Iraq and the War on Terror: Twelve Months of Insurgency 2004/2005 - Softcover

Incisive, elegant, profound: if you want to understand what happened and why, you should start here. - George Monbiot Paul Rogers is a secular prophet for our troubled age. This analysis should be required reading in the Pentagon. - David Loyn, BBC Paul Rogers has proved himself, time and again, to be a dispassionate analyst of events in Iraq...this is a must read. - Tom Walker, The Sunday Times '...a very accessible and digestible text...'Morning Star, 21st November 2005. Review by Geoff Simons 'Rogers dry, narrative style makes his account of 12 months of the war more effective than many of the more emotional, contemporaneous accounts.' - Tribune

Since the start of the Iraq conflict, world-renowned security expert Paul Rogers has produced a series of monthly reports scrutinising developments in the occupation and the Iraqi response to it, drawing on the unique range of contacts and material available to the prestigious Oxford Research Group. They have become the standard source material for journalists, policymakers and campaigners writing about Iraq. Now, for the first time, Paul Rogers has brought these reports together to provide a detailed and authoritative analysis of the last year in Iraq. A disturbing picture emerges, in which coalition forces repeatedly misread the direction of the insurgency, in which radical groups gain strength through the ongoing (and underreported) loss of civilian lives at the hands of the occupying forces, and in which the US's determination to secure the Persian Gulf's oil and gas resources lock it further and further into a destructive, intractable, and ultimately counter-productive war in the Middle East. Concisely-written and highly accessible, "Iraq and the War on Terror" is an indispensable book for anyone interested the Middle East, US foreign policy and international security. Its conclusions about the extent of the damage caused by the war, and how long the occupation looks set to last, will send shockwaves through policymakers in the US and the UK alike.