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U.S. Marines in Iraq, 2003: Basrah, Baghdad and Beyond (U.S. Marines in the Global War on Terrorism) by Colonel Nicholas E. Reynolds U.S. Marine Corps Reserve (Retired) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Includes more than 75 photos, maps and plansThis particular book is about Marines during the first stage of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). It spans the period from 11 September 2001 to March and April 2003, when the Coalition removed Saddam Hussein from power, and concludes in November 2003 when the Marines left Kuwait to return to their home bases in the U.S.. While many then believed that the “kinetic” phase of the fighting in Iraq was largely over, as we now know, it was only a prelude to a longer but just as deadly phase of operations where Marines would be redeployed to Iraq in 2004 to combat insurgents (both foreign and domestic) who had filtered back into the country. However, this phase of the fighting would be very different from the one the Marines and U.S. Army had fought in the spring of 2003 in the march up to take Baghdad.The primary focus of the book is I Marine Expeditionary Force (I MEF)-the run-up to the war in 2002 and early 2003, especially the development of “the plan,” with its many changes, the exhaustive rehearsals, and other preparations, and then the conduct of decisive combat operations and the immediate postwar period, mostly under the control of the U.S

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Author

Colonel Nicholas E. Reynolds U.S. Marine Corps Reserve (Retired)

Publisher

History Division, United States Marine Corps

Published

2007

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Military History, Humanities