Iraq's Shia Warlords and Their Militias: Political and Security Challenges and Options: Political and Security Challenges and Options - Cigar, Norman
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The Strategic Studies Institute is pleased to offer this monograph as part of its continuing effort to inform discussions on dealing with the ongoing ISIS threat and security issues in Iraq. As America's de facto co-belligerents who often share the same battlespace in the fight against Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, the presence and activity of Iraq's Shia warlords and their militias have an impact on U.S. interests and policies at both the strategic and operational levels. The objective of this monograph is to provide a better understanding of the Shia militia phenomenon and to highlight…mehr

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The Strategic Studies Institute is pleased to offer this monograph as part of its continuing effort to inform discussions on dealing with the ongoing ISIS threat and security issues in Iraq. As America's de facto co-belligerents who often share the same battlespace in the fight against Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, the presence and activity of Iraq's Shia warlords and their militias have an impact on U.S. interests and policies at both the strategic and operational levels. The objective of this monograph is to provide a better understanding of the Shia militia phenomenon and to highlight the factors with which U.S. policymakers and U.S. Army planners and commanders will have to deal with in respect to operations in Iraq. Related items: Al-Qaeda: The Many Faces of an Islamist Extremist Threat, Report, June 2006 can be found here: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/052-070-07483-3 A Hard Look at Hard Power: Assessing the Defense Capabilities of Key U.S. Allies and Security Partners can be found at this link: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/008-000-01158-3?ctid=1609 The Resurgence of Al-Qaeda in Syria and Iraq can be found at this link: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/008-000-01116-8 The Saudi-Iranian Rivalry and the Future of Middle East Security can be found at this link: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/008-000-01076-5
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR NORMAN CIGAR is a Research Fellow at the Marine Corps University, Quantico, VA, from which he retired recently as Director of Regional Studies and the Minerva Research Chair. Previously, he had also taught at the Marine Corps Command and Staff College and at the Marine Corps School of Advanced Warfighting. In an earlier assignment, he spent 7 years as a senior political-military analyst in the Pentagon, where he was responsible for the Middle East in the Office of the Army's Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence, and supported the Secretary of the Army, the Chief of Staff of the Army, and Congress with intelligence. He also represented the Army on national-level intelligence issues in the interagency intelligence community. During the Gulf War, he was the Army's senior political-military intelligence staff officer on the Desert Shield/ Desert Storm Task Force. Dr. Cigar is the author of numerous works on politics and security issues dealing with the Middle East and the Balkans, and has been a consultant at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia at the Hague. He has also taught at the National Intelligence University and was a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Conflict Analysis & Resolution, George Mason University. Among his writings are Al-Qa'ida's Doctrine for Insurgency and Al-Qaida, the Tribes, and the Government. Lessons and Prospects for Iraq's Unstable Triangle. Dr. Cigar holds a Certificate from the Middle East Institute, Columbia University; an M.S.S.I. from the National Intelligence University; an M.I.A. from the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University; and a D.Phil. from Oxford (St. Antony's College) in Middle East history and Arabic. He has studied and traveled widely in the Middle East.