand, 2005. xxv, 125 pp.
Eric Peltz, John M. Halliday, Marc L. Robbins, and Kenneth J. Girardini,
Sustainment of Army
Forces in Operation Iraqi Freedom: Battlefield Logistics and Effects on Operations. MG-344 (MG-344-A?). Santa Monica: Rand,
2005. xxix, 81 pp.
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.
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.
House Committee on Armed Services
United States Policy Toward Iraq. Hearings, House Committee on Armed Services,
September 10 - October 2, 2002. v, 412 pp. David A. Kay and Richard O. Spertzel on WMDs,
especially biological (pp. 3-51, 62-73); Donald H. Rumsfeld and CJCS General Richard B. Myers on overall
situation (pp. 77-131, 142-175); Gary Milhollin and Khidir Hamza on WMDs, especially nuclear
(pp. 180-214, 224-233, 241-283); Richard N. Perle and General Wesley Clarke (Ret.) on general policy issues
(pp. 287-324); Mikhail Margelov, Chairman, International Affairs Committee, Russian Federation
Council; Eliot A. Cohen; and Michael E. O’Hanlon on general policy issues (pp. 343-379, 390-412).
Operation Iraqi Freedom: Operations and Reconstruction. Hearings, House Committee on Armed Services,
April 4, July 10, September 25, October 2, 8, 21, and 29, 2003. vii, 670 pp.
House Committee on the Budget (GPO
Access)
Department
of State Budget Priorities for Fiscal Year 2004. Hearing, February 13, 2003. iii, 62 pp. Secretary of State Colin Powell
optimistic about having a functioning bureaucracy in Iraq, that would be able to continue functioning under American
supervision if the U.S. occupied Iraq. But he made it clear there would be an American occupation authority; "certainly the military
commander who goes in to remove the leadership assumes responsibility for being in charge of the country for some period of
time" (p. 32).
Department
of Defense Budget Priorities for Fiscal Year 2004. Hearing, February 27, 2003. iii, 68 pp. Deputy
Secretary of Defense Paul D. Wolfowitz said that nothing was certain (indeed he was remarkably vague about
U.S. planning for the aftermath of the Iraq War), but he was highly optimistic about the postwar situation.
House Commitee on Government Reform
Conflict
with Iraq: An Israeli Perspective. Hearing, House Committee on Government Reform, September 12,
2002. iii, 73 pp. Former prime minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu.
House Commitee on International Relations
U.S. Policy Toward
Iraq. Hearing, Subcommitee on the Middle East and South Asia,
House Committee on International Relations, October 4, 2001. iii, 66 pp.
U.S. Policy Toward Iraq. Hearing, House Committee on International Relations,
September 19, 2002. iii, 55 pp.
U.S. Policy Toward Iraq. Hearing, House Committee on International Relations,
September 19, 2002. iii, 60 pp.
Authorization for use of
military force against Iraq. Markup before the Committee on International Relations,
House of Representatives, on H.J. Res. 114, October 2 and October 3, 2002. iii, 197 pp.
Russia's Policies toward the
Axis of Evil: Money and Geopolitics in Iraq and Iran. Hearing, House Committee on International
Relations, February 26, 2003. Serial No. 108-6. iii, 70 pp.
United States
Policy Toward Iraq. Hearing, House Committee on International Relations,
May 15, 2003. iii, 76 pp. Douglas J. Feith, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy; Alan P. Larson,
Department of State; Wendy J. Chamberlin, AID.
Human Rights Violations under
Saddam Hussein: Victims Speak Out. Hearing, November 20, 2003, Subcommittee
on the Middle East and Central Asia,
House Committee on International Relations. iii, 45 pp. Serial No. 108-64.
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.
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.
Senate Committee on Appropriations
Making
supplemental appropriations to support Department of Defense operations in Iraq, Department of Homeland Security,
and related efforts for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2003. Report, Senate Committee on
Appropriations, April 1, 2003. 53 pp. On March 24, President Bush had asked for $74,725,028,000 in supplementary
funds; the committee recommended $76,711,609.000, of which $62,559,000,000 was for military operations in Iraq
(p. 3; a slightly lower figure is implied on p. 7).
Senate Committee on Armed Services
U.S.
Policy on Iraq. Hearing, Senate Committee on Armed Services, September 19, 23, 25,
2002. iii, 216 pp. Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secreatary of Defense; General Richard B. Myers, CJCS; John M.
Shalikashvili, former CJCS; Wesley K. Clark, former Supreme Allied Commander, Europe; Joseph P. Hoar,
former Commander, CENTCOM; Thomas G. McInerney, former Assistant Vice Chief of Staff, USAF; Samuel R. Berger,
former National Security Advisor to President Clinton; James R. Schlesinger, former Secretary of Defense.
Department of Defense Authorization for Appropriations for FY2004. Hearings, Senate Committee on
Armed Services, February 13, 25; March 6, 13, 18, 20; April 8, 2003.
Part
1. iv, 807 pp.
Part
6, Personnel. iv, 332 pp.
Military
Implications of NATO Enlargement and Post-Conflict Iraq. Hearing, Senate Committee on
Armed Services, April 10, 2003. iii, 71 pp. Paul D. Wolfowitz, General Peter Pace, James L. Jones.
"Lessons
learned" during Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan and Operation Iraqi Freedom,
and ongoing operations in the United States Central Command Region. Hearing, Senate Committee on
Armed Services, July 9, 2003. iii, 96 pp. Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld, and CENTCOM Commander
General Tommy R. Franks.
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
The International
Campaign Against Terrorism. Hearings, Senate
Committee on Foreign Relations, July 31 and August 1, 2002. iv, 275 pp. Secretary of State Colin Powell. Not a lot of discussion
of Iraq, and what there was, was not very dramatic. Powell did not indicate there was evidence linking Iraq to 9/11, and
his discussion of Irap policy focussed much more on UN sanctions than on regime change.
Hearings to Examine
Threats, Responses, and Regional Considerations Surrounding Iraq. Senate
Committee on Foreign Relations, October 25, 2001. iv, 275 pp. A lot of witnesses, including
Richard Butler, Charles Duelfer, General Joseph P. Hoar, USMC (Ret.), Phebe Marr, and Caspar Weinberger.
What's Next in the
War on Terrorism?. Hearing, Senate
Committee on Foreign Relations, February 7, 2002. iii, 45 pp. William Kristol, saying he believed what was next was
eliminating the danger of Iraq; Samuel R. Berger; General George A. Joulwan, USA (ret.).
Next
Steps in Iraq. Hearings, Senate
Committee on Foreign Relations, September 25-26, 2002. iii, 158 pp. A lot of witnesses, including Henry
Kissinger and Secretary of State Colin Powell.
The
Future of Iraq. Hearing, Senate
Committee on Foreign Relations, February 11, 2003. iii, 94 pp. Prof. Anthony H. Cordesman; Col. Scott R. Feil,
USA (Ret.); Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Douglas J. Feith; Under Secretary of State for Political
Affairs Marc I. Grossman; Gen. Anthony C. Zinni, USMC (Ret.), former commander of CENTCOM.
American Public
Diplomacy and Islam. Hearing, Senate
Committee on Foreign Relations, February 27, 2003. iii, 93 pp.
Iraq:
Reconstruction. Hearing, Senate
Committee on Foreign Relations, March 11, 2003. iii, 82 pp. Gordon Adams; Phebe Marr; Sandra Mitchell
(International Rescue Committee); Bernice Romero (Oxfam America); Eric P. Schwartz (Council on Foriegn
Relations).
Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs
United
States Policy in Iraq: Next Steps. Hearing, Subcommittee on International Security, Proliferation
and Federal Services, Senate
Committee on Governmental Affairs, March 1, 2002. iii, 72 pp. Robert J. Einhorn, David A. Kay, and
Richard O. Spertzel. [Also
online at the GPO.]
Prosecuting
Iraqi war crimes: A consideration of the different forum options. Hearing, Senate
Committee on Governmental Affairs, April 10, 2003. iii, 73 pp.
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
Current
and Projected National Security Threats to the United States. Hearing, Senate Select Committee on
Intelligence, February 11, 2003. iii, 239 pp. FBI Director Robert S. Mueller, III; DCI George Tenet;
DIA Director Vice Admiral Lowell E. Jacoby; INR head Carl W. Ford, Jr.
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.
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:
US-UK Communications on Iraq, Summer 2002.
The Future of Iraq Project.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
David A. Marker,
"Methodological Review of 'Mortality After the
2003 Invasion of Iraq: A Cross-Sectional Cluster Sample Survey'". Public Opinion Quarterly, 72:2 (Summer 2008), pp. 345-363.
Dr. Burnham refused to cooperate with an investigation of his research by the American Association of
Public Opinion Research; the association censured him for this in February 2009.
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.
Anthony Andrews and Moshe Schwartz,
Department of Defense Fuel Costs in
Iraq. RS22923.pdf. July 23, 2008. 6 pp.
Amy Belasco,
The Cost of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Other
Global War on Terror Operations Since 9/11. RL33110. May 15, 2009. 64 pp.
Amy Belasco,
Troop Levels in the Afghan and Iraq Wars,
FY2001-FY2012: Cost and Other Potential Issues. R40682. July 2, 2009. 67 pp.
Catherine Dale,
Operation Iraqi Freedom: Strategies, Approaches, Results,
and Issues for Congress. RL34387. April 2, 2009. 142 pp.
Jennifer K. Elsea, Michael John Garcia, and Thomas J. Nicola,
Congressional Authority
to Limit U.S. Military Operations in Iraq. RL33837. February 27, 2008. 49 pp.
Hanna Fischer,
Iraqi Civilian, Police, and Security Forces
Casualty Estimates. RS22441. September 14, 2006. 5 pp.
Hanna Fischer,
Iraqi Civilian Deaths Casualty Estimates. RS22537.
September 5, 2007. 6 pp.
Hanna Fischer,
Iraqi Civilian Deaths Casualty Estimates. RS22537. August 27, 2008. 5 pp.
Hanna Fischer,
United States Military Casualty Statistics:
Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom. RS22452. March 25, 2009. 5 pp. Casualties
broken down by category (gender, ethnicity, cause,...) rather than by date.
Hanna Fischer,
Iraqi Civilian, Police, and Security Forces
Casualty Statistics. R40824. September 17, 2009. 7 pp.
Hanna Fischer, Kim Klarman, and Mari-Jana “M-J” Oboroceanu,
American War and Military Operations Casualties:
Lists and Statistics. RL32492. May 14, 2008. 25 pp. Goes all the way back to the Revolutionary War (although I believe
the Revolutionary War figures are obsolete ones, which have been contradicted by recent scholarship), but has much more detail about
casualties in recent conflicts.
Charles A. Henning,
U.S. Military Stop Loss Program: Key
Questions and Answers. RL32492. July 10, 2009. 16 pp.
R. Chuck Mason,
Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA):
What Is It, and How Has It Been Utilized? RL34531. June 18, 2009. 30 pp.
R. Chuck Mason,
U.S.-Iraq Withdrawal/Status of Forces
Agreement: Issues for Congressional Oversight. R40011. July 13, 2009. 11 pp.
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.
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 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
Resetting and Reconstituting the Forces. Hearing, Subcommittee on Readiness, House Committee on
Armed Services, October 21, 2003. iv, 113 pp.
Operations and Reconstruction Efforts in Iraq. Hearings, House Committee on Armed Services,
January 28, April 21, May 7 and 21, June 16, 17, 22, July 7, September 8 and 9, 2004. ix, 1057 pp.
Current operations and the political transition in Iraq. Hearing, House Committee on Armed Services,
March 17, 2005. iii, 167 pp.
Iraq's Past, Present and Future. Hearing, House Committee on Armed Services,
April 6, 2005. iii, 71 pp.
Progress of the Iraqi Security Forces. Hearing, House Committee on Armed Services,
June 23, 2005. iii, 73 pp.
Financing of the Iraqi Insurgency. Joint hearing by subcommittees of the House Committee on
Armed Services and the House Committee on Financial Services, July 28, 2005. 72 pp.
