Anbar, 2003–2011: The Generation of a Community Mobilization Strategy (2024)

Death, Dominance, and State-Building: The US in Iraq and the Future of American Military Intervention

Roger D. Petersen

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2024

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9780197760772

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9780197760741

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Death, Dominance, and State-Building: The US in Iraq and the Future of American Military Intervention

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Petersen, Roger D., 'Anbar, 2003–2011: The Generation of a Community Mobilization Strategy', Death, Dominance, and State-Building: The US in Iraq and the Future of American Military Intervention (New York, 2024; online edn, Oxford Academic, 23 May 2024), https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197760741.003.0011, accessed 3 June 2024.

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This chapter is co-written with Jon Lindsay, who served as a Naval intelligence officer in Anbar in the period immediately after the Surge. Chapter 10 and Chapter 11 serve as a set; in both, practitioners analyze their respective experiences in two parts of Iraq at roughly the same time. Chapter 11 first covers early Sunni mobilization in Anbar and alliance with al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI). The chapter moves to investigate the failure of US clear, hold, build (CHB) strategy in Anbar. It then examines the development and implementation of a successful community mobilization strategy in the form of the Awakening and how it “flipped” Anbar tribes from alliance with AQI to alliance with the United States.

Keywords: Anbar, insurgency, counterinsurgency, US military, state-building, military intervention, Shia-Sunni conflict, the Awakening, al-Qaeda in Iraq, alliance formation

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