Report from the Field: The Fallujah awakening: A case study in counter-insurgency

Small Wars and Insurgencies

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 591-609

  Green, Daniel R ^a  

^a Research Development Test and Evaluation Division Code 524   (United States)

Author keywords

2007; Anbar; Anbar Province; Counter insurgency; Fallujah; Iraq; Sunni insurgency; Surge; The Anbar Awakening; The Awakening

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959988655     PISSN: 09592318     EISSN: 17439558     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09592318.2010.518860     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. Bernard B. Fall, Street Without Joy, Harrisburg, PA: The Stackpole Company, 1961, 375.
2. Jeffrey Race, War Comes to Long An: Revolutionary Conflict in a Vietnamese Province, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1972, 276.
3. Thomas R. Searle, 'Tribal Engagement in Anbar Province: The Critical Role of Special Operations Forces,' Joint Forces Quarterly, Issue 50 (3rd Quarter 2008): 62-6.
4. The Abu Mahal tribe in Al Qaim near the Syrian border turned against al-Qaeda in large part because they had burned down the tribe's warehouses of liquor, bootleg DVDs, and porn that they smuggled into Iraq and sold for profit.
5. John Bagot Glubb, The Story of the Arab Legion, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1948, 120.
6. Captain Patriquin was killed in Ramadi on 6 December 2006. You can view Patriquin's presentation at: blogs. abcnews. com/theworldnewser/files/Patriquin PowerPoint. pdf
7. Major Niel Smith and Colonel Sean MacFarland, 'Anbar Awakens: The Tipping Point,' Military Review (March-April 2008): 41-52. Sheik Sattar was assassinated on 13 September 2007.
8. John Bagot Glubb, The Story of the Arab Legion, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1948, 41.
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11. David Galula, Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice, Westport, CT: Praeger Security International, 2006, 78.
12. Lieutenant General Lewis Walt, USMC, on Vietnam, February 1967; see Joseph H. Alexander, Don Horan and Norman C. Stahl, The Battle History of the U.S. Marines: A Fellowship of Valor, New York: Harper Collins, 1997, 316.
13. Former Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay, http://www.rmaf.org.ph/
14. Neil Sheehan, A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam, New York: Vintage Books, 1989, 107.
15. Edward Geary Lansdale, In the Midst of Wars: An American's Mission to Southeast Asia, New York: Fordham University Press, 1991, 373.