Brave Rifles Reading List for Operation Iraqi Freedom

Counterinsurgency History and Theory

Beckett, Ian F. W.  Modern Insurgencies and Counter-insurgencies, Routledge, 2001. CARL 355.021809 B396m  

Boot, Max. The Savage Wars of Peace,  Basic Books, 2002.  CARL 355.0218 B725s 

Callwell, Colonel C.E..   Small Wars: Their Principles and Practice, University of Nebraska Press, 1996.  CARL 355.0218 C163s 

Chaliand, Gerard. Guerrilla Strategies, University of California Press, 1982.  CARL 55.02184  G935 

Fontenot, Gregory, E. J. Degen and David Tohn. [OIF Study Group]  On Point: The US Army in Operation Iraqi Freedom, Combat Studies Institute Press, 2004.   CARL 956.70443 F683o 

Horne, Alistair.  A Savage War of Peace, Penguin Books, 1979.  CARL 965.04  H815s               

Joes, Anthony James. America and Guerilla Warfare,  University Press of Kentucky, 2000. CARL 355.0218  J64a 2000   

Linn, Brian McAllister. The Philippine War 1899-1902, University Press of Kansas, 2000.  CARL 959.9031 L758p 

Nagl, John. Counterinsurgency Lessons From Malaya and Vietnam: Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife,  Praeger, 2002.  CARL 355.0218 N149c 2002 

O’Neill, Bard. Insurgency and Terrorism: Inside Modern Revolutionary Warfare, Brassey’s Inc, 1990. CARL 355.02180904 O58i 

Robertson, William G. and Lawrence A. Yates, ed.  Block by Block: The Challenges of Urban Operations, CGSC Press, 2003. CARL 355.426 B65l 2003              

Armstrong, Karen. Islam: A Short History, Modern Library, 2002. CARL 297.01 A736i 2002 

Hourani, Albert.  A History of the Arab Peoples,  Warner Books, 1992.  CARL 909.0974927 H841ha 

Lewis, Bernard. The Crisis of Islam : Holy War and Unholy Terror,  Modern Library, 2003.  CARL 297.72 L673c 2003 

Lewis, Bernard. The Arabs in History,  Harper & Row, 1966.  CARL 953 L673a 

Patai, Raphael. The Arab Mind, Scribner, 1973.  CARL  301.2917 P294a

Central Intelligence Agency. 2004. Iraq. CIA World Factbook. Internet. Available from https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/iz.html; accessed 7 November 2006.  

*Dabrowska, Karen. and Felicity Arbuthnot.  Iraq: The Bradt Travel Guide,  Bradt Travel Guides, 2002. 

Farouk-Sluglett, Marion and Peter Sluglett.  Iraq Since 1958: From Revolution to Dictatorship, I.B. Tauris, 1990.  CARL 956.7043  F237is 

Marr, Phebe. Modern History of Iraq,  Westview Press, 2004. CARL 956.704  M358m  2004 

*Miller, John, Aaron Kenedi and David Rose. Inside Iraq: The History, the People, and the Modern Conflicts of the World's Least Understood Land,  Marlow & Company, 2003.

Tripp, Charles, A History of Iraq, Cambridge University Press, 2000.  CARL 956.704  T836h

Chaliand, Gerard. A People Without a Country: The Kurds and Kurdistan, Zed Press, 1980. CARL  909.095667 G411p 

Nakash, Yitzah. The Shi’is of Iraq, Princeton University Press, 1994.  CARL 297.8209567  N163s 1994 

*Yildiz, Kerim and Tom Blass. Iraqi Kurds: The Past, Present and Future, Pluto Press, 2004.

Terrill, W. Andrew.   The United States and Iraq’s Shi’ite Clergy: Partners or Adversaries? , Strategic Studies Institute, 2004.    http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pdffiles/00362.pdf  or  CARL 327.730567 T326u  

Arquilla, John.   The Advent of Net War Revisited , RAND, 1996.  http://rand.org/publications/MR/MR789/ 

Hoffman, Bruce. Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in Iraq , RAND, 2004.  http://www.rand.org/pubs/occasional_papers/2005/RAND_OP127.pdf

Antal, John.  City Fights: Selected  Histories of Urban Combat from World War II to Vietnam, Presidio, 2003.  CARL 355.426 C5812 

Bowden, Mark.  Black Hawk Down,  Atlantic Monthly Press, 1999.  CARL 967.7305 B784b 

Oliker, Olga. Russia’s Chechen Wars 1994-2000: Lessons from Urban Combat, RAND, 2001.  CARL 947.086  O46r

Holmes, Richard.  Acts of War: The Behavior of Men in Battle, Free Press, 1985.  CARL 303.66 H752a 

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