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By Bing West
"This is the face of warfare as simply those that have fought it may describe it."–Senator John McCain
Fallujah: Iraq’s most deadly urban abruptly emerged because the significant battleground of the Iraqi insurgency. For twenty months, one American battalion after one other attempted to quell the violence, culminating in a bloody, full-scale attack. Victory got here at a poor rate: 151 americans and millions of Iraqis have been left dead.
The epic conflict for Fallujah printed the startling connections among coverage and strive against which are part of the hot truth of war.
The Marines had deliberate to slide into Fallujah “as gentle as fog.” yet after 4 American contractors have been brutally murdered, President Bush ordered an assault at the city–against the recommendation of the Marines. The attack sparked a political firestorm, and the Marines have been compelled to withdraw amid controversy and confusion–only to be ordered a moment time to take a urban that had develop into an inferno of hate and the lair of the archterrorist al-Zarqawi.
Based on months spent with the battalions in Fallujah and hundreds of thousands of interviews at each level–senior policymakers, negotiators, generals, and squaddies and Marines at the entrance lines–No precise Glory is a testomony to the bravery of the yank soldier and a cautionary story concerning the complex–and usually costly–interconnected roles of coverage, politics, and conflict within the twenty-first century.
From the Hardcover edition.
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