Book contents
- Why Allies Rebel
- Why Allies Rebel
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Why Local Allies Defy or Comply with Requests from Intervening Allies
- 3 Methodology
- 4 The USA in Iraq
- 5 The USA in Afghanistan
- 6 The USA in Vietnam
- 7 India in Sri Lanka
- 8 The USSR in Afghanistan
- 9 When Small States Intervene
- 10 Conclusion
- Book part
- Bibliography
- Index
4 - The USA in Iraq
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2020
- Why Allies Rebel
- Why Allies Rebel
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Why Local Allies Defy or Comply with Requests from Intervening Allies
- 3 Methodology
- 4 The USA in Iraq
- 5 The USA in Afghanistan
- 6 The USA in Vietnam
- 7 India in Sri Lanka
- 8 The USSR in Afghanistan
- 9 When Small States Intervene
- 10 Conclusion
- Book part
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Detailing the US intervention in Iraq, this chapter provides a list of policy requests from the USA to Iraqi partners and the rate of Iraqi compliance with US requests from 2004 to 2010. Providing a summary of the US-Iraqi counterinsurgency partnership (2003–11), this chapter discusses several distinctive components of the Iraqi-US alliance, namely the imperfect and awkward transition to Iraqi sovereignty and Washington negotiating with not one, but two local governments in Iraq, namely the Shi’a-dominated government in Baghdad, and the Kurdish Regional Government in Erbil. Iraqi compliance was affected by the convergence or divergence of US and Iraqi interests, interacting with US dependency on Iraq to implement particular reforms. There are 106 US policy requests identified and detailed including working against sectarianism and corruption.
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- Why Allies RebelDefiant Local Partners in Counterinsurgency Wars, pp. 80 - 119Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020