Dawn over Baghdad : how the U.S. military is using bullets and ballots to remake Iraq /
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| Author / Creator: | Zinsmeister, Karl. |
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Imprint: | San Francisco : Encounter Books, 2004. |
| Description: | xi, 237 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5573202 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: American's Warrior Class
- Trooper Talent
- Yes Men, No
- Citizen Soldiers
- Military Culture
- 1. Crackdown
- Fighting Fire with Fire
- Strike, Counterstrike
- Security Blanket
- 2. The Reconstruction Business
- Imam Troubles
- Cordon and Search
- Walking a Tightrope
- Fixer Fighters
- 3. Democracy School
- Reading the Riot Act
- Sheikdown
- Seeds of Democracy
- The Self-Rule Revolution
- The Upside of Iraq's Divisions
- Learning to Like Shiites
- 4. What Ordinary Iraqis Want
- No Need for Nightmares
- The Un-Fanatics
- Unpopular Insurgents
- 5. The Character Test
- Look to Washington, Not D.C.
- The Responsibility Gap
- Politics and Religion
- Individual Scruples, Collective Success
- The Power of Linked Arms
- 6. Military-Industrial Complex
- Our Needle-Nose Syndrome
- The War on Choppers
- Bricks and Mortar
- Getting Babylon Back in Business
- In the Armored Carpool
- Duel in the Artillery Factory
- Market Jitters
- Power to the People
- Iraqi Imports
- Weapons Scientists in Watertown
- 7. Guerilla Lessons
- Following the Infantry
- Lots of Fighting Left
- New Blood
- Balancing the Hard and the Soft
- Avoiding Dependency
- 8. Here We Come
- Raiding the Raiders
- Dreamland
- In the Snake Pit
- Walking Fallujah
- Can We Afford It?
- Thanks for Nothing
- New Friends for Old
- 9. What It Takes To Win
- Hard-Fought Victory
- The Propaganda Shop
- Coming Home
- Undodgeable Reality
- The Struggle of Wills
- Author's Note: The Media War
- Why Iraq?
- Negativity Without Balance
- Distortion Dangers
- Life on Uranus
- They Report, They Decide?
