No Legacy Here : Memoir of a Marine Officer in Iraq.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tierney, Winston.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Iraq War, 2003-2011--Personal narratives, American.

Iraq War, 2003-2011.

Counterinsurgency--Iraq--Anbār (Province).

Counterinsurgency.

Iraq War, 2003-2011--Campaigns--Iraq--Anbār (Province).

United States. Marine Corps. Reconnaissance Battalion, 4th.

United States.

United States. Marine Corps--Biography.

Tierney, Winston, 1971-.

Tierney, Winston.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (194 pages)

Place of Publication:

Jefferson : McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers, 2022.

Summary:

"What happens when a career Marine officer stops believing in the doctrine of the Corps and the official pretexts for war? In 2006, Winston Tierney deployed to Iraq's Anbar Province with the Fourth Reconnaissance Battalion, excited and proud to serve his country in the fight against international terrorism. After several trips to Iraq over the next nine years he returned depleted by hatred, mendacity, alcohol abuse and PTSD, he felt he had "seen behind the curtain"--and didn't like what he saw. His hard-hitting memoir depicts the brutal realities of the conflict in Iraq at street level, while giving a clear-eyed treatise on the immorality of war and the catastrophe of America's failures in the Middle East"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The Big Letdown

Who We Were

The "Why" the COIN Experts Gave Us and Our Interpretation of It

What We Did

What We Got for Our Efforts

How Reinforcing Failure Looks

Final Thought.

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Tierney, Winston No Legacy Here

ISBN:

9781476647210