U.S. Marines in Iraq, 2003: Anthology and Annotated Bibliography

The nature of any military anthology is necessarily influenced by the type of operations being conducted, the time available for historical accounts to accumulate, and the perspectives of the contributing authors. In this volume, we draw from a variety of resources (briefings, award recommendations, press interviews, media reports, and journal articles) to characterize a series of increasingly complex civil and military operations that occurred between March and September 2003. These accounts were generated shortly after the fact by embedded journalists, staff officers, and commanders, who reveal a wide range of experiences that extend from combat on the frontlines to planning in theater command
centers.