The Snake Eaters: Counterinsurgency Advisors in Combat
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You will never again hear the words 'handing it over to the Iraqis' in the same way. One of the better reflections on the war in Iraq, with enough sense of on-the-ground combat reality to hold disturbing portents for future 'small wars. It's an action-packed narrative that should be read by everyone, whether it's military advisors, the generals or politicians who send them to faraway lands and anyone interested in military stories.
As a fellow advisor, I stand alongside West and the rest of our tribe and shout that advising is fighting, first and foremost, not training. His account will be timeless.
The Snake Eaters : Counterinsurgency Advisors in Combat by Owen West (2013, Paperback)
The unique and complex experiences he witnessed are recounted in an exciting and moving style that makes The Snake Eaters an exceptional read. This book is chock full of superb lessons learned that make it required reading for all those who truly want to understand the complicated nature of today's conflicts.
“Every deploying adviser, and every American interested in how we are fighting our wars, should read Owen West's gripping and important book” (Max Boot, The . Editorial Reviews. Review. “The single most important book to come out of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.” (Dave Grossman author of On Killing and On.
Combat advisors training indigenous security forces to fight their own wars must have a key role in American defense policy in the 21st century. This book shows how it's done.
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Vivid and honest, it holds true the real lessons of counter-insurgent war and is essential reading for those who seek to understand what we demand from those we send to fight for us. Central Command "The single most important book to come out of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. West captures the courage and competence, the brilliance and bumbling, the hopes and horrors, of a generation of warriors: They are our Lawrence of Arabia, our unsung heroes who turned the tide in Iraq and show us the way to success and survival in the generations to come.
This should be required reading, inspiring and informing our military, our politicians, and the citizens of our nation as we face the challenges of the 21st Century. But, much as I love memoirs,I was not Gripping, disturbing account of American advisors in Iraq, focused on several National Guardsmen and the Iraqi soldiers jundis they trained.
The Snake Eaters
Besides being meticulously written, this book has an Owen West is a former Marine major who served two combat tours in Iraq. With no training to fall back on, this group—including a guitarist, a DEA agent, a plumber, and a Counterinsurgency Advisors in Combat. They are plunged into complex counterinsurgent warfare side by side with their Iraqi charges, soon discovering that at such close quarters moral standards are inevitably blurred.
Owen West, a third-generation U. Marine, tells the gripping, boots-on-the-ground story of the remarkable American and Iraqi troops who for two years fought the insurgency street by street and house by house in the poisonous city of Khalidiya, Iraq.
The American advisors were a ramshackle group of Army reservists, Marines, and National Guardsmen with little support or understanding from the higher ranks.