The 2005 Iraqi Sunni awakening : the role of the Desert Protectors Program / William Knarr.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Knarr, William, author.

Contributor:

Joint Special Operations University (U.S.), issuing body.

Series:

JSOU report ; 15-4.

JSOU report ; 15-4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sunnites--Iraq.

Sunnites.

Counterinsurgency--Iraq--Anbār (Province).

Counterinsurgency.

Iraq War, 2003-2011--Campaigns--Iraq--Qāʼim.

Iraq War, 2003-2011.

Military campaigns.

Iraq.

Iraq--Anbār (Province).

Iraq--Qāʼim.

Genre:

Online resources.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 103 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Other Title:

Role of the Desert Protectors Program

Place of Publication:

MacDill Air Force Base, Florida : The JSOU Press, 2015.

Summary:

Dr. Knarr tells the story of Al Sahawa, the Awakening, in Iraq from a different perspective than most narratives. Many associate the beginning of the movement with Sheikh Sattar Albu-Risha's 14 September 2006 proclamation in Ramadi, where he coined the term Al Sahawa. However, Dr. Knarr contends that the Anbar Awakening, as a movement, started 12 months prior to the Sheikh's proclamation. As a movement, the Awakening began in the northwest of Al Anbar, in Al Qaim District along the Syrian/Iraqi border with the Albu-Mahal tribe. The Albu-Mahal, in what would become a fight for survival, realized that they could not fight Al Qaida in Iraq (AQI) on their own and pleaded for help from the Coalition and the Government of Iraq. The foundation for developing that partnership was a little known program called the "Desert Protectors." The development of the Desert Protectors has tremendous lessons for today as a newly formed Coalition organizes to fight the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant(ISIL), an outgrowth of AQI--Publisher.

Contents:

2003 : the growing insurgency

2004 : a year of chaos, transitions, and condition-setting

The Western Euphrates River Valley

An awakening in Al Qaim

Policy changes and the development of the Desert Protectors

Expanding the Desert Protectors Program : the Albu-Nimr Tribe in Hit

Discussion : the rest of the story

Summary and conclusions.

Notes:

"October 2015"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 87-103).

Online resource, PDF version; title from title page (JSOU, viewed June 16, 2017).

Other Format:

Print version: Knarr, William. 2005 Iraqi Sunni awakening : the role of the Desert Protectors Program

OCLC:

930522249