The Iraq War

A Military History

Williamson Murray

Major General Robert H. Scales, Jr.

    Prologue: The Gulf War, 1991

    1. The Origins of War

    2. The Opposing Sides

    3. The Ground Campaign in Southern Iraq

    4. The British War in the South

    5. The Air War

    6. The End of the Campaign

    7. Military and Political Implications

    Weapons of War

    Notes

    Acknowledgments and Sources

    Index

  • Cover: The Iraq War
  • A photo of the author

photos of Williamson Murray (top), Major General Robert H. Scales, Jr. (below)

Williamson Murray is Senior Fellow at the Institute for Defense Analysis, Washington, D.C.

Major General Robert H. Scales, Jr., U.S. Army (Retired), brings perspective as head of the army's team of Gulf War historians and chief author of Certain Victory, the army's official postwar analysis of that conflict. He has also served as Commandant of the Army War College and, most recently, is author of Yellow Smoke: The Future of Land Warfare for America's Military.