The Gamble¶
Ricks. (2009). The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008. Penguin.
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- The 2007 change of approach paired a troop surge with a shift to population-centric counterinsurgency
This sourceRicks’s account of the US change of approach in Iraq that paired the troop surge with a population-centric counterinsurgency, moving troops into cities to protect the population.
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“rule of [counterinsurgency] is to be there. . . . This de- mands a residential [approach]: living”
- The 2007 change of approach paired a troop surge with a shift to population-centric counterinsurgency
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