IAFS 1000 Iraq and the Counterinsurgency Debate. Lecture Outline Counterinsurgency Feisal I of Iraq Cairo Conference British Withdrawal and Return Independent.

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IAFS 1000 Iraq and the Counterinsurgency Debate

Lecture Outline Counterinsurgency Feisal I of Iraq Cairo Conference British Withdrawal and Return Independent Iraq

Counterinsurgency (COIN) John Nagl (interview)(interview) –2005: Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife –2006: role in writing COIN Field Manual Defying categorization: –Andrew Bacevich –Sarah Sewall

Andrew Bacevich Andrew Bacevich on COIN 2005: The New American Militarism 2008: The Limits of Power Force is “an exceedingly uncertain instrument”

Sarah SewallSarah Sewall on COIN Member of Defense Policy Board 2007: introduction to COIN FM reprint Humanitarians must engage with military (see also Montgomery McFate)

Faisal I of Iraq ( ) Son of Sherif Hussein of Mecca Early Arab nationalist : King of Iraq

Cairo Conference (1921) Growing Arab unrest British desire to reduce financial burden of empire, legitimize Middle East involvement Kurdistan

British Withdrawal Faisal’s resistance British domestic pressure to withdraw 1932: Iraqi independence

... and Return 1936 military coup (precedent) 1938: Nuri al-Said to power 1939: death of King Ghazi 1941: pro-German coup, British invasion 1948: British withdrawal

Republican Iraq 1958: republican coup, Nuri killed 1963: Baath party coup 1979: Saddam Hussein to power

Iraq under Saddam Hussein : Iran-Iraq war : Iraqi invasion of Kuwait >>> Gulf War 2003: US invasion of Iraq >>> insurgency

Lessons Value of ambiguity, shades of gray