The Surge: The Whole Story

By late 2006, attacks on US troops and Iraqis reached nearly 5,000 per month and 2,500 to 3,000 Iraqis were being killed each month. Then came The Surge. Those in command were charged with the responsibility of making Iraqi citizens safe and restoring order but they didnt have a clue as to how theyd pull it off. In December, 2006, Gen. Petreus put his head down on his desk and wondered what he was doing there. Never-before-interviewed military personnel tell the story of what they found when they arrived in Iraq, and how they reacted. No history of the Iraq war is complete without this story, and the strategies employed by these men will likely be used elsewhere.

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[RobertEdwardJ25]

You say that "the strategies employed by these men will likely be used elsewhere." Well, they're being used in Afghanistan and they're failing. That's because they failed in Iraq as well. Ask Lugar who went ballistic after two months of triple digit Coalition Force Casualties (that had never happened until The Surge gave the insurgents more infidels to kill). 231,000 extra Iraqi Security Force troops saved the day, not 21,000 US soldiers.