He concludes with an unusually candid assessment of the successes and failures of the Coalition’s counter-insurgency campaign. He next profiles the various insurgent groups, detailing their origins, aims, and operational and tactical modi operandi. Hashim begins by placing the Iraqi revolt in its historical context. The U.S.-led offensive to retake Fallujah in November 2004 and the success of the elections for the Iraqi National Assembly in January 2005 have led more ‘mainstream’ insurgent groups to begin thinking of reinforcing the political arm of their opposition movement and to seek political guarantees for the Sunni Arab community in the new Iraq. These groups have cooperated with one another in the past and coordinated their attacks but the alliance between nationalist Iraqi insurgents on the one hand and religious extremists has frayed considerably. Instead, it involves former regime loyalists, Iraqis resentful of foreign occupation, foreign and domestic Islamist extremists, and elements of organised crime. The insurgency, he shows, is not a united movement directed by a leadership with a single ideological vision. In this sobering account of the ongoing violence, Ahmed Hashim, a specialist on Middle Eastern strategic issues and on irregular warfare, reveals the insurgents behind the widespread revolt, their motives, and their tactics. invasion of Iraq, a loosely organised insurgency continues to target American and Coalition soldiers, as well as Iraqi security forces and civilians, with devastating results.
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