Iraq’s Sunni Insurgency

AvAhmed S. Hashim

Häftad, Engelska, 2009

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From 2003 to 2008, the Sunni Arab insurgency in Iraq posed a key challenge to political stability in the country and to Coalition objectives there. This paper explains the onset, composition and evolution of this insurgency. It begins by addressing both its immediate and deeper sociopolitical origins, and goes on to examine the multiple ideological strands within the insurgency and their often conflicting methods and goals. Despite organisational incoherence due to the existence of a large number of competing groups, the insurgency in Iraq sustained a particularly high tempo of operations between 2004 and 2006, causing considerable military and civilian casualties. Some insurgent groups focused on attempting to foment civil war between two of Iraq’s major communities, the Sunni and Shia Arabs and, by late 2006, they had come close to unravelling Iraq and presenting the Coalition with a major defeat. The adoption of a new approach by the US in 2007 helped reduce the level of violence in Iraq. In addition, deep fissures within the insurgency itself, between those fighting for more practical, immediate goals and the transnational Islamists and their local allies fighting for wider-reaching goals – including the promotion of sectarian strife – contributed to the insurgency’s diminution. It remains to be seen whether there will be a widespread recognition among Sunni Iraqis of the need to work with the Coalition to facilitate their community’s reintegration into the new Iraqi body politic.

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Utgivningsdatum:2009-02-20
Mått:156 x 234 x 6 mm
Vikt:170 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Adelphi series
Antal sidor:92
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9780415466554

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Ahmed S. Hashim is Professor of Strategic Studies in the Strategic Research Department of the United States Naval War College. He has published extensively on Iraq and irregular warfare, as well as on wider Middle Eastern strategic issues. His publications include Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in Iraq (Ithaca, NY, and London: Cornell and Hurst, 2006). Hashim has deployed to Iraq with the US Army as a political adviser on three occasions, where he focused on studying the Iraqi insurgency and providing strategic and operational input to the Coalition's counter-insurgency campaign plan. His book God, Greed, and Guns: Violence and War in Iraqi State-Formation and Nation-Building will be published in 2009.

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Introduction 1. Origins, Causes and Composition 2. Ideology 3. Objectives and Strategy 4. Organisation, Targeting, Operational Art and Tactics 5. The Insurgency's Internal and External Problems 6. Conclusion

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