Iraqi Security Forces

Download or read book Iraqi Security Forces written by Anthony H. Cordesman and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2005-11-30 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author, radio commentator, and sometime US government agent, Cordesman (Center for Strategic and International Studies) argues that the US must construct Iraqi military, security, and police forces as an essential element of nation-building and stability, and presents a program for doing so. Most of the book is analysis of the planning and execution of the 2003 US invasion of Iraq and the subsequent occupation and resistance to it. Then he looks at The Iraqi View, the evolving nature of the conflict and the risk of sectarian and ethnic conflict, before laying out his own ideas in the final chapter.