Dr. Heather Marie Stur is a professor of history at the University of Southern Mississippi and a senior fellow in USM’s Dale Center for the Study of War & Society. She is the author of: Saigon at War: South Vietnam and the Global Sixties (Cambridge, 2020), The U.S. Military and Civil Rights Since World War II (ABC-CLIO, 2019), and Beyond Combat: Women and Gender in the Vietnam War Era (Cambridge, 2011). She is also co-editor of Integrating the U.S. Military: Race, Gender, and Sexuality Since World War II (Johns Hopkins, 2017). Dr. Stur’s articles and op-eds have been published by the New York Times, the Washington Post, the BBC, the National Interest, the Orange County Register, Diplomatic History, War & Society, and other journals and newspapers.

Accompanied by a series of informative maps, 21 Days to Baghdad is an interesting perspective on the Iraq War.

• List of IllustrationsMapsIntroduction1. The Making of a Seventh-Generation Soldier 2. The Arabist: Blount in Saudi Arabia 3. War Planning 4. Preparations in Kuwait5. Invasion6. Pushing Through Karbala7. The General’s Gamble: Seizing Baghdad8. Now What?9. FallujahConclusionAppendix: Third Infantry Division Order of Battle, Iraq 2003AcronymsNotes Selected Bibliography Index

Dr. Heather Marie Stur is a professor of history at the University of Southern Mississippi and a senior fellow in USM’s Dale Center for the Study of War & Society. She is the author of: Saigon at War: South Vietnam and the Global Sixties (Cambridge, 2020), The U.S. Military and Civil Rights Since World War II (ABC-CLIO, 2019), and Beyond Combat: Women and Gender in the Vietnam War Era (Cambridge, 2011). She is also co-editor of Integrating the U.S. Military: Race, Gender, and Sexuality Since World War II (Johns Hopkins, 2017). Dr. Stur’s articles and op-eds have been published by the New York Times, the Washington Post, the BBC, the National Interest, the Orange County Register, Diplomatic History, War & Society, and other journals and newspapers.

Accompanied by a series of informative maps, 21 Days to Baghdad is an interesting perspective on the Iraq War.

• List of IllustrationsMapsIntroduction1. The Making of a Seventh-Generation Soldier 2. The Arabist: Blount in Saudi Arabia 3. War Planning 4. Preparations in Kuwait5. Invasion6. Pushing Through Karbala7. The General’s Gamble: Seizing Baghdad8. Now What?9. FallujahConclusionAppendix: Third Infantry Division Order of Battle, Iraq 2003AcronymsNotes Selected Bibliography Index

Dr. Heather Marie Stur is a professor of history at the University of Southern Mississippi and a senior fellow in USM’s Dale Center for the Study of War & Society. She is the author of: Saigon at War: South Vietnam and the Global Sixties (Cambridge, 2020), The U.S. Military and Civil Rights Since World War II (ABC-CLIO, 2019), and Beyond Combat: Women and Gender in the Vietnam War Era (Cambridge, 2011). She is also co-editor of Integrating the U.S. Military: Race, Gender, and Sexuality Since World War II (Johns Hopkins, 2017). Dr. Stur’s articles and op-eds have been published by the New York Times, the Washington Post, the BBC, the National Interest, the Orange County Register, Diplomatic History, War & Society, and other journals and newspapers.

Accompanied by a series of informative maps, 21 Days to Baghdad is an interesting perspective on the Iraq War.

• List of IllustrationsMapsIntroduction1. The Making of a Seventh-Generation Soldier 2. The Arabist: Blount in Saudi Arabia 3. War Planning 4. Preparations in Kuwait5. Invasion6. Pushing Through Karbala7. The General’s Gamble: Seizing Baghdad8. Now What?9. FallujahConclusionAppendix: Third Infantry Division Order of Battle, Iraq 2003AcronymsNotes Selected Bibliography Index