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Review
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'Rose is shrewd and coruscating on America's (and Britain's) mistaken assumptions and tactical stupidity in Iraq...' (Rod Liddle THE SUNDAY TIMES )
'My only regret about this lucid, elegantly written history, is that Rose didn't write it sooner.' (David Robinson THE SCOTSMAN )
'Rose is shrewd and coruscating on America's (and Britain's) mistaken assumptions and tactical stupidity in Iraq...' (Rod Liddle THE SUNDAY TIMES )
'My only regret about this lucid, elegantly written history, is that Rose didn't write it sooner.' (David Robinson THE SCOTSMAN )
David Robinson, THE SCOTSMAN
'My only regret about this lucid, elegantly written history, is that Rose didn't write it sooner.'
Product Description
In 1775, George Washington took command of a ragbag army of American insurgents and took on the might of the British Army. Through a brilliant campaign of ambush and indirect attacks, he finally succeeded in defeating the greatest military power in the world, and won America its independence. Today it is the USA that is the world's dominant superpower. When they entered Iraq in 2003 they made the same mistakes that the British made over 200 years ago: they underestimated the popular hostility against them, and believed they could fight a widespread insurgence using troops trained for conventional warfare. They are beginning to learn, as the British did, that sheer military power is not enough. As a former Director of UK Special Forces and Commander of the United Nations Protection Force in Bosnia, Michael Rose is uniquely experienced in counter-insurgency warfare. In this hard-hitting book he explains the principles of guerrilla warfare as used in the American War of Independence, and shows how those same principles have been adopted by the insurgents in Iraq.
About the Author
General Sir Michael Rose KCB CBE DSO QGM was commissioned into the Coldstream Guards in 1964 and served with the SAS in Malaya and Oman. He commanded the 22nd SAS Regiment (1979-82) during the London Iranian Embassy siege and the Falkland Islands War. From January 1994 to January 1995 he assumed command of the UN Protection Force in Bosnia after which he became Adjutant General and a member of the Army Board. Now retired from the Army, he writes and lectures on peace-keeping and leadership.
