Consorts of the Caliphs is a seventh/thirteenth-century compilation of anecdotes about thirty-eight women who were, as the title suggests, consorts to those in power, most of them concubines of the early Abbasid caliphs and wives of latter-day caliphs and sultans. This slim but illuminating volume is one of the few surviving texts by Ibn al-Sa'i ......
The Aerial Campaign Against Saddam's Iraq in the 1991 Gulf War
The air campaign that opened the Gulf War in January 1991 was one of the most stunning in history. More than 100,000 sorties were launched as American and other Coalition aircraft pounded enemy targets with 88,000 tons of bombs. This book reconstructs events through the eyes of the strategists who planned it and the pilots who flew the missions.
The Islamic State has been active for less than a decade, but it has already been the subject of numerous histories and academic studies - all focusing primarily on the past. The Future of ISIS is the first major study to look ahead: what are the prospects for the Islamic State in the near term, and what can the global community, including the ......
Since the first heady months of the war in Iraq, US forces have been bogged down in a frustrating war of attrition against a largely unseen insurgency that attacks with ambushes and roadside bombs. This work offers an assessment of our intelligence failures and suggests ways of improving our ability to fight an often elusive enemy.
Winning the peace in Iraq may be a far greater challenge than winning the war. This report explores the options of reconstruction and governance in a post-Saddam transition and describes the nature and magnitude of the post-conflict requirements.
Photography, War, and the Media in Vietnam and Iraq
Stallabrass shows how photographs have become a vital weapon in the modern war: as propaganda-from close-quarters fighting to the drone's electronic vision-as well as a witness to the barbarity of events such as the My Lai massacre, the violent suppression of insurgent Fallujah or the atrocities in Abu Ghraib.
Authenticity in the Cultural Expressions of the Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988
Explores how writers, filmmakers and artists have attempted to reckon with the legacy of a devastating war The Iran-Iraq War was the longest conventional war of the 20th century. The memory of it may have faded in the wake of more recent wars in the region, but the harrowing facts remain: over one million soldiers and civilians dead, millions ......