Operations in Iraq. Hearing, House Committee on Armed Services,
September 29, 2005. iii, 52 pp.
Update
on the Use of Combat Helmets, Vehicle Armor and Body Armor by Ground Forces in Operation Iraqi Freedom and
Operation Enduring Freedom. Hearing, Subcommittee on Tactical Air and
Land Forces, House Committee on Armed Services, June 15, 2006. iii, 116 pp.
The Current Situation and Military Operations in Iraq. Hearing, House Committee on Armed Services,
November 15, 2006. iii, 66 pp.
Alternative
Perspective on the President's Strategy for Iraq. Hearing, House Committee on Armed Services,
January 17, 2007. iii, 81 pp. Witnesses were Dr. Frederick W. Kagan, Dr. Lawrence J. Korb, and Dr. William J. Perry.
Approaches to
Audit of Reconstruction and Support Activities in Iraq. Hearing, House Committee on Armed Services,
January 18, 2007. iii, 98 pp. Witnesses were Stuart W. Bowen, Jr.; Thomas F. Gimble; Howard J. Krongard; and David M. Walker.
Army force protection
equipment for Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom. Hearing, Air and Land Forces Subcommittee,
House Committee on Armed Services, January 18, 2007. iv, 98 pp.
Implications of Iraq
policy on total force readiness. Hearing, House Committee on Armed Services,
January 23, 2007. iii, 101 pp. H.A.S.C. No. 110-7. Witnesses included General Peter J. Schoomaker, Chief of Staff, U.S. Army, and
General James T. Conway, Commandant, U.S. Marine Corps.
Examination of the
force requirements determination process. Hearing, Military Personnel Subcommittee,
House Committee on Armed Services, January 30, 2007. iii, 98 pp. H.A.S.C. No. 110-9.
Current manning,
equipping and readiness challenges facing Special Operations forces. Hearing, Terrorism, Unconventional Threats and
Capabilities Subcommittee, House Committee on Armed Services, January 31, 2007. iii, 136 pp. H.A.S.C. No. 110-12.
Hearing on National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 and oversight of previously authorized programs
Full committee hearing
on budget request from the Department of Defense. Hearing, House Committee on Armed Services, February 7, 2007. iv,
135 pp. H.A.S.C. No. 110-13.
Full committee hearing
on budget request from the Department of the Army. Hearing, House Committee on Armed Services, February 14, 2007. iii,
78 pp. H.A.S.C. No. 110-18.
Military Personnel
Subcommittee hearing on budget request on overview of recruiting and retention. Hearing, February 15, 2007.
iii, 149 pp. H.A.S.C. No. 110-20.
Full committee hearing on
budget request from the Department of the Air Force. Hearing, February 28, 2007.
iii, 143 pp. H.A.S.C. No. 110-21. Not a lot about Iraq, but some.
Full committee hearing on
budget request from the Department of the Navy. Hearing, March 1, 2007.
iii, 167 pp. H.A.S.C. No. 110-23. Includes the Marine Corps.
Military Personnel
Subcommittee hearing on views of military advocacy and beneficiary groups. Hearings, March 1, 15, 2007.
iv, 220 pp. H.A.S.C. No. 110-24.
Readiness Subcommittee
hearing on budget request on adequacy to meet readiness needs. Hearing, March 13, 2007.
iii, 104 pp. H.A.S.C. No. 110-33.
Readiness Subcommittee
hearing on budget request on readiness of the Army and Air National Guard. Hearing, March 27, 2007.
iii, 51 pp. H.A.S.C. No. 110-47.
Full committee hearing on
budget request from the U.S. Central Command. Hearing, April 18, 2007.
iii, 98 pp. H.A.S.C. No. 110-53.
Air and Land Forces
Subcommittee hearing on budget request on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR)
capabilities. Hearing, April 19, 2007. iv, 155 pp. H.A.S.C. No. 110-54.
Challenges for the
Special Operations Command (SOCOM) posed by the global terrorist threat. Hearing, Terrorism, Unconventional Threats and
Capabilities Subcommittee, House Committee on Armed Services, February 14, 2007. iii, 136 pp. H.A.S.C. No. 110-19. The witnesses
were private-sector scholars, and tended to argue that the U.S. war in Iraq had not helped in the global struggle agaist Al Qaeda.
Second report to Congress
by the Commission on the National Guard and Reserves. Hearing, House Committee on Armed Services,
March 23, 2007. iii, 129 pp. H.A.S.C. No. 110-43.
Outside Perspectives
on Transitioning Security to the Iraqi Security Forces. Hearing, Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee,
House Committee on Armed Services, March 28, 2007. iii, 147 pp. Anthony H. Cordesman, Frederick W. Kagan, Olga Oliker, and Robert M. Perito.
Training of Iraqi
security forces (ISF) and employment of transition teams. Hearing, Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee,
House Committee on Armed Services, May 22, 2007. iii, 43 pp.
Develoment of the
Iraqi Police Service. Hearing, Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee,
House Committee on Armed Services, May 24, 2007. iii, 75 pp.
Department of Defense
body armor programs . Hearing, House Committee on Armed Services,
June 6, 2007. iv, 225 pp. H.A.S.C. No. 110-58.
The Development of
the Iraqi Security Forces. Hearing, Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee,
House Committee on Armed Services, June 12, 2007. iii, 67 pp. Lt. Gen. Martin Dempsey, Commander, Multi-National Security Transition
Command-Iraq, U.S. Army; Mark Kimmitt, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs.
A Third Way: Alternatives for Iraq's Future. Hearings, Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, House Committee
on Armed Services.
Part 1. Hearing
July 12, 2007. iii, 80 pp. Max Boot, General Wesley K. Clark (ret.), and Dr. Muqtedar Khan.
Part 2. Hearing
July 18, 2007. iii, 50 pp. Dr. Daniel L. Byman of Georgetown University and the Brookings Institution.
Part 3. Hearing
July 25, 2007. iii, 80 pp.
Part 4. Hearing
July 31, 2007. iii, 107 pp. Most of the witnesses were retired generals.
Iraq: Trends and
Recent Security Developments. Hearing, House Committee on Armed Services,
July 18, 2007. iii, 95 pp. Witnesses were Dr. Frederick W. Kagan, Dr. Jessica T. Mathews, and Dr. William J. Perry.
Mine Resistant
Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicle program . Joint hearing, Seapower and Expeditionary Forces Subcommittee and
Air and Land Forces Subcommittee, House Committee on Armed Services, July 19, 2007. iv, 93 pp.
The Use of In Lieu of,
Ad Hoc and Augmentee Forces in Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom . Hearing, Readiness Subcommittee,
House Committee on Armed Services, July 31, 2007. iii, 88 pp. Deals with the use of Air Force and Navy personnel in what would
normally be Army missions.
The role of the
Department of Defense in Provincial Reconstruction Teams . Hearing, Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee,
House Committee on Armed Services, September 5, 2007. iii, 70 pp.
Comptroller General's
Assessment of the Iraqi Government's Record of Performance. Hearing, House Committee on Armed Services, September 5,
2007. iii, 68 pp. David M. Walker, Comptroller General, U.S. Government Accountability Office.
Report of the
Independent Commission on the Security Forces of Iraq. Hearing, House Committee on Armed Services, September 6,
2007. iii, 61 pp. Witnesses were General James Jones, USMC (ret.), Chairman of the Independent Commission; other members of the
Independent Commission; and R.D. McCausland, Assistant Chief Constable, Urban Region, Belfast, Ireland.
The Status of the
War and Political Developments in Iraq. Joint hearing, House Committees on Armed Services and Foreign Affairs,
September 10, 2007. vi, 216 pp. H.A.S.C. No. 110-89. Serial No. 110-150. Ambassador Ryan Crocker and General David Patraeus.
The role of the
Department of Defense in provincial reconstruction teams in Afghanistan and Iraq. Hearing, Oversight and Investigations
Subcommittee, House Committee on Armed Services, October 4, 2007. iii, 74 pp. Col. Ralph O. Baker, Deputy Director,
Politico-Military Affairs (Middle East), U.S. Army; Brig. Gen. Mark T. Kimmitt (Ret.), Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense
(Middle East); et al.
Measuring and
increasing the effectiveness of provincial reconstruction teams. Hearing, Oversight and Investigations
Subcommittee, House Committee on Armed Services, October 18, 2007. iii, 59 pp. Stuart W. Bowen, Jr. (SIGIR), and
Robert M. Perito (U.S. Institute for Peace).
Stabilization and
Reconstruction Operations: Learning from the Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) Experience. Hearing, Oversight and Investigations
Subcommittee, House Committee on Armed Services, October 30, 2007. iii, 105 pp. Civilian officials from GAO, State, and Defense.
Current Status of the
Joint Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicle program . Joint hearing, Seapower and Expeditionary Forces Subcommittee and
Air and Land Forces Subcommittee, House Committee on Armed Services, November 8, 2007. iv, 129 pp.
Provincial
reconstruction teams: historical and current perspectives on doctrine and strategy. Hearing, Oversight and Investigations
Subcommittee, House Committee on Armed Services, December 5, 2007. iii, 81 pp.
Stand Up and Be
Counted: The Continuing Challenge of Building the Iraqi Security Forces. Report, Subcommittee on
Oversight and Investigations, House Committee on Armed Services, 2007. 205 pp.
A Continuing Dialogue:
Post-Surge Alternatives for Iraq (Part 1 and 2). Hearings, House Committee on Armed Services, January 16 and 23, 2008. iv,
137 pp. The witnesses included retired senior officers, but not current senior military officers or officials.
Status of Efforts to Develop
Iraqi Security Forces. Hearing, House Committee on Armed Services, January 17, 2008. iii, 51 pp. Lt. Gen. James Dubik,
Commander, Multi-National Security Transition Command, Iraq, and Mark Kimmitt, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for
Middle Eastern Affairs.
Interagency reform:
can the Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) case study illuminate the future of reconstruction and stabilization
operations. Hearing, Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, House Committee on Armed Services, January 29, 2008. iii, 104 pp.
Hearing on National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2009 and oversight of previously authorized programs
Full committee hearing on
budget request from the Department of Defense. February 5, 2008. iii, 110 pp.
Terrorism,
Unconventional Threats, and Capabilities Subcommittee hearing on budget request on the role of social and behavioral sciences in
national security, meeting jointly with Committee on Science and Technology, Subcommittee on Research and Science
Education. April 24, 2008. iv, 95 pp.
. . .
Provincial Reconstruction
Teams: a case for interagency national security reform?. Hearing, Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee,
House Committee on Armed Services, February 14, 2008. iii, 60 pp.
Irregular warfare and
stability operations: approaches to interagency integration. Joint hearing, Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee and
Terrorism and Unconventional Threats and Capabilities Subcommittee, House Committee on Armed Services, February 26, 2008. iv, 105 pp.
House Resolution 834:
ground force readiness shortfalls. Joint hearing, Readiness Subcommittee and Air and Land Forces Subcommittee,
House Committee on Armed Services, April 16, 2008. iii, 100 pp.
Agency stovepipes
vs strategic agility: lessons we need to learn from provincial reconstruction teams in Iraq and Afghanistan. Report,
Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee,
House Committee on Armed Services, April 2008. 80 pp.
House Committee on the Budget
Department
of Defense Long-Term Budget Issues. Hearing, October 16, 2003. iii, 75 pp. Dov S. Zakheim,
Under Secretary of Defense, Comptroller, U.S. Department of Defense; Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Director,
Congressional Budget Office.
Department
of Defense Budget Priorities Fiscal Year 2007. Hearing, March 1, 2006. iii, 28 pp. Notable for
the favorable picture of the Iraqi security situation presented by Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Admiral Edmund P. Giambastiani (pp. 9-10).
Budgeting
for War Costs. Hearing, January 18, 2007,
House Committee on the Budget. iii, 78 pp. Serial No. 110-1.
