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Friday, November 29, 2024

Tim Pritchard, Ambush Alley, The Most Extraordinary Battle of The Iraq War, Ballantine Books, 2005

Pritchard, Tim, Ambush Alley, The Most Extraordinary Battle of The Iraq War, Ballantine Books, 2005


 

Tim Pritchard’s Ambush Alley, The Most Extraordinary Battle Of The Iraq War is one of those books that you can’t put down once it gets going. It covers a battalion of Marines who attacked Nasiriya during the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The Americans weren’t expecting any resistance but found themselves in one of the most intense battles of the entire conflict. The author does a fantastic job describing the drama that ensued.

This Day In Iraqi History - Nov 29 PM Abdul Mahdi resigned under pressure from Ayatollah Sistani over killing protesters


 

1914 Gen Barrett and Sir Percy Cox asked that UK occupation of Basra be announced as

permanent believing it would sway Arabs to UK side Request turned down

(Musings On Iraq review When God Made Hell, The British Invasion of Mesopotamia and the Creation of Iraq, 1914-1921)

Thursday, November 28, 2024

Security In Iraq Nov 22-28, 2024

During the fourth week of November the Islamic State once again disappeared from Iraq while incidents by the Islamic Resistance also fell of...