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The American War of Independence to the Iraqi Insurgency
Pegasus
May 2008
On Sale: April 28, 2008
240 pages
ISBN: 1933648775
EAN: 9781933648774
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Political
Michael Rose exposes a grim reality: Iraqi insurgents have
adopted the same guerrilla warfare tactics used during the
American Revolution. In June 1775, George Washington commanded a band of rebels
who were, in the eyes of the British, nothing more than a
collection of "vagrants, deserters and thieves." Yet he led
them in a revolution against the British, which ended with
an American victory. Washington succeeded in defeating the
most powerful army in the world—not by engaging in
conventional warfare, at which the British excelled, but by
waging an insurgency campaign of ambush and indirect attacks. In 2003, the United States invaded Iraq, and in the years
that have followed, America has found itself fighting a
widespread popular insurrection with an army trained for
conventional warfare. Like King George and his advisers,
President Bush and his cabinet misunderstood the nature of
the problem facing them and underestimated its scale. Both
imperial Britain and modern American failed to commit enough
troops early on, nor could they resolve the dilemmas of
counter-insurgency: how to wage military action and isolate
the insurgents without alienating the local population. The
British Army learned from its mistakes to remain a dominant
world power; the Americans, by contrast, seem to be
forgetting the lessons of their founding fathers.
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