The Death of the Mehdi Army: Insurgency and Civil Society in Occupied Baghdad 9780199396252

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Автор: Krohley Nicholas
Название: The Death of the Mehdi Army: Insurgency and Civil Society in Occupied Baghdad
ISBN: 9780199396252
Издательство: Oxford Academ
Издательство: Oxford University Press, USA
Классификация: ISBN-10: 0199396256
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 256
Вес: 0.54 кг.
Дата издания: 01.11.2014
Язык: English
Размер: 225 x 141 x 20
Ссылка на Издательство: Link
Поставляется из: США
Описание: The Mehdi Army militia was a towering force in Iraq during the early years of the post-Saddam era. As an aggressive opponent of foreign occupation and one of the principal antagonists in Iraqs brutal sectarian civil war, the militia was central to the violence that ravaged the country and a pivotal political actor. Growing rapidly in size and strength, and controlling entire districts of Baghdad and broad swathes of southern and central Iraq, the Mehdi Army seemed poised to become a Hezbollah-like state within a state that would remain enormously powerful for years to come.
Drawing from extensive field experience in one of Baghdads most volatile militia-held districts, Krohley exposes how, and why, the militia suddenly and unexpectedly collapsed in the midst of the Americans Surge of forces during 2008. Building from an examination of the Mehdi Armys social and ideological roots, he presents a neighbourhood-by-neighbourhood study of the militias changing fortunes that offers unparalleled local detail and specificity. Krohley shows how the Mehdi Armys demise was ultimately a self-inflicted death as opposed to a triumph of its foes. In so doing, he not only challenges prevailing orthodoxies of counterinsurgency doc- trine and the mythology of the Surge, but also offers penetrating insights into the battered state of Iraqi society after decades of dictatorship, privation and war.

The Death of the Mehdi Army: Insurgency and Civil Society in Occupied Baghdad, Krohley Nicholas