WASHINGTON'S WAR From Inependence to Iraq

WASHINGTON'S WAR From Independence to Iraq. Michael Rose. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London. 2007 First edition ISBN 9780297846987 212pp Hardback. SIGNED COPY This mint unread copy is bound in cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine, tight, white, bright and square. The unclipped dust wrapper is also in mint condition. In 1775, George Washington took command of a ragbag army of American insurgents and took on the might of the British Army. Through a brilliant campaign of ambush and indirect attacks, he finally succeeded in defeating the greatest military power in the world, and won America its independence. Today it is the USA that is the world's dominant superpower. When they entered Iraq in 2003 they made the same mistakes that the British made over 200 years ago: they underestimated the popular hostility against them, and believed they could fight a widespread insurgence using troops trained for conventional warfare. They are beginning to learn, as the British did, that sheer military power is not enough. As a former Director of UK Special Forces and Commander of the United Nations Protection Force in Bosnia, Michael Rose is uniquely experienced in counter-insurgency warfare. In this hard-hitting book he explains the principles of guerrilla warfare as used in the American War of Independence, and shows how those same principles have been adopted by the insurgents in Iraq. This copy has been signed by the author on the title page with no other dedication. This copy is from the library of the late General Sir Edward Burgess K.C.B., O.B.E. Royal Artillery. Ref S4. …