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Friday, February, 07, 2014

Surge: An Insider’s Account of the Controversial Strategy that Changed the Outcome of the Iraq War, New America, Washington

Surge

An Insider’s Account of the Controversial Strategy that Changed the Outcome of the Iraq War

 

  

 

Friday, February 7, 2014

12:15 p.m. – 1:45 p.m.  

New America Foundation

1899 L Street NW, Suite 400
Washington, DC 20036

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In 2007, President George W. Bush announced his plan to send more than 20,000 additional troops into Iraq, a highly contested campaign designed to stem out-of-control violence in the country and to alter the course of a war on the verge of failure. It was a controversial strategy during a time of widespread public dissatisfaction with the administration and the situation in Iraq. As Gen. David Petraeus’s executive officer, Col. Peter R. Mansoor saw the impacts of the surge firsthand.

 

In his new book, Surge: My Journey with General David Petraeus and the Remaking of the Iraq War, this respected military historian provides the first insider’s view of the dramatic change in strategy in Iraq and of how counterinsurgency operations played out on the ground in 2007 and 2008. Using newly declassified primary source documents, unpublished manuscripts, interviews, and published sources, along with his personal recollections of the events in question, Mansoor explains how Bush, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker, Petraeus, and other U.S. and Iraqi political and military leaders shaped the surge from the center of the maelstrom in Baghdad and Washington.

 

The New America Foundation is pleased to welcome Col. Mansoor for a discussion about the surge strategy, its implementation, and new insights on a war whose consequences continue to reverberate through the region.

 

Copies of Mansoor’s book will be available for purchase by cash, check, or credit card.

Join the conversation online using #IraqSurge and following @NatSecNAF. 

If you are unable to join us in person, please tune in to our live webcast of the event. No signup is required to view the streaming video.   

 

 

Featured Speakers

Peter R. Mansoor

Colonel, U.S. Army (Retired)

Author, Surge: My Journey with General David Petraeus and the Remaking of the Iraq War

General Raymond E. Mason, Jr. Chair of Military History, Ohio State University

 

Joel Rayburn

Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Army
Research Fellow, National Defense University

 

Peter Bergen

Director, National Security Program, New America Foundation

 

 

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For questions, contact Liana Simonds at New America at (202) 735-2829 orsimonds@newamerica.org.

 

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