Confronting al Qaeda
The Sunni Awakening and American Strategy in Al Anbar
1st Edition
Published on 22. March 2016
158 pages
979-8-216-28060-6 (ISBN)
Description
Based on in-depth interviews with tribal Sheiks involved in the Awakening and their American military counterparts, Confronting al Qaeda is a study of decision-making processes and the political psychology of the Sunni Awakening in al Anbar. It traces the change in American military strategy that made the Awakening collaboration between the Sunni tribes and the U.S. forces possible. It explains how the evolution of the tribal leaders' perspective and of the American military strategy led to defeat al Qaeda in al Anbar. The process of these changing mutual images is detailed as well as how the cooperation between groups led to further evolution of perceptions. Political and military realities urgently forced these perceptual and social identity shifts initially, but the process of cooperation and engagement accelerated these shifts through increasingly mutually beneficial cooperation and interaction during the battle with al Qaeda in Iraq.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Illustrations
2 BW Photos, 3 Tables
ISBN-13
979-8-216-28060-6 (9798216280606)
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Martha L. Cottam | Joe W. Huseby | Bruno Baltodano
Confronting al Qaeda
The Sunni Awakening and American Strategy in al Anbar
Book
03/2016
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Persons
Martha L. Cottam is C.O. Johnson Distinguished Professor, School of Politics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs, Washington State University, and director, Washington State University Institute for the Study of Intercommunal Conflict.
Joe W. Huseby is an instructor in the School of Politics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs, Washington State University.
Bruno Baltodano isa professor of Political Science at Florida SouthWestern State College.
Joe W. Huseby is an instructor in the School of Politics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs, Washington State University.
Bruno Baltodano isa professor of Political Science at Florida SouthWestern State College.
Content
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2: US Intervention and the Birth of the Insurgency in al Anbar
Chapter 3: The Tribes: High Expectations and Disappointment
Chapter 4 The Violence Escalates
Chapter 5: The Awakening Spreads
Chapter 6: Epilogue and Conclusion
Chapter 2: US Intervention and the Birth of the Insurgency in al Anbar
Chapter 3: The Tribes: High Expectations and Disappointment
Chapter 4 The Violence Escalates
Chapter 5: The Awakening Spreads
Chapter 6: Epilogue and Conclusion
