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2) Iraq war
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Provides an account of the Iraq War, a three-week war fought in 2003 to eliminate the threat posed by the regime of Saddam Hussein, discusses the objectives and strategies of the combatants, looks at key battles and leaders, and considers the significance of the conflict.
5) The Iraq War
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A collection of essays in which participants, witnesses, and involved professionals offer their perspectives on the Iraq War.
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Contains sixteen essays that offer varying perspectives on issues related to military recruiters, including their exploitation of vulnerable teens, recruiting in schools, counter-recruitment efforts, recruiting quotas, and other topics, and provides contact information for organizations and a bibliography.
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Ryan Smithson joined the Army Reserve when he was seventeen. Two years later, he was deployed to Iraq as an Army engineer. In this extraordinary and harrowing memoir, readers march along one GI's tour of duty. Smithson avoids writing either prowar propaganda or an antimilitary polemic, providing instead a fascinating, often humorous-and occasionally devastating-account of the motivations and life of a contemporary soldier.
14) Rebuilding Iraq
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This book discusses the causes and key personalities of the 2003 War with Iraq and the problems that exist today in a rebuilding of Iraq, a country that had already experienced decades of neglect of public service.
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The critically acclaimed author of the Pulitzer Prize-winner and New York Times best-seller An Army at Dawn, returns with this awesome account of modern warfare, the soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division of the U.S. Army, and their actions in the Iraq war of 2003. Beginning with a midnight flight out of Fort Campbell, Kentucky, the fast-paced story continues to the Army staging grounds in Kuwait, and onward into the thick of battle in Iraq.
18) Pivotal moments
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An examination of some of the most pivotal moments in the war against terrorism, such as the 1993 bombing in Beirut, Lebabnon, the 1993 and 2001 World Trade Center attacks, and more.