The
Costs of Military Operations and Reconstruction in Iraq and Afghanistan. Hearing, House Committee on the Budget,
July 31, 2007. Serial No. 110-17. iii, 100 pp. Witnesses included Deputy Secretary of Defense Gordon England; Stuart W. Bowen, Jr.;
Ambassador and Senior Transition Advisor, U.S. Department of State, Joseph Saloom; John A Gastright, Jr.
The
Growing Budgetary Costs of the Iraq War. Hearing, House Committee on the Budget, October 24, 2007. Serial No. 110-22. iii, 89 pp.
Iraq's
Budget Surplus. Hearing, House Committee on the Budget, September 16, 2008. Serial No. 110-40. iii, 82 pp.
Long-Term Sustainability
of Current Defense Plans. Hearing, House Committee on the Budget, February 4, 2009. Serial No. 111-2. iii, 75 pp.
House Commitee on Government Reform/House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
Winning
the peace: Coalition Efforts to Restore Iraq. Hearing before the Committee on
Government Reform, House of Representatives, October 8, 2003. iii, 198 pp. Les Brownlee, Acting Secretary of the
Army; Philo Dibble, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, Near Eastern Affairs; Tom Korologos,
senior advisor to Ambassador L. Paul Bremer III, administrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority; Maj. Gen.
Carl Strock, USA, director of operations and infrastructure, CPA; Bernie Kerik, former director of the interior,
CPA. Also non-government witnesses Alaa H. Haidari, Beate Sirota Gordon, and Lamya Alarif.
Iraq:
Winning hearts and minds. Hearing before the Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats,
and International Relations of the Committee on Government Reform, House of Representatives, June 15,
2004. iii, 147 pp. Serial No. 108-233. Rend al-Rahim, Iraqi representative to the United States; Ronald L.
Schlicher, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, Near Eastern Affairs/Iraq; Peter Rodman, Assistant Secretary
of Defense for International Security Affairs; Lt. Gen. Walter L. Sharp, Director for Strategic Plans and
Policy, Joint Chiefs of Staff; Gordon West, AID; and other.
Building
Iraqi Security Forces. Hearing before the Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats,
and International Relations of the Committee on Government Reform, House of Representatives, March 14,
2005. iii, 179 pp.
The
Development Fund for Iraq: U.S. Management of Iraqi Oil Proceeds and Compliance with U.N. Security Council
Resolution 1483. Hearing before the Subcommittee on
National Security, Emerging Threats,
and International Relations of the Committee on Government Reform, House of Representatives, June 21,
2005. iv, 231 pp.
Iraq:
Perceptions, Realities and Cost to
Complete. Hearing before the Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats,
and International Relations of the Committee on Government Reform, House of Representatives, October 18,
2005. iii, 195 pp.
A
New Assessment of Iraq. Hearing before the Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats,
and International Relations of the Committee on Government Reform, House of Representatives, April 25,
2006. iii, 95 pp. David M. Walker, Comptroller General, U.S. Government Accountability Office.
The
Evolving National Strategy for Victory in
Iraq. Hearing before the Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats,
and International Relations of the Committee on Government Reform, House of Representatives, July 11,
2006. iii, 196 pp. Ambassador James Jeffrey, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Middle
East; Mary Beth Long, Department of Defense; BG Michael Jones, Deputy Director for Political Military
Affairs, Joint Chiefs of Staff; Kenneth Pollack; Laith Kubba; Anthony Cordesman; Kenneth
Katzman; David M. Walker, Comptroller General, U.S. Government Accountability Office.
Iraq:
Democracy or Civil War?. Hearing before the Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats,
and International Relations, House Committee on Government Reform, September 11, 2006. iii, 156 pp.
The
Impact of CPA Decisionmaking on Iraq Reconstruction. Hearing, House Committee on
Oversight and Government Reform, February 6, 2007. iii, 221 pp.
Iraq Reconstruction:
an Overview. Hearing, House Committee on
Oversight and Government Reform, February 15, 2007. iii, 221 pp. Serial No. 110-27. David Walker, Comptroller General of the
United States; Stuart Bowen, Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction; William H. Reed, Director, Defense Contract
Audit Agency.
Iraq:
IEDs and Munitions, Are They Secured? Hearing, Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs,
House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, March 22, 2007. iii, 54 pp.
Assessing the
State of Iraqi Corruption Hearing, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, October 4, 2007. iii, 142 pp. Witnesses
included: Larry Butler, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near East Affairs; David Walker, Comptroller General of the
United States; Judge Radhi Hamza Al-Radhi, Commissioner of Public Integrity in Iraq; Stuart Bowen, Special Inspector General
for Iraq Reconstruction.
Accountability
Lapses in Multiple Funds for Iraq. Hearing, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform,
May 22, 2008. Serial No. 110-131. iii, 74 pp.
House Commitee on International Relations / House Committee on Foreign Affairs
U.S. Policy Toward
Iraq. Hearing, September 25, 2003,
House Committee on International Relations. iii, 51 pp. Serial No. 108-60. L. Paul Bremer III, head of the
Coalition Provisional Authority.
United States and the Iraqi
Marshlands: An Environmental Response. Hearing, February 24, 2004, Subcommittee
on the Middle East and Central Asia,
House Committee on International Relations. iii, 55 pp. Serial No. 108-74.
The Imminent Transfer of
Sovereignty in Iraq. Hearing, May 13, 2004,
House Committee on International Relations. iii, 66 pp. Serial No. 108-130. Marc Grossman, Under Secretary of
State for Political Affairs; Peter W. Rodman, Assistant secretary of Defense for International Security
Affairs; Lt. Gen. Walter L. Sharp, USA, Director for Strategic Plans and Policy, Joint Staff.
Iraq's Transition to
Democracy. Hearing, June 29, 2005, Subcommittee
on the Middle East and Central Asia,
House Committee on International Relations. iii, 52 pp. Serial No. 109-118. Richard Jones, Coordinator for
Iraq, Department of State.
Iraq: Update on U.S.
Policy. Hearing, April 26, 2006,
House Committee on International Relations. iii, 71 pp. Serial No. 109-223. James Jeffrey, Coordinator for
Iraq, Department of State; Peter W. Rodman, Assistant secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs.
Review of Iraq
Reconstruction. Hearing, June 8, 2006,
House Committee on International Relations. iii, 66 pp. Serial No. 109-213. James Jeffrey, Coordinator for
Iraq, Department of State; Stuart R. Bowen, Jr., Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction; James
R. Kunder, Agency for International Development.
Briefing on Iraq and hearing
on the international relations budget for fiscal year 2008. Hearings, January 11 and February 7, 2007,
House Committee on Foreign Affairs. iii, 128 pp. Serial No. 110-59. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
Iraq. Briefings and hearing before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. iv, 136 pp. Serial No. 110-17.
pp. i-iv, 1-41: January 17, 2007,
"Iraq" (Madeleine Albright);
pp. i-iv, 43-77: January 19, 2007, "The
Baker-Hamilton Commisssion" (Lee Hamilton);
pp. i-iv, 79-136: February 28, 2007, "Iraq and U.S. Foreign
Policy" (Richard C. Holbrooke, Frederick W. Kagan)
Proposed legislation on
Iraq. Hearing, March 20, 2007,
House Committee on Foreign Affairs. iv, 70 pp. Serial No. 110-57.
Iraqi volunteers, Iraqi refugees:
What is America's obligation?. Hearing, March 26, 2007, Subcommittee
on the Middle East and South Asia,
House Committee on Foreign Affairs. iii, 67 pp. Serial No. 110-46.
George W. Bush,
Veto
Message on H.R. 1591.
Message from the President of the United States transmitting notification of his veto of H.R. 1591,
the U.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans' Care, Katrina Recovery, and Iraq Accountability Appropriations Act,
2007. May 2, 2007. 94 pp. The actual veto message is p. 1; the remainder is the text of the bill that was vetoed.
Can Iraq pay for its own
reconstruction?. Joint hearing, March 27, 2007, Subcommittee
on International Organizations, Human Rights, and Oversight and Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia,
House Committee on Foreign Affairs. v, 56 pp. Serial No. 110-14. David Satterfield and Stuart R. Bowen, Jr.
Economic and Military Support for the
U.S. Efforts in Iraq: The Coalition of the Willing, Then and Now. Hearing, May 9, 2007, Subcommittee
on International Organizations, Human Rights, and Oversight,
House Committee on Foreign Affairs. iii, 76 pp. Serial No. 110-38.
Iraq: Is Reconstruction
Failing?. Hearing, May 22, 2007,
House Committee on Foreign Affairs. iii, 60 pp. Serial No. 110-75. Stuart W. Bowen, Jr., J.D., Special
Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction.
Iraq: Is the Escalation
Working?. Hearing, June 27, 2007,
House Committee on Foreign Affairs. iii, 88 pp. Serial No. 110-87. Anthony H. Cordesman, Maj. Gen. John
Batiste (Ret.), and Frederick W. Kagan.
House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
Assessing the Fight against
Al Qaeda. Hearing, Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, April 9, 2008. ii, 124 pp. Peter Bergen, Robert Grenier,
and Steven Emerson.
Initial
Benchmark Assessment Report. Report submitted to the Congress by the White House, July 12, 2007,
on progress in Iraq. 25 pp.
Gerald L. Hunt,
The Kill Zone: Day to Day Convoys in Iraq. AuthorHouse, 2007. 88 pp.
International Crisis Group,
Middle East Briefings/Reports
No. 6: Baghdad:
A Race Against the Clock. 17 pp. plus appendix. 11 June 2003.
No. 7: Governing Iraq. 25 August 2003.
No. 30:
Reconstructing
Iraq. 2 September 2004.
No. 38: Iran
in Iraq: How Much Influence? 21 March 2005.
No. 50: In Their Own Words: Reading
the Iraqi Insurgency 15 February 2006.
No. 55: Iraq’s Muqtada Al-Sadr:
Spoiler or Stabiliser? 11 July 2006.
No. 56: Iraq and the Kurds:
The Brewing Battle over Kirkuk 18 July 2006.
No. 60: After Baker-Hamilton:
What to Do in Iraq 19 December 2006.
No. 64: Iraq and the Kurds:
Resolving the Kirkuk Crisis 19 April 2007.
No. 67: Where
Is Iraq Heading? Lessons from Basra 25 June 2007. Very pessimistic.
No. 70: Shiite Politics in Iraq:
The Role of the Supreme Council 15 November 2007.
No. 72: Iraq's
Civil War, the Sadrists and the Surge 7 February 2008.
No. 74: Iraq
After the Surge I: The New Sunni Landscape. 30 April 2008. iv, 34 pp.
No. 75: Iraq
After the Surge II: The Need for a New Political Strategy. 30 April 2008. iv, 36 pp. The two parts of
this report say the U.S.
military has become far more sophisticated in its approach in Iraq, and has made major tactical gains,
but that there has been no significant progress in creating an effective Iraqi government.
No. 77: Failed
Responsibility: Iraqi Refugees in Syria, Jordan and Lebanon. 10 July 2008. iii, 42 pp.
No. 80: Oil
for Soil: Toward a Grand Bargain on Iraq and the Kurds. 28 October 2008. iii, 43 pp.
No. 81: Turkey
and Iraqi Kurds: Conflict or Cooperation?. 13 November 2008. pp.
No. 82: Iraq's
Provincial Elections: The Stakes. 27 January 2009. 40 pp. The prospects--contenders and issues--for
the elections of 31 January 2009.
Iraq Legal Development Project, American Bar Association.
Kelly Fleck, Sawsan Gharaibeh, Aline Matta, and Yasmine Rassam,
The Status of
Women in Iraq: An Assessment of Iraq’s De Jure and De Facto Compliance with International
Legal Standards. July 2005. viii, 105 pp.
Aline Matta, with Andreea Vesa and Katrina Emmons,
The Status of
Women in Iraq: Update to the Assessment of Iraq’s De Jure and De Facto Compliance with International
Legal Standards. December 2006. x, 184 pp.
Judicial Reform Index for
Iraq. July 2006. iv, 45 pp.
