Ahmed S Hashim

Insurgency and Counter-Insurgency in Iraq

Years after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, a loosely organized insurgency continues to target American and Coalition soldiers, as well as Iraqi security f...

Iraq’s Sunni Insurgency

From 2003 to 2008, the Sunni Arab insurgency in Iraq posed a key challenge to political stability in the country and to Coalition objectives there. Th...

Iraq

Sanctions And Beyond

The Cost of the Gulf War to the Iraqi Air Force -- Current Air Force Equipment Holdings -- Air Readiness and Warfighting Capabilities -- Land-Based Ai...

When Counterinsurgency Wins

Sri Lanka's Defeat of the Tamil Tigers

For twenty-six years, civil war tore Sri Lanka apart. Despite numerous peace talks, cease-fires, and external military and diplomatic pressure, war ra...

Iraq's Sunni Insurgency

From 2003 to 2008, the Sunni Arab insurgency in Iraq posed a key challenge to political stability in the country and to Coalition objectives there. Th...

The Caliphate at War

Operational Realities and Innovations of the Islamic State

The military victories of the Islamic State have completely overturned the geopolitical map of the Middle East. Media attention has focused almost exc...

Iranian Ways of War

From Cyrus the Great to Qassam Soleimani

This book traces the long history of Iran's wars, and the evolution of the Islamic Republic's military trajectory since 1979. Ahmed Hashim draws on Fa...