Research Catalog

Title

Withdrawal from Iraq : assessing the readiness of Iraqi security forces / authors Anthony H. Cordesman, Adam Mausner.

Author

Cordesman, Anthony H.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Center for Strategic and International Studies, 2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

Mausner, Adam

Description

xviii, 208 p. : ill., maps; 28 cm.

Series Statement

Significant issues series ; v. 31, no. 3

Subjects

• Iraq > Military relations > United States
• United States > Military relations > Iraq
• Disengagement (Military science)
• United States > Armed Forces > Iraq
• Iraq War, 2003-2011
• Iraq > Politics and government > 2003-
• Iraq > Military policy
• Internal security > Iraq
• National security > Iraq
• Iraq > Armed Forces > Operational readiness

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Executive summary -- Introduction: The past as prologue and the lessons to date -- Iraq's real-world performance in combat:: the battle for Basra, the South, and Baghdad -- The broader challenges: national unity, political accommodation, and governance -- the ability to "hold" and "build" -- Force development at the ministerial level -- Crosscutting challenges affecting all Iraqi forces -- Sectarian and ethnic issues and the problem of local control -- Force development challenges: the Iraqi Army -- Force development challenges: expanding the Iraqi Air Force and Navy -- Force development challenges: expanding the regular Iraqi Police -- The National Police -- Other security forces -- The Sons of Iraq (Awakening or Sahwa Councils) -- Conclusions.

ISBN

• 9780892065530 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0892065532 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2008052351

OCLC

281093443

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library