Judicial Reform Index for
Iraq: Kurdistan Supplement. October 2006. iv, 31 pp.
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
Transforming
Iraq's Economy. Hearing, Joint Economic Committee, June 11, 2003. iii, 182
pp. S.Hrg. 108-220. Assorted non-government witnesses.
War at Any Cost?
The Total Economic Costs of the War Beyond the Federal Budget. Hearing, Joint Economic Committee, February 28, 2008. iii, 280
pp. S.Hrg. 110-703. Chairman Schumer listed the witnesses as: "Professor Joseph
Stiglitz, the Nobel Laureate economist now at Columbia; Robert
Hormats, a National Security Council Advisor under both Democratic and Republican Presidents, and now co-chairman of Goldman
Sachs; Rand Beers, the president of the National Security Network and former NSC Advisor, who has written so many astute things
on national security, and Scott Wallsten, an economist and formerly of the American Enterprise Institute."
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").
Brigadier Nigel R.F. Aylwin-Foster, British Army,
"Changing the
Army for Counterinsurgency Operations" (pp. 2- )
Colonel James K. Greer,
"Operation
Knockout: Counterinsurgency in Iraq" (pp. 16- ). Diyala province, November
2005. Colonel Greer's optimism looks, in hindsight, just
a bit unrealistic.
Major General Eui-Don Hwang, Republic of Korea Army,
"Republic of
Korea Forces in Iraq: Peacekeeping and Reconstruction" (pp. 27- )
Lieutenant Colonel Robert Strzelecki, Polish Army,
"Lessons Learned:
Multinational Division Central-South" (pp. 32- )
March-April 2006 (vol. LXXXVI, no. 2)
Dale Andrade and Lieutenant Colonel James H. Willbanks,
"CORDS/Phoenix:
Counterinsurgency Lessons from Vietnam for the Future" (pp. 9-23)
Major Ross Coffey,
"Revisiting CORDS:
The Need for Unity of Effort to Secure Victory in Iraq" (pp. 24- )
Colonel Kevin C.M. Benson,
"OIF Phase IV:
A Planner’s Reply to Brigadier Aylwin-Foster" (pp. 61- ). Reply to the article in the
November-December 2005 issue, above.
Lieutenant Colonel Michael J. Dempsey, U.S. Army, and Major Geoffrey D. Keillor, U.S. Army,
"Latin American
Coalition Support: Lessons Learned in Iraq" (pp. 71- )
September-October 2006 (vol. LXXXVI, no. 5)
F.J. Bing West,
"American Military
Performance in Iraq" (pp. 2-7)
Lieutenant General John R. Vines,
"The XVIII Airborne Corps
on the Ground in Iraq" (pp. 38- )
Lieutenant Colonel Chris Gibson,
"Battlefield Victories
and Strategic Success: The Path Forward in Iraq" (pp. 47- )
Special Edition, October 2006 (includes reprints of some of the above)
Montgomery McFate and Andrea V. Jackson,
"The Object Beyond War: Counterinsurgency and the Four Tools of Political Competition." pp. 56-69.
David H. Petraeus,
"Learning Counterinsurgency: Observations from Soldiering in Iraq." pp. 45-55.
January-February 2007 (vol. LXXXVII, no. 1)
F.J. Bing West,
"Waiting for Godot
in Iraq" (pp. 2-11).
Captain Travis Patriquin,
"Using Occam's Razor
to Connect the Dots: The Ba'ath Party and the Insurgency in Tal Afar" (pp. 16-25)
Lt. Col. Ross A. Brown,
"Commander's
Assessment: South Baghdad" (pp. 27-34)
Sergeant Mounir Elkhamri,
"Dealing with
the Iraqi Populace: An Arab-American Soldier's Perspective" (pp. 110-113).
July-August 2007 (vol. LXXXVII, no. 4)
Paul Brinkley,
"A Cause for
Hope: Economic Revitalization in Iraq" (pp. 2-11). Brinkley is Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for
Business Transformation.
Houman A Sadri,
"Surrounded:
Seeing the World from IRAN's Point of View" (pp. 12-31).
Colonel Robert B. Brown,
"The Agile-Leader
Mind-Set: Leveraging the Power of Modularity in Iraq" (pp. 32-44). Col. Brown commanded the 1st Stryker
Brigade in Iraq from September 2004 to September 2005.
Sean McFate,
"The Art and Aggravation of
Vetting in Post-Conflict Environments" (pp. 79-87)
Major Mark P. Krieger Jr.,
"We the People Are
Not the Center of Gravity in an Insurgency" (pp. 96-100)
Majors Jarett Broemmel, Terry L. Clark, and Shannon Nielsen,
"The Surge Can
Succeed" (pp. 110-112)
Brigadier General Joseph Anderson and Colonel Gary Volesky,
"A Synchronized
Approach to Population Control" (pp. 101-103).
January-February 2008 (Vol. LXXXVIII, no. 1)
March-April 2008 (Vol. LXXXVIII, no. 2)
Major Neil Smith and Colonel Sean MacFarland,
"Anbar Awakens:
The Tipping Point" (pp. 41-52).
Dr. Cora Sol Goldstein,
"A Strategic Failure:
American Information Control Policy in Occupied Iraq" (pp. 58-65).
May-June 2008 (Vol. LXXXVIII, no. 3)
July-August 2008 (Vol. LXXXVIII, no. 4)
September-October 2008 (Vol. LXXXVIII, no. 5)
General David H. Patraeus,
"Multi-National Force-Iraq
Commander's Counterinsurgency Guidance" (pp. 2-4)
Scott Anderew Ewing,
"Discipline, Punishment, and
Counterinsurgency" (pp. 10-19). Argues that US officers in the habit of inflicting punishments on their own men, as a matter of
discipline, can fall into the habit of doing the same thing to civilians, counterproductively, in a counterinsurgency environment.
November-December 2008 (Vol. LXXXVIII, no. 6)
January-February 2009 (Vol. LXXXIX, no. 1)
Cori E. Dauber,
"The TRUTH is out there: Responding to
Insurgent Disinformation and Deception Operations" (pp. 13-24). Starts with the incident of 26 March 2006 in Sadr City, in which
Dauber says faked photos, giving the impression that what had actually been a battle against armed members of the Jaish al-Mahdi had
been a massacre of men praying in a mosque, were on the internet within an hour after US soldiers of the 10th Special Forces Group
left the scene of the incident. This startled the Americans, who had been accustomed to Sunni insurgents taking 24 to 48 hours to
get propaganda about incidents online.
Maj. Andrew W. Koloski and Lt. Col. John S. Kolasheski,
"Thickening the Lines:
Sons of Iraq, A Combat Multiplier" (pp. 41-53). The 3-1 Cavalry deployed to Iraq in March 2007 as part of the 3d Heavy Brigade
Combat Team, 3d Infantry Division.
March-April 2009 (Vol. LXXXIX, no. 2)
Bing West,
"Counterinsurgency
Lessons from Iraq" (pp. 2-12).
Captain Chad M. Pillai, U.S. Army,
"Tal Afar and
Ar Ramadi: Grass Roots Reconstruction" (pp. 33-39).
Lisa A. Verdon,
"From Peddlars to Sheiks:
A Contracting Case Study in Southern Baghdad" (pp. 50-56).
Lt. Col. Dale Kuehl,
"Testing Galula
in Ameriyah: The People are the Key" (pp. 72-80). Kuehl commanded the 1-5 Cavalry in Baghdad, including Ameriyah
neighborhood, October 2006 to January 2008. He endorses the ideas of the Army's new Counterinsurgency field manual
(see above) and of David Galula (see above).
Lt. Col. James A. Crider,
"A View from
Inside the Surge" (pp. 81-88). Crider commanded the 1-4 Cavalry in Baghdad (Doura neighborhood, in particular)
2007-8. He says American operations there validated David Galula's ideas (see above).
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
Fiscal
Year 2004 supplemental request for reconstruction of Iraq and Afghanistan. Hearings, Senate Committee on
Appropriations, September 22, 24, 25, 2003. v, 224 pp. CPA head L. Paul Bremer; Secretary of Defense Donald
H. Rumsfeld; CJCS General Richard Myers; CENTCOM commander General John F. Abizaid; and others.
Emergency
supplemental appropriations for Iraq and Afghanistan security and reconstruction, 2004. Report, Senate Committee on
Appropriations, October 2, 2003. 27 pp. On September 17, President Bush requested $87,039,804,000 in
supplementary appropriations. After the hearings of September 22-25 (above), the committee recommended
$87,004,004,000, of which $66,560,004,000 was to prosecute the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, and $21,444,000,000
was to help secure the transition to democracy in those countries (p. 3). [Note that there seems to be
a $1 billion error in the arithmetic.]
Contingent
Emergency reserve fund request for Iraq and Afghanistan for fiscal year 2005. Hearing before a
subcommittee of the Senate Committee on
Appropriations, June 2, 2004. iii, 36 pp.
Examining the
Effectiveness of U.S. Efforts to Combat Waste, Fraud, Abuse, and Corruption in Iraq. Hearings, Senate Committee on
Appropriations, March 11 and July 23, 2008. v, 277 pp. David M. Walker, Comptroller General, Government Accountability
Office; Claude M. Kicklighter, Inspector General, Department of Defense; Stuart W. Bowen, Jr., Special Inspector General for
Iraq Reconstruction; Judge Radhi Hamza al-Radhi, Former Commissioner, Commission
on Public Integrity, Republic of Iraq; Gordon England, Deputy Secretary of Defense; General Benjamin S. Griffin, Commanding General,
U.S. Army Materiel Command; etc.
Senate Committee on Armed Services (GPO web page)
U.S.
Military Commitments and Ongoing Military Operations Abroad. Hearing, Senate Committee on
Armed Services, September 9, 2003. iii, 156 pp. Deputy Secretary of Defense4 Paul D. Wolfowitz,
Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Marc I Grossman,
CJCS General Richard B. Myers.
Ongoing
Military Operations and Reconstruction Efforts in Iraq. Hearing, Senate Committee on
Armed Services, September 25, 2003. iii, 148 pp. Paul L. Bremer III (head of the CPA) and General
John P. Abizaid, Commander, CENTCOM.
Current
Army Issues. Hearing, Senate Committee on Armed Services, November 19, 2003. iii,
79 pp. Acting Secretary of the Army R. Leslie Brownlee and Army Chief of Staff General Peter J. Schoomaker.
U.S.
policy and military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Hearing, Senate Committee on
Armed Services, April 20, 2004. iii, 124 pp.
Transition
to sovereignty in Iraq: U.S. policy, ongoing military operations, and status of U.S.
armed forces. Hearing, Senate Committee on Armed Services, June 25, 2004. iii, 83 pp.
U.S.
military operations and stabilization activities in Iraq and Afghanistan. Hearings, Senate
Committee on Armed Services, February 3, June 23, and September 29, 2005. iii, 313 pp. Witnesses included Paul Wolfowitz,
General Richard B. Myers, Donald H. Rumsfeld, General John P. Abizaid, and General George W. Casey.
Iraq,
Afghanistan, and the Global War on Terrorism. Hearings, Senate Committee on Armed Services,
August 3, November 15, 2006. iii, 201 pp.
The
Report of the Iraq Study Group. Hearing, Senate Committee on Armed Services, December 7, 2006. iii, 118 pp.
Briefing on the
Department of Defense Inspector General's Report on the Activities of the Office of Special Plans Prior to the war in
Iraq. Hearing, Senate Committee on Armed Services, February 9, 2007. iii, 210 pp.
The Situation in
Iraq and Progress Made by the Government of Iraq in Meeting Benchmarks and Achieving Reconciliation. Hearings,
Senate Committee on Armed Services, April 8, 9, 10, 2008. S. Hrg. 110-635. iii, 219 pp. General David H. Petraeus, Ambassador Ryan Crocker,
Andrew J. Bacevich, Gen. John M. Keene, USA (ret.), Robert Malley, Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates, CJCS Admiral Michael G. Mullen.
