Why Was the Iraqi Resistance to the Coalition Invasion So Weak?
Publication Date: January 2007
Publisher(s): RAND Corporation
Author(s): Stephen T. Hosmer
Funder(s): RAND Corporation
Funder(s): RAND Corporation
Topic: Politics (Insurgency, and counterinsurgency)
Coverage: Iraq
Abstract:
Research brief summarizes an analysis of information derived from interviews with former senior Iraqi officials to determine factors contributing to the rapid collapse of Iraqi resistance to the Coalition invasion of Iraq in March and April 2003.