Article: Iraqi Security Forces: A Strategy for Success.(Book review)

Iraqi Security Forces: A Strategy for Success. By Anthony H. Cordesman. Westport: Praeger Security International, 2006.410 pp. $49.95.

Cordesman prolifically chronicles Middle Eastern military affairs, and Iraqi Security Forces is a typical work for him with much information but little analysis. He does not debate the rationale for the Iraq war--what's past is past--but, with the benefit of hindsight, suggests that strategic mistakes could have been avoided. Included on a long list of bullet-points are failures to assess Iraqi nationalism accurately, to plan effective information operations, establish the civilian infrastructure necessary for nation-building and ...

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