The Situation in Iraq and
Afghanistan. Hearing, Senate Committee on Armed Services, September 23, 2008. S. Hrg. 110-716. iii, 60 pp. Secretary of Defense
Robert M. Gates; Vice Chairman of the JCS General James E. Cartwright, USMC.
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (GPO web page)
An
Enlarged NATO: Mending Fences and Moving Forward on Iraq. Hearing, Senate Committee on
Foreign Relations, April 29, 2003. iii, 70 pp. Secretary of State colin Powell.
Iraq
Stabilization and Reconstruction: United States Policy and Plans. Hearing, Senate Committee on
Foreign Relations, May 22, 2003. iii, 82 pp. General Peter Pace, and Paul D. Wolfowitz.
Iraq
Stabilization and Reconstruction: International Contributions and Resources. Hearing, Senate Committee on
Foreign Relations, June 4, 2003. iii, 81 pp. Alan P. Larson, Under Secretary for Economic, Business and
Agricultural Affairs, Department of State; Andrew S. Natsios, Administrator, Agency for International
Development (AID); John B. Taylor, Under Secretary for International Affairs, Department of the
Treasury; Dov Zakheim, Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller).
Beyond
Iraq: Repercussions of Iraq Stabilization and Reconstruction Policies. Hearing,
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, June 12, 2003. iii, 55 pp. Peter W. Galbraith; Dr. Geoffrey Kemp; Frank
Wisner.
Constitutionalism,
human rights, and the rule of law in Iraq. Joint hearing, Subcommittee on Near Eastern and
South Asian Affairs of the
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Property Rights
of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, June 25, 2003. iii, 115 pp. Assorted non-government witnesses,
mostly scholars, including Kenneth M. Pollack and John Yoo.
Puneet Talwar and Andrew Parasiliti,
Iraq:
Meeting the Challenge, Sharing the Burden, Staying the Course. Staff trip report, Senate
Committee on Foreign Relations, July 2003. v, 45 pp. They were in Iraq (mostly in Baghdad, one day in Najaf)
June 25 to July 3, 2003.
Iraq:
Status and Prospects for Reconstruction--Next Steps. Hearing,
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, July 23, 2003. iii, 68 pp. Assorted non-government witnesses.
Iraq:
Status and Prospects for Reconstruction--Resources. Hearing,
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, July 29, 2003. iii, 97 pp. Joshua B. Bolten, Director, Office of
Management and Budget; Paul D. Wolfowitz, Deputy Secretary of Defense; General John M. Keane, Acting Chief
of Staff, US Army. On pp. 88-89 is an interesting column Wolfowitz had published in the Washington Times
July 28, "Roots of Hope in a Realm of Fear," greatly exaggerating the extent to which the problem in Iraq
was Iraqis' fear that the old regime of Saddam Hussein might return to power.
Iraq:
Next Steps: How to Internationalize Iraq and Organize the U.S. government to Administer Reconstruction
Efforts Hearing, Senate Committee on Foreign
Relations, September 23, 2003. iii, 87 pp.
Iraq:
Next Steps - What Will an Iraq 5-Year Plan Look Like? Hearing, Senate Committee on Foreign
Relations, September 24, 2003. iii, 67 pp.
Iraq:
Next Steps, How Can Democratic Institutions Succeed in Iraq and the Middle East? Hearing,
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, September 24, 2003. iii, 59 pp.
Iraq
Transition: Civil War or Civil Society? [Part
I]. Hearing, Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, April 20, 2004. iii, 81 pp.
Iraq
Transition: Civil War or Civil Society? [Part
II]. Hearing, Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, April 21, 2004. iii, 74 pp. Dr. Ahmed S. Hashim;
General George A. Joulwan (Ret.); Dr.
Michael E. O'Hanlon; Dr. Kenneth M. Pollack; Michael E. Sheehan.
The
Iraq Transition: Obstacles and Opportunities [Part III]. Hearing, Senate Committee on Foreign Relations,
April 22, 2004. iii, 110 pp. Marc Grossman,
under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, with Francis J. Ricciardone, Coordinator, Iraq Transition
Team, Department of State; Andrew S. Natsios, Administrator, Agency for International Development; Peter
W. Rodman, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, with Lt. Gen. Claude M. Kicklighter
(Ret.), Transition Chief, Coalition Provisional Authority.
The
Nomination of Hon. John D. Negroponte to be U.S. Ambassador to Iraq. Hearing, Senate Committee on
Foreign Relations, April 27, 2004. iii, 59 pp.
Iraq's Transition: The Way Ahead. Hearing, Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.
[Part
I]. May 18, 2004. iii, 105 pp.
[Part
II]. May 19, 2004. iii, 83 pp.
Iraq--Post
Transition. Hearing, Senate Committee on
Foreign Relations, July 22, 2004. iii, 33 pp. David C. Gompert, National Defense University; Ronald L. Schlicher,
Iraq Coordinator, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, Department of State.
Accelerating
U.S. assistance to Iraq. Hearing, Senate Committee on
Foreign Relations, September 15, 2004. iii, 68 pp. Ronald L. Schlicher, Deputy Assistant secretary for Iraq,
and Joseph W. Bowab, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Foreign Assistance Programs and Budget, U.S. Department of State.
The
Nomination of Dr. Condoleezza Rice to be Secretary of State. Hearings, Senate Committee on
Foreign Relations, January 18-19, 2005. v, 289 pp.
Strategies
for Reshaping U.S. Policy in Iraq and the Middle East. Hearing, Senate Committee on
Foreign Relations, February 1, 2005. iii, 123 pp. Anthony H. Cordesman, Peter Khalil, Lt. Gen. Gregory
S. Newbold, USMC (Ret.).
Policy
Options for Iraq. Hearings, Senate Committee on
Foreign Relations, Ju1y 18-20, 2005. iii, 195 pp. Anthony H. Cordesman, Gen. Barry R. McCaffrey (Ret.),
Kenneth M. Pollack, Noah Feldman, Phebe Marr, Judy Van Rest, Frederick D. Barton, Keith Crane, and
Mohamedi Fareed.
Iraq
in U.S. Foreign Policy. Hearing, Senate Committee on
Foreign Relations, October 19, 2005. iii, 85 pp. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
Iraq:
assessment of progress in economic reconstruction and governmental capacity. Staff trip report,
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, December, 2005. v, 27 pp.
Iraq
Stabilization and Reconstruction. Hearing, Senate Committee on
Foreign Relations, February 8, 2006. iii, 92 pp. Stuart W. Bowen, Jr., Special Inspector General for Iraq
Reconstruction (SIGIR); Joseph A. CHristoff, Director, International Affairs and Trade, Government
Accountability Office (GAO); James Jeffrey, Senior Advisor to the Secretary and Coordinator for Iraq Policy,
Department of State; James R. Kunder, Assistant Administrator for Asia and the Near East,
Agency for International Development (AID).
An
Iraq Update. Hearing, Senate Committee on
Foreign Relations, Ju1y 13, 2006. iii, 60 pp. Zalmay Khalilzad, US Ambassador to Iraq.
Securing America's Interest
in Iraq: The Remaining Options. Hearing, Senate Committee on
Foreign Relations, January 10 - February 1, 2007. vi, 811 pp. Many people spoke, including: Phebe Marr (pp. 6- ) and Yahia Said (pp. 23- )
on January 10; Barbar Boxer (pp. 128- ), Peter W. Galbraith (pp. 177- ), Chuck Hagel (pp. 114- ), Frederick W. Kagan (pp. 184- ),
John Kerry (pp. 118- ), Richard Lugar (pp. 97- ), Barack Obama (pp. 139- ),
and Condoleezza Rice (pp. 99- ) on January 11; Qubad Talabani (pp. 597- ) on January 25; and Henry Kissinger (pp. 701- )
on January 31.
Iraq:
An Update from the Field. Hearing, Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, July 19, 2007. S. Hrg. 110-256. iii,
37 pp. The witness was Ambassador Ryan Crocker, appearing by videoconference from Baghdad.
Iraq:
The Crocker-Petraeus Report. Hearing, Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, September 11, 2007. S. Hrg. 110-490. iii, 130 pp.
Statement by Barack Obama begins on p. 83.
Iraq
After the Surge. Hearings, Senate Committee on
Foreign Relations, April 2, 3, 8, 10, 2008. v, 451 pp. Ambassador Ryan H. Crocker, General David H. Petraeus, and
many other witnesses, many of them from outside the U.S. government.
Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
From
Factory to Foxhole: Improving DOD Logistics. Hearing, Oversight of Government Management, the
Federal Workforce and the District of Columbia Subcommittee, Senate Committee on
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, October 6, 2005. iii, 58 pp. Kenneth J. Krieg, Under Secretary
of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics; Clay Johnson III, Deputy Director for Management,
Office of Management and Budget; William M. Solis, Director, Defense Capabilities and Management,
Government Accountability Office.
Senate Committee on the Judiciary
The
Plight of Iraqi Refugees. Hearing, Senate Committee on
the Judiciary, January 16, 2007. iv, 218 pp.
Examining
Recommendations for Improvements to Iraq's Justice System. Hearing, Senate Committee on
the Judiciary, January 31, 2007. iii, 75 pp.
Combating
war profiteering: Are we doing enough to investigate and prosecute contracting fraud and abuse in
Iraq?. Hearing, Senate Committee on
the Judiciary, March 20, 2007. iii, 114 pp.
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
Lessons Learned Initiative
1. Iraq Reconstruction: Lessons in
Human Capital Management. February 2006. 61 pp.
2. Iraq Reconstruction: Lessons in
Contracting and Procurement. July 2006. 139 pp.
3. Iraq Reconstruction: Lessons in
Program and Project Management. March 2007. 158 pp.
Hard Lessons: The Iraq Reconstruction Experience. Washington, D.C.:
U.S. Government Printing Office, 2009. xix, 456 pp. An
overall history, starting with the planning
for reconstruction before the United States went into Iraq in 2003. A
preliminary draft was leaked to the
New York Times, which placed the whole draft (over 500 pages including front and back matter) online
December 13, 2008. I am not sure whether the New York Times will keep this massive document on its
website indefinitely.
First Quarterly
Report to the Congress, with
Appendices. March 30, 2004.
. . .
October 30, 2006 Quarterly
Report to Congress.
January 30, 2007 Quarterly
and Semiannual Report to Congress.
April 30, 2007 Quarterly
Report to Congress.
July 30, 2007 Quarterly
and Semiannual Report to Congress. 210 pp., plus endnotes and hundreds of pages of appendices,
paginated separately.
October 30, 2007 Quarterly
Report to Congress. 217 pp., plus endnotes, appendices, and list of acronyms, paginated separately.
. . .
October 30, 2008 Quarterly
Report to Congress. 238 pp., plus appendices.
(Main text,
appendices).
Quarterly Report and
Semiannual Report to the United States Congress, January 30, 2009. 267 pp.
Appendices.
Quarterly Report to the
United States Congress, April 30, 2009. 215 pp.
Appendices.
Quarterly Report and
Semiannual Report to the United States Congress, July 30, 2009. 250 pp.
Appendices.
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.
July 2005
Report to Congress. 23 pp.
February 2006
Report to Congress. 56 pp.
March 2007
Report to Congress. i, 42, 1, 2 pp.
March 2008
Report to Congress. vii, 60 pp.
March 2009
Report to Congress. vii, 60 pp.
U.S. Institute of Peace [this entity was created by the U.S. government, but to a significant extent
operates autonomously]
Faleh A. Jabar (Faleh Abdul-Jabar, Falih 'Abd al-Jabbar),
Postconflict Iraq:
A race for stability, reconstruction, and legitimacy. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Institute of Peace,
2004. 18 pp.
Iraq's Constitutional Process: Shaping
a Vision for the Country's Future. Washington, D.C.:
U.S. Institute of Peace, February 2005. 14 pp.
Amatzia Baram,
Who Are the Insurgents? Sunni Arab Rebels
in Iraq. Washington, D.C.:
U.S. Institute of Peace, April 2005. 19 pp.
