The Three Circles of War - 9781597974998

The Three Circles of WarUnderstanding the Dynamics of Conflict in Iraq\nAuthor(s): Heather Gregg, Hy S. Rothstein, John Arquilla\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Potomac Books Inc, United States\nImprint: Potomac Books Inc\nISBN-13: 9781597974998, 978-1597974998\nSynopsis\nThe conflict in Iraq is characterized by three faces of war: interstate conflict, civil war, and insurgency. The Coalition's invasion of Iraq in March 2003 began as an interstate war. No sooner had Saddam Hussein been successfully deposed, however, than [url] forces faced a lethal insurgency. After Sunni al Qaeda in Iraq bombed the Shia al-Askari Shrine in 2006, the burgeoning conflict took on the additional element of civil war with sectarian violence between the Sunni and the Shia.\n\nThe most effective strategies in a war as complicated as the three-level conflict in Iraq are intertwined and complementary, according to the editors of this volume. For example, the \""surge\"" in [url] troops in 2007 went beyond an inc.