America's war in Syria : fighting with Kurdish anti-ISIS forces / by Till "Baz" Paasche, John Foxx, and Shaun Murray.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Paasche, Till F., author.

Foxx, John, author.

Murray, Shaun, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Diplomatic relations.

Syria--History--Civil War, 2011---Participation, American.

Syria.

United States--Foreign relations--Syria.

United States.

Syria--Foreign relations--United States.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

240 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Havertown, PA : Casemate Publishers, 2022.

Summary:

With America's War on Terror and the subsequent democracy experiments in Afghanistan and Iraq having turned into geopolitical disasters, the US military campaign in alliance with the Kurdish forces in Syria is one of the few success stories. Military experts and politicians in Washington, DC, judge the intervention against ISIS in Syria as the nation's most successful campaign since WWII, based on the overwhelming military victory, the functioning Kurdish civilian governing structures that followed the fighting, the extremely light military footprint and the strong link to Kurdish partners many political analysts. However, since neither these experts nor many journalists were on the ground during the fighting, they struggle to explain exactly how this particular operation turned into a just war. The authors, however, were there. Between the three of them, they fought for over two years with the Kurdish forces. They participated in all the large Kurdish operations against the Islamic State between late 2014 and mid-2016.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781636241524

1636241522

OCLC:

1273913017

Publisher Number:

99991415501