Robert M. Perito,
The Coalition Provisional Authority's
Experience with Public Security in Iraq: Lessons Identified. Washington, D.C.:
U.S. Institute of Peace, April 2005. 13 pp.
Anne Ellen Henderson,
The Coalition Provisional Authority's
Experience with Economic Reconstruction in Iraq: Lessons Identified. Washington, D.C.:
U.S. Institute of Peace, May 2005. 18 pp.
Celeste J. Ward,
The Coalition Provisional Authority's
Experience with Governance in Iraq: Lessons Identified. Washington, D.C.:
U.S. Institute of Peace, May 2005. 12 pp. Ward was formerly the director of national security policy
with the Coalition Provisional Authority.
Alan Schwartz,
Iraq Election Scenarios: Anticipating Alternative
Futures. Washington, D.C.:
U.S. Institute of Peace, July 2005. 9 pp.
Eric Davis,
Strategies for Promoting Democracy in
Iraq. Washington, D.C.:
U.S. Institute of Peace, October 2005. 19 pp.
Jonathan Morrow,
Iraq's Constitutional Process II:
An Opportunity Lost. Washington, D.C.:
U.S. Institute of Peace, November 2005. 23 pp.
Geoffrey Kemp,
Iran and Iraq: The Shia Connection,
Soft Power, and the Nuclear Factor. Washington, D.C.:
U.S. Institute of Peace, November 2005. 19 pp.
Phebe Marr,
Who are Iraq's New Leaders? What do They
Want? Washington, D.C.:
U.S. Institute of Peace, March 2006. 19 pp.
Jonathan Morrow,
Weak viability:
The Iraqi federal state and the constitutional amendment process. Washington, D.C.:
U.S. Institute of Peace, 2006. 22 pp.
Phebe Marr,
Iraq's New Political Map. Washington,
D.C.: U.S. Institute of Peace, January 2007. 23 pp.
Robert M. Perito,
Provincial Reconstruction Teams in
Iraq. Washington, D.C.:
U.S. Institute of Peace, March 2007. 12 pp.
Babak Rahimi,
Ayatollah Sistani and the Democratization
of Post-Ba'athist Iraq. Washington, D.C.:
U.S. Institute of Peace, June 2007. 23 pp.
Jon B. Alterman,
Iraq and the Gulf States:
The Balance of Fear. Washington, D.C.:
U.S. Institute of Peace, August 2007. 16 pp.
Robert M. Perito,
U.S. Police in Peace and Stability
Operations. Washington, D.C.:
U.S. Institute of Peace, August 2007. 12 pp. The case study on Iraq is on pp. 9-11.
Rend Al-Rahim Francke,
Seven Months Into the Surge: What Does It Mean
for Iraqis?. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Institute of Peace, September 10, 2007. 38 pp.
Rend Al-Rahim Francke,
Political Progress in Iraq During the
Surge. Washington, D.C.:
U.S. Institute of Peace, December 2007. 19 pp. Based on conversations with a wide variety of Iraqis
in July 2007.
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.
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.
Since 2008 there has been a companion
publication, Armor & Cavalry Journal, published at Fort Knox by the U.S. Armor Association, and consisting, I believe,
mostly or entirely of articles reprinted from Armor. In the case of the special issue on counterinsurgency, September-October 2008
(text
online through Scribd), the two titles appear to have been identical; the articles not only are the same, they appear on the same page
numbers. This was vol. CXVII, no. 5 for Armor; it was vol. I (no. 1?) for Armor & Cavalry Journal. Articles included:
Retired General Donn Starry,
"Welcome to the Counterinsurgency Century" (pp. 6-10). A general introduction to the special issue, discussing various
matters including the Vietnam experience.
Captain John C. Moore,
"Sadr City: The Armor Pure Assault in Urban Terrain" (pp. 11-17; reprinted from the November-December 2004 issue). C Troop,
2-37 Armor (Crusaders) assaulting into Sadr City to rescue 20 soldiers of Comanche Red Platoon, 2-5 Cavalry, surrounded in
north-central Sadr City by Shiite militias.
Lieutenant Colonel Pat White,
"Task Force Iron Dukes Campaign for Najaf" (pp. 18-23; reprinted from the November-December 2004 issue). 2d Battalion, 37th Armor,
1st Brigade, 1st Armored Division, fighting Shiite militias April-June 2004.
Captain Romeo P. Cubas, USMC,
"Integrating Armor into Personnal Recovery Operations" (pp. 24-27, 46; reprinted from the July-August 2007 issue). An Nasiriyah, Iraq,
March-April 2003. The author commanded 3d Platoon, Alpha Company, 8th Tank Battalion, Task Force Tarawa.
Major Niel Smith,
"Retaking Sa'ad: Successful Counterinsurgency in Tal Afar" (pp. 28-37; reprinted from the July-August 2007 issue). Team Battle,
2-37 Armor, pacifying Tal Afar (northern Iraq) in 2006 without fighting any pitched battles.
Captain Christopher L. Center,
"The Roots of Insurgent Warfare" (pp. 38-46; reprinted from the November-December 2007 issue).
Major General Peter W. Chiarelli, Major Patrick R. Michaelis, and Major Geoffrey A. Norman,
"Armor in Urban Terrain: The Critical Enabler" (pp. 47-52; reprinted from the March-April 2005 issue). Fighting Shiite militias
in Al Tharwa (Sadr City) and An Najaf, 2004.
John P.J. DeRosa,
"Platoons of Action: An Armor Task Force's Response to Full-Spectrum Operations in Iraq" (pp. 53-58;
reprinted from the November-December 2005 issue). 1-77 Armor "Steel Tigers" in the area of Balad.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
Convention
(II) for the Amelioration of the Condition of Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea
(not very relevant to the Iraq Wars).
Convention
(III) relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War. Article 4, which lays out the rules defining who
qualifies as a prisoner of war, is particularly important if we are considering the application of
international law to the conflict in Iraq.
Convention
(IV) relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War.
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.
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
Review
of Department of Defense detention and interrogation operations. Hearings, Senate
Committee on Armed Services, May 7, 11, 19, July 22, and September 9, 2004. iv, 1474 pp.
Review of
Department of Defense detention and interrogation policy and operations in the Global War on Terrorism. Hearings, Senate
Committee on Armed Services, March 10, July 13 and 14, 2005. iii,
264 pp.
The Treatment
of Detainees in U.S. Custody. Hearings, Senate Committee on Armed Services, June 17 and September 25, 2008. iii, 308 pp.
Senate Armed Services Committee Inquiry into the Treatment of Detainees in U.S. Custody. The committee
approved this report November 21, 2008. Portions of the report, and associated documentation, were released
December 11, 2008. Other portions remained under declassification review at the Defense Department.
Part I, committee statement, June 17, 2008,
Senate
Armed Services Committee Hearing: The Origins of Aggressive Interrogation Techniques
Part II, Opening
Statement by Senator Carl Levin, Senate Armed Services Committee Hearing on the Authorization of SERE
Techniques for Interrogations in Iraq: Part II of the Committee's Inquiry into the Treatment of Detainees
in U.S. Custody, September 25, 2008
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."
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.
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.
Jennifer K. Elsea, Moshe Schwartz, and Kennon H. Nakamura,
Private Security Contractors in Iraq:
Background, Legal Status, and Other Issues. RL32419. August 25, 2008. 56 pp.
Valerie Bailey Grasso,
Defense Logistical Support Contracts in Iraq
and Afghanistan: Issues for Congress. R33834. June 24, 2009. 33 pp.
Valerie Bailey Grasso,
Defense Outsourcing:
The OMB Circular A-76 Policy. R30392. June 30, 2005. 30 pp.
Moshe Schwartz,
Department of Defense Contractors in Iraq
and Afghanistan: Background and Analysis. R40764. August 13, 2009. 19 pp.
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
Contracting for
Iraqi Security Forces. Hearing, Subcommittee on
Oversight and Investigations, House Committee on Armed Services, April 25, 2007. iv, 146 pp.
Accountability during
contingency operations: preventing and fighting corruption in contracting and establishing and maintaining appropriate
controls on materiel. Hearing, House Committee on Armed Services, September 20, 2007. iii, 94 pp. Shay D. Assad, Director,
Defense Procurement and Acquisition Policy, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition & Technology); Kathryn A. Condon,
Executive Deputy to the Commanding General, U.S. Army Materiel Command; Thomas F. Gimble,
Principal Deputy Inspector General, Department of Defense; Lt. Gen. N. Ross Thompson, III, Military Deputy to the Assistant Secretary
of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology; Peter M. Velz, Foreign Affairs Specialist for Iraq, Office of the Deputy Assistant
Secretary of Defense for Middle East.
House Committee on Government Reform/House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
Private
security firms standards, cooperation, and coordination on the battlefield. Hearing, House Committee on
Government Reform, June 13, 2006. iii, 215 pp. Includes testimony by representatives both of the U.S.
government agencies that use security contractors in Iraq, and the major security firms that work there.
Acquisition
Under Duress: Reconstruction Contracting in Iraq. Hearing, House Committee on
Government Reform, September 28, 2006. iv, 217 pp.
Iraqi
Reconstruction: Reliance on Private Military Contractors and Status Report. Hearing, House Committee on
Oversight and Government Reform, February 7, 2007. iii, 287 pp.
Blackwater
USA. Hearing, House Committee on
Oversight and Government Reform, October 2, 2007. Serial No. 110-89. iii, 190 pp. Witnesses included Erik Prince of Blackwater,
and Ambassador David M. Satterfield, Senior Advisor to the Secretary and Coordinator for Iraq, U.S. Department of State.
The State Department
and the Iraq War . Hearing, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, October 25, 2007. iii, 71 pp. Secretary of
State Condoleezza Rice.
Deficient electrical systems
at U.S. facilities in Iraq. Hearing, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, July 30, 2008. iii, 115 pp.
House Committee on the Judiciary
War Profiteering and
Other Contractor Crimes Committed Overseas. Hearing, Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security,
House Committee on the Judiciary, June 19, 2007. Serial No. 110-103. iii, 92 pp.
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
USAID
Contracting Policies. Hearing, Subcommittee on International Economic Policy, Export and Trade Promotion,
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, February 25, 2004. iii, 60 pp. Deals with Iraq and Afghanistan.
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.
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":
Stephen D. Reese,
"Militarized journalism: framing dissent in the Gulf Wars" (pp. 247-265)
Nick Couldry and John Downey,
"War or peace?: legitimation, dissent, and rhetorical closure in the press" (pp. 266-282)
Justin Lewis and Rod Brookes,
"How British television news represented the case for the war in Iraq" (pp. 283-300)
Terhi Rantanen,
"European news agencies and their sources in the Iraq war coverage" (pp. 301-314)
Adel Iskandar and Mohammed el-Nawawy,
"Al-Jazeera and war coverage in Iraq: the media's quest for contextual objectivity" (pp. 315-332)
Patricia Aufderheide,
"Big media and little media: the journalistic informal sector during the invasion of Iraq" (pp. 333-346)
Stuart Allan,
"The culture of distance: online reporting of the Iraq war" (pp. 347-365)
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.
"Cable News and the War with Iraq in 2003."
Journalism.org, March 15, 2004.
"Embedded Reporters: What Are Americans Getting?"
Journalism.org, April 3, 2003.
"Journalism in Time of War."
Journalism.org, July 1, 2004. A listing of articles on the media's coverage of the war, originally
published January to May 2003. Links are given for all items, but not all of the links work; some items
that were available online in 2004 no longer are today.
"Journalists in Iraq - A Survey of Reporters on the
Front Lines." Journalism.org, November 28, 2007.
"A Media Mystery: Private Security Companies in
Iraq - A PEJ Study." Journalism.org, June 21, 2007.
Dante Chinni, "The Military’s Iraq Channel on You Tube."
Journalism.org, May 11, 2007.
David Vaina, "The Vanishing Embedded Reporter in Iraq."
