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Re: Looking for Direction: Primary Source Material on Iraqi Soldiers

You might also look at:

KM Woods, and ME Stout, “Saddam’s Perceptions and Misperceptions: The Case of ‘Desert Storm,” The Journal of Strategic Studies (2010).

I asked Mark Stout, one of the co-authors, and he said:

" The volumes on Desert Storm and the Iran-Iraq war are also possible sources, depending on the time period this person is interested in. Then read footnotes and FOIA."

The Desert Storm book was published by the United States Naval Institute Press, and the Iran-Iraq War by Cambridge.

Re: July 2022 Handgrenade, The Boy from Ohio

I happen to have been reading a lot about the anti-war sentiment in the US, and it's easy to forget how strong it was. Congress knew that FDR was trying to plan for war, and many believed he was repeating what they saw as the errors of Wilson, so I think your point about what the Congressional response would have been is compelling.

Re: Looking for Direction: Primary Source Material on Iraqi Soldiers

David,

Many thanks for the two leads. I just ordered the book. The Iraqi Perspectives is something that immediately hooked me. I do hope that it will provide the information I am looking for but, even if not, this will help me understand more about the Iraqi perspective and thinking process / mindset which will certainly aid my analysis.

Again, many thanks.

Re: Looking for Direction: Primary Source Material on Iraqi Soldiers

It looks like:

Laurie Collier Hillstrom, War in the Persian Gulf Primary Sources: From Operation Desert Storm to Operation Iraqi Freedom (2004).

has some Iraqi soldier material.

The Iraqi Perspectives Project put out a couple of volumes of Iraqi primary sources but I think they were largely of senior officers.

Re: July 2022 Handgrenade, The Boy from Ohio

I agree with you about those who blame King for the failures in 1942. My only acquaintance with the issue is from Cohen and Gooch (Military Misfortunes) and Morison. The matrix Cohen and Gooch constructed to explain the levels of military misfortune is instructive in this case, which they characterize as a "failure to learn."

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James Carl Nelson

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Jon Ault

Ault on Nelson, 'The Polar Bear Expedition: The Heroes of America’s Forgotten Invasion of Russia, 1918-1919'

James Carl Nelson. The Polar Bear Expedition: The Heroes of America’s Forgotten Invasion of Russia, 1918-1919. New York: William Morrow, 2019. viii + 309 pp. Ill. $28.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-06-285277-9.

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Sambaluk on Jonsson, 'The Russian Understanding of War: Blurring the Lines between War and Peace'

Oscar Jonsson. The Russian Understanding of War: Blurring the Lines between War and Peace. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2019. 200 pp. $32.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-62616-734-6; $98.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-62616-733-9; $32.95 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-62616-735-3.

Reviewed by Nicholas Sambaluk (Air University) Published on H-War (June, 2022) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

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De Barra on Griffin and Cogliano, 'Ireland and America: Empire, Revolution, and Sovereignty'

Patrick Griffin, Francis D. Cogliano, eds. Ireland and America: Empire, Revolution, and Sovereignty. The Revolutionary Age Series. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021. 356 pp. $49.50 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8139-4601-6; $37.50 (e-book), ISBN 978-0-8139-4602-3.

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