The 2008 battle of Sadr City

"The 2008 Battle of Sadr City, which took place in Baghdad nearly 15 months after the beginning of the U.S. "surge" in Iraq, has received relatively little scholarly attention. However, the coalition's defeat of Jaish al-Mahdi after six weeks of high-intensity fighting offers imp...

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التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
المؤلف الرئيسي: Johnson, David E. (David Eugene), 1950-
مؤلفون مشاركون: Rand Corporation, Arroyo Center, United States. Army, ebrary, Inc
مؤلفون آخرون: Markel, M. Wade, Shannon, Brian
التنسيق: الكتروني كتاب الكتروني
اللغة:الإنجليزية
منشور في: Santa Monica Calif. : RAND, 2011.
سلاسل:Occasional paper (Rand Corporation) ; OP-335-A.
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جدول المحتويات:
  • The 2008 battle of Sadr City
  • Background
  • Methodology
  • Setting conditions
  • The area of operations
  • Mission: stop the rockets and defeat criminal militias in Sadr City
  • The ground fight in Sadr City: heavy armor matters
  • The counter rocket fight
  • Exploitation
  • Key insights from the fight
  • Reimagining urban operations as wide area security missions.