Journalism.org, October 26, 2006.
Yahya R. Kamalipour and Nancy Snow, eds.,
War, Media, and Propaganda: A Global Perspective. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004. xv, 261 pp.
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.
Scott Thomas,
"War
Bonds." The New Republic, February 5, 2007, p. 34.
Scott Thomas,
"Dead
of Night: The Zombie Dogs of Baghdad." The New Republic, June 4, 2007, pp. 16-17.
Scott Thomas,
"Shock
Troops." The New Republic, July 23, 2007, p. 56.
Louise Story,
"Doubts Raised on
Magazine’s ‘Baghdad Diarist’." New York Times, July 24, 2007.
Howard Kurtz,
"Army Private
Discloses He Is New Republic's Baghdad Diarist." Washington Post, July 27, 2007, C7.
Patricia Cohen,
"Army Says
Soldier’s Articles for Magazine Were False ." New York Times, August 8, 2007.
Franklin Foer,
"Fog
of War: The Story of Our Baghdad Diarist." The New Republic, December 10, 2007.
Jack Shafer,
"The Lessons of TNR's Baghdad Diarist:
The good news about the bad news the magazine is finally accepting." Slate, December 4, 2007.
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.
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
Military health-care
budget and the challenges facing the military health-care system. Hearing, Military Personnel Subcommittee,
House Committee on Armed Services, February 13, 2007. iii, 67 pp. H.A.S.C. No. 110-16.
Findings of the
Department of Defense Task Force on Mental Health . Hearing, Military Personnel Subcommittee,
House Committee on Armed Services, July 12, 2007. iii, 163 pp. H.A.S.C. No. 110-69.
House Committee on Veterans' Affairs
Post-traumatic
stress disorder and traumatic brain injury as emerging trends in force and veterans health. Hearing,
Subcommittee on Health, House Committee on Veterans' Affairs, September 28, 2006. iv, 280 pp. Serial No. 109-67.
PTSD and Personality Disorders. Hearing, House Committee on Veterans' Affairs, July 25, 2007.
Witness List
with links to the statements of the witnesses.
The Long-Term
Costs of the Current Conflict. Hearing, House Committee on Veterans' Affairs, October 17, 2007. iii, 75 pp. Serial No. 110-54.
Stopping Suicides:
Mental Health Challenges Within the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Hearing, House Committee on Veterans' Affairs,
December 12, 2007. iii, 129 pp. Serial No. 110-61.
The Nexus Between
Engaged in Combat with the Enemy and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder in an Era of Changing Warfare Tactics. Hearing,
Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs, House Committee on Veterans' Affairs,
March 24, 2009. iv, 101 pp. Serial No. 111-9.
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.
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.
Writing a Term Paper
in Military History.
U.S. Army Foreign Military Studies Office Analytical Products web page. A diverse
online collection of articles and documents, most of them previously published somewhere.
Copyright © 2007, 2008, 2009, Edwin E. Moise. This document may be reproduced only by
permission. Revised November 19, 2009.
This page has been accessed U.S. Policy: Overall
S 1.1:
Foreign
Relations of the United States web site. The University of Wisconsin has
made many of the older volumes available online at its own
Foreign
Relations of the United States web site. Most of the published volumes
are now available online in one or the other of these collections. The recent volumes dealing with
Iraq of which I am aware are:
E 183.8 .I57 S44 2008
Doctrine on Insurgency and Counterinsurgency
D 101.84:31/2
November-December 2005 (vol. LXXXV, no. 6)
Iraq
DS 79.66 .S575 G65 2005
DS70.8 .S55 N35 1994
Y 4.B 22/3:S.HRG.102-996
The Iran-Iraq War, and U.S. Involvement in It
Y 4.F 76/1:P 43/7
Y 4.AR 5/3:S.prt.100-38
Y 4.F 76/2:S.prt.98-225
Y 4.F 76/2:S.prt.100-60
Y 4.F 76/2:S.hrg.101-1055
Y 4.AR 5/3:S.HRG.100-1035
Y 4.Ar 5/2 a:987-88/119
Y 4.AR 5/2 A:991-92/77
The First U.S. - Iraq War: Desert Shield and Desert Storm (1990-1991)
Overall Desert Storm and Miscellaneous
D 1.2:P 43/2
Y 4.Ar 5/2 a: 989-90/57
Y 4.AR 5/3:S.HRG.101-1071
E744 .H495 2001
Y 4.G 74/7:IR 1/3
Y 4.Ar 5/2 a:991-92/17
Y 4.F 76/2:S.HRG.101-1128/pt.1-2
Air Power Desert Storm
D 301.26/6:AR 5/2
D 301.26/6:C 76/6 (microfiche)
D 301.82/7:ST 8/2
D 301.26/6:AU 7/3X
D 301.82/7:G 95
D 214.13:P 43/7
D 301.26/6:SA 5
D 301.26/6:C 88/996 (microfiche)
Friendly Fire
Y 4.G 74/9: S.HRG. 104-268
MICROFICHE GA 1.13: NSIAD-94-19
microfiche GA 1.13: OSI-93-4
microfiche GA 1.13:NSIAD-96-91 R
Ground War Desert Storm
D 102.83:
DS79.735 .R37 M67 2004
D 101.2:D 45/6
D 214.13:P 43
D 214.13:P 43/5
[Probably D 214.13:P 43/1 but I have been unable to verify this]
D 214.13:P 43/3
D 214.13:P 43/2
D 214.13:P 43/4
D 214.13:P 43/6
Covert & Special Ops Desert Storm
Media Desert Storm
Medical Consequences of Desert Storm
Y 4.AR 5/ 2 A: 993-94/ 58
Y 4.AP 6/2:S.HRG. 103-819
Y 4.AP 6/2:S.HRG.106-843
Y 4.G 74/7:G 95/7
Y 4.G 74/7:P 43/11
. Hearing,
Subcommittee on Health, House Committee on Veterans' Affairs, April 23, 1998.
Y 4.V 64/3:105-35
Y 4.V 64/3:108-19
Y 1.1/5:105-362
. (MR-1018/3-OSD?). Santa Monica: Rand, 2003. 290 pp.
Dalia M. Spektor, Elaine Reardon, and Sarah K. Cotton,
Documentation for the Pesticide Use During the Gulf War:
The Survey Instrument. MR-1226-OSD. Santa Monica: Rand, 2000. 205 pp.
Vol. 1. Lee H. Hilborne and Beatrice Alexandra Golomb, Infectious
Diseases. MR-1018/1-OSD. Santa Monica: Rand, 2000. xxi, 119 pp. Also available online if you are browsing
through an institution that has paid for a subscription to NetLibrary.
Vol. 2. Beatrice Alexandra Golomb, Pyridostigmine
Bromide. MR-1018/2-OSD. Santa Monica: Rand, 1999. xxviii, 385
pp. Executive Summary.
Vol. 3. Beatrice Alexandra Golomb, Immunizations
Vol. 4. Grant N. Marshall, Lois M. Davis, Cathy D. Sherburne, with David W. Foy et al.,
Stress. 2000. xxv, 118 pp.
Vol. 5. William S. Augerson,
Chemical and Biological Warfare Agents. 2000. 314
pp. Available online if you are browsing
through an institution that has paid for a subscription to NetLibrary.
Vol. 6. Dalia M. Spektor, Oil Well
Fires. MR-1018/6-OSD. Santa Monica: Rand, 1998. xix, 77
pp. Errata.
Vol. 7. Naomi H. Harley et. al.,
Depleted Uranium. 1999. xxvi, 120 pp.
Vol. 8. Gary Cecchine et. al., Pesticides.
MR-1018/8-OSD. Santa Monica: Rand, 2000. xxxiv, 182 pp.
Y 4.V 64/4: S.HRG. 103-647
Y 1.1/5: 103-386
Y 4.V 64/4:S.HRG.103-983
Y 4.IN 8/19:S.HRG.104-867
pp. 225-433 are: "U.S. Chemical and Biological Warfare-Related Dual Use Exports to Iraq and their
Possible Impact on the Health Consequences of the Persian Gulf War," staff report of the Senate Committee on
Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, May 25, 1994.
pp. 434-551 are: "U.S. Chemical and Biological Warfare-Related Dual Use Exports to Iraq and their
Possible Impact on the Health Consequences of the Persian Gulf War," staff report of the Senate Committee on
Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, October 7, 1994.
Navy Desert Storm
D 221.2:G 95
Y 4.M 53:102-57
Y 4.M 53:101-120
Iraq between the two American Wars
Y 4.AR 5/2 A:999-2000/10
Y 4.AR 5/2 a: 991-92/79
Y 4.F 76/1: IR 1/15
Y 4.IN 8/16:IR 1/3
Y 4.IN 8/16:IR 1/7
Y 4.IN 8/16:IR 1/3/2000
Y 4.SE 2/1 A:995-96/38
Y 4.SE 2/1 A:997-98/51
D 101. 2: K 96/ 2
Y 4.AR 5/3:S.HRG.104-788
Y 4.AR 5/3:S.HRG.106-327
Y 4.AR 5/3:S.HRG.106-1121
Y 4.J 89/2:S.prt.102-31
Y 4.J 89/2:S.HRG.105-993
. Staff report,
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, May 1991. vii, 28 pp.
Y 4.F 76/2:S.prt.102-27
Y 4.F 76/2:S.prt.102-56 [mistakenly listed in the Clemson Library catalog as Y 4.F 76/2:S.prt.105-56]
Y 4.F 76/2:S.HRG.103-893
Y 4.F 76/2:S.HRG.104-280
Y 4.F 76/2:S.HRG.105-444
Y 4.F 76/2:S.HRG.105-650
Y 4.F 76/2:S.HRG.105-725
Y 4.F 76/2:S.HRG.106-41
Y 4.F 76/2:S.HRG.106-241
Y 4.F 76/2:S.HRG.106-261
Y 4.F 76/2:S.HRG.106-735
Y 4.F 76/2:S.HRG.106-824
Y 4.F 76/2:S.HRG.107-19
JX 1246 .S47 1998
Y 1.1/7:106-223
Y 1.1/7:107-25
Y 1.1/7:107-132
The Oil-for-Food Program
Y 4.F 76/2:S.HRG.106-86
Y 4.G 74/7:IR 1/6
Y 4.IN 8/16OI 5/4
Y 4.IN 8/16OI 5/5
Y 4.IN 8/16OI 5/6
Y 4.IN 8/16OI 5/7
Y 4.IN 8/16OI 5/8
Y 4.IN 8/16OI 5/9
WMDs and Accusations about Iraqi Links with Al Qaeda
PREX 1.19:IN 8/W 37
Y 4.F 76/1:Is 7/3
Y 4.IN 8/16:IR 1/9
Y 4.AR 5/2 A:2005-2006/115
Y 4.AR 5/3:S.HRG.107-573
Y 4.AR 5/3:S.HRG.108-678
Y 4.AR 5/3:S.HRG.108-855
Y 4.F 76/2:Is 7/3
Y 4.F 76/2:P 75/13
Y 4.F 76/2:S.HRG.106-655
Y 4.F 76/2:S.HRG.108-35
Y 4.IN 8/19:S.HRG.104-796
Y 1.1/5:108-301
[another copy down on level 1, call number KF31.5 .I5 2004]
Y 1/1/5:109-330
Y 1/1/5:109-331
Y 1.1/5:110-346
The Second U.S. - Iraq War (2003- )
General and Miscellaneous
DS 79.76 .I87 2004
UC263 .C36234 2005
The Second U.S. - Iraq War: U.S. Policy
DS79.76 .H66 2005
Y 4.AR 5/2 A:2001-2002/46
Y 4.AR 5/2A:2003-2004/15
Y 4.B 85/3:108-4
Y 4.B 85/3:108-6
Y 4.G 74/7:IR 1/4
Y 4.IN 8/16:P 75/22
Y 4.IN 8/16:P 75/26
Y 4.IN 8/16:IR 1/14
Y 4.IN 8/16:IR 1/15
Y 4.IN 8/16:R 92/12
Y 4.IN 8/16:IR 1/3/2003
Y 4.IN 8/16:H 88/38
Y 1.1/5:110-76
Y 1.1/5:108-33
Y 4.AR 5/3:S.HRG.107-840
Y 4.AR 5/3:S.HRG.108-241/PT.1-6
Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld and
CJCS Myers, February 13 (pp. 10-110).
Army Chief of Staff Eric K. Shinseki and other service chiefs, February 25: Shinseki
introductory remarks (pp. 115-117); Shinseki
Prepared Statement (pp. 117-139); Thomas E. White and General Eric K. Shinseki, The United States Army
Posture Statement: The Army - At War and Transforming, 2003 (pp. 140-184); actual testimony
of General Shinseki and the other service chiefs (pp. 238-331). General Shinseki's
famous prediction that "several hundred thousand soldiers" would be needed for the postwar occupation of
Iraq is on p. 241.
Y 4.AR 5/3:S.HRG.108-526
Y 4.AR 5/3:S.HRG.108-654
Y 4.F 76/2:S.HRG.107-234
S. Hrg. 107-658.
Y 4.F 76/2:S.HRG.107-658
Y 4.F 76/2:S.HRG.107-417
Y 4.F 76/2:S.HRG.107-798
Y 4.F 76/2:S.HRG.108-43
Y 4. F 76/ 2: S. HRG. 108-21
Y 4.F 76/2:S.HRG.108-53
Y 4.G 74/9:S.HRG.107-388
Y 4. G 74/9:S.HRG.108-174
Y 4.IN 8/ 19:S. HRG. 108-161
Y 4.EC 7:IR 1/3
International Aspects
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
D 114.2:IR 1
The Second U.S. - Iraq War: U.S. Marines
D 214.13:IR 1
Post 2003
Peter C. Danchin,
"International law, human rights and the transformative occupation of Iraq" (pp. 64-89)
Senate, April 3, 2003,
pages S4737-S4787, debate on the "Supplemental Appropriations Act to Support Department of Defense Operations in Iraq for
Fiscal Year 2003."
Senate, October 1, 2003,
pages S12220-S12270, brief remarks on the leaking of the identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame, followed by
extended debate on the "Emergency Supplemental Appropriations for Iraq and Afghanistan Security and Reconstruction Act, 2004."
DS79.76 .E53 2005
Y 4.B 22/3:S.HRG.108-784
Y 4.AR 5/2A:2003-2004/17
Y 4.AR 5/2A:2003-2004/28
Y 4.AR 5/2A:2005-2006/31
Y 4.AR 5/2A:2005-2006/32
Y 4.AR 5/2A:2005-2006/33
Y 4.AR 5/2A:2005-2006/41
Y 4.AR 5/2 A:2005-2006/87
Y 4.AR 5/2 A:2005-2006/122
Y 4.AR 5/2 A:2005-2006/92
Y 4.AR 5/2 A:2007-2008/4
Y 4.AR 5/2 A:2007-2008/5
Y 4.AR 5/2 A:2007-2008/6
Y 4.AR 5/2 A:2007-2008/7
Y 4.AR 5/2 A:2007-2008/9
Y 4.AR 5/2 A:2007-2008/12
Y 4.AR 5/2 A:2007-2008/13
Y 4.AR 5/2 A:2007-2008/18
Y 4.AR 5/2 A:2007-2008/20
Y 4.AR 5/2 A:2007-2008/21
Y 4.AR 5/2 A:2007-2008/23
Y 4.AR 5/2 A:2007-2008/24
Y 4.AR 5/2 A:2007-2008/33
Y 4.AR 5/2 A:2007-2008/47
Y 4.AR 5/2 A:2007-2008/53
Y 4.AR 5/2 A:2007-2008/54
Y 4.AR 5/2 A:2007-2008/19
Y 4.AR 5/2 A:2007-2008/43
Y 4.AR 5/2 A:2007-2008/49
Y 4.AR 5/2 A:2007-2008/56
Y 4.AR 5/2 A:2007-2008/57
Y 4.AR 5/2 A:2007-2008/58
Y 4.AR 5/2 A:2007-2008/60
Y 4.AR 5/2 A:2007-2008/71
Y 4.AR 5/2 A:2007-2008/74
Y 4.AR 5/2 A:2007-2008/78
Y 4.AR 5/2 A:2007-2008/82
Y 4.AR 5/2 A:2007-2008/72
Y 4.AR 5/2 A:2007-2008/75
Y 4.AR 5/2 A:2007-2008/81
Y 4.AR 5/2 A:2007-2008/86
Y 4.AR 5/2 A:2007-2008/85
Y 4.AR 5/2 A:2007-2008/88
Y 4.AR 5/2 A:2007-2008/89
Y 4.AR 5/2 A:2007-2008/93
Y 4.AR 5/2 A:2007-2008/96
Y 4.AR 5/2 A:2007-2008/98
Y 4.AR 5/2 A:2007-2008/99
Y 4.AR 5/2 A:2007-2008/102
Y 4.AR 5/2:IR 1/2
Y 4.AR 5/2 A:2007-2008/106
Y 4.AR 5/2 A:2007-2008/107
Y 4.AR 5/2 A:2007-2008/109
Y 4.AR 5/2 A:2007-2008/110
Y 4.AR 5/2 A:2007-2008/165
Y 4.AR 5/2 A:2007-2008/115
Y 4.AR 5/2 A:2007-2008/118
Y 4.AR 5/2 A:2007-2008/149
Y 4.AR 5/2:IR 1/3
Y 4.B 85/3:108-14
Y 4.B 85/3:109-16
Y 4.B 85/3:110-1
Y 4.G 74/7:P 31/3
Y 4.G 74/7:IR 1/5
Y 4.G 74/7:IR 1/8
Y 4.G 74/7:F 96/13
Y 4.G 74/7:IR 1/9
Y 4.G 74/7:IR 1/10
Y 4.G 74/7:IR 1/12
Y 4.G 74/7:IR 1/16
Y 4.G 74/7:IR 1/14
Y 4.G 74/7:IR 1/15
Y 4.G 74/7:110-131
Y 4.IN 8/16:IR 1/17
Y 4.IN 8/16:IM 6
Y 4.IN 8/16:IR 1/20
Y 4.IN 8/16:IR 1/25
Y 4.IN 8/16:IR 1/23
Y 4.F 76/1:IR 1/24
Y 4.F 76/1:IR 1/17
Y 4.F 76/1:IR 1/25
Y 4.F 76/1:IR 1/22
Y 1.1/7:110-31/CORR.
Y 4.F 76/1:IR 1/18
Y 4.F 76/1:IR 1/23
Y 4.F 76/1:IR 1/26
Y 4.F 76/1:IR 1/28
PREX 1.2:IR 1
Y 4.EC 7:IR 1/3/CORR
Y 4.EC 7:S.HRG.110-703
November-December 2005 (vol. LXXXV, no. 6)
Y 4.AP 6/2:S.HRG.108-373
Y 1. 1/5: 108-160
Y 4.AP 6/2:S.HRG.108-681
Y 4.AR 5/3:S.HRG.108-569
Y 4.AR 5/3:S.HRG.108-653
Y 4.AR 5/3:S.HRG.108-655
Y 4.AR 5/3:S.HRG.108-867
Y 4.AR 5/3:S.HRG.108-853
Y 4.AR 5/3:S.HRG.109-386
Y 4.AR 5/3:S.HRG.109-885
Y 4.AR 5/3:S.HRG.109-920
Y 4.AR 5/3:S.HRG.110-232
Y 4.AR 5/3:S.HRG.110-716
Y 4.F 76/2:S.HRG.108-186
Y 4.F 76/2:S.HRG.108-132
Y 4.F 76/2:S.HRG.108-165
Y 4.F 76/2:S.HRG.108-167
Y 4.F 76/2:S.HRG.108-217
Y 4.F 76/2:S.PRT.108-31
Y 4.F 76/2:S.HRG.108-219
Y 4.F 76/2:S.HRG.108-255
S. Hrg. 108-293
Y 4.F 76/2:S.HRG.108-293
S. Hrg. 108-276
Y 4.F 76/2:S.HRG.108-276
S. Hrg. 108-282.
Y 4.F 76/2:S.HRG.108-282
Y 4.F 76/2:S.HRG.108-578/PT.1
Y 4.F 76/2:S.HRG.108-578/PT.2
Y 4.F 76/2:S.HRG.108-578/PT.3 [at one time, mistakenly labelled Y 4.F 76/2:S.HRG.108-645/PT.3]
Y 4.F 76/2:S.HRG.108-474
Y 4.F 76/2:S.HRG.108-645/PT.1-2
Y 4.F 76/2:S.HRG.108-729
Y 4.F 76/2:S.HRG.108-865
Y 4.F 76/2:S.HRG.109-21
Y 4.F 76/2:S.HRG.109-312
Y 4.F 76/2:S.HRG.109-449
Y 4.F 76/2:S.PRT.109-40
Y 4.F 76/2:S.HRG.109-851
Y 4.F 76/2:S.HRG.109-869
Y 4.F 76/2:S.HRG.110-757
Y 4.G 74/9:S.HRG.109-272
Y 4.J 89/2:S.HRG.110-3
Y 4.J 89/2:S.HRG.110-5
Y 4.J 89/2:S.HRG.110-39
October 2005
Report to Congress. 44 pp.
May 2006
Report to Congress. 65 pp.
August 2006
Report to Congress. ii, 63 pp.
November 2006
Report to Congress. ii, 50 pp.
June 2007
Report to Congress. iv, 46 pp.
September 2007
Report to Congress. v, 49 pp.
December 2007
Report to Congress. v, 54 pp.
June 2008
Report to Congress. vi, 66 pp.
September 2008
Report to Congress. vii, 63 pp.
December 2008
Report to Congress. vii, 58 pp.
June 2009
Report to Congress. viii, 71 pp.
Post-2003: Military
D 101.78/2:
D 114.2:IR 1
D 214.13:AN 1
D 110.2:W 19
U.S. Interrogation
Policy and Executive Order 13440. Hearing, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, September 25, 2007. iii, 98
pp. S. Hrg. 110-849. [Executive Order 13440, July 20, 2007, had
given President Bush's interpretation of
Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions.]
Y 4.IN 8/19:S.HRG.110-849
Post 2003: British Military
Prisons and Prisoner Abuse
DS 79.76 .T676 2005
LTG Anthony R. Jones, "AR 15-6 Investigation of the Abu Ghraib Prison and
205th Military Intelligence Brigade" is pp. 6-33.
Maj. Gen. George R. Fay, "AR 15-6 Investigation of the
Abu Ghraib Detention Facility and 205th Military Intelligence Brigade" is pp. 34-176.
Y 4.AR 5/3:S.HRG.108-868
Y 4.AR 5/3:S.HRG.109-471
Y 4.AR 5/3:S.HRG.110-232
Women
Post-2003: Contractors and Contracting
Y 4.AR 5/2 A:2007-2008/55
Y 4.AR 5/2 A:2007-2008/91
Y 4.G 74/7:SE 2/35
Y 4.G 74/7:IR 1/11
Y 4.G 74/7:IR 1/13
Y 4.G 74/7:110-89
Y 4.G 74/7:110-120
Y 4.G 74/7:110-134
Y 4.J 89/1:110-103
Y 4.F 76/2:S.HRG.108-561
The Second U.S. - Iraq War: Media
P96.W352 W37 2004
The Second U.S. - Iraq War: Medical and Stress Issues
Y 4.AR 5/2 A:2007-2008/16
Y 4.AR 5/2 A:2007-2008/69
Y 4.V 64/3:109-67
Y 4.G 74/7:OC 1/15
Opinions expressed in this page are my own. They could not very well
be the opinions of Clemson University, since Clemson University does not have opinions on the subjects
involved. And they may well be wrong in some cases; please bear in mind that I am not an expert on Iraq or
the Middle East.
times
since August 30, 2007.