Al Sahawa - The Awakening. Volume 4: Al Anbar Province, Area of Operations Topeka, Ramadi
Abstract
The objective of the Anbar Awakening project was to create an unclassified resource for trainers and educators. It is presented in multimedia to accommodate different teaching and learning styles. The project presents the Awakening movements phases from the development of the insurgency in 2003 to the Coalitions transfer of responsibility for Al Anbar to the Iraqis in 2008. In addition, it offers analysis and lessons, many of which are transferrable to current and future conflicts. Most popular narratives of the Anbar Awakening associate the beginning of the movement with a 14 September 2006 proclamation by Sheik Abdul Sattar Albu-Risha where he coined the term Al Sahawa. This project contends that there was a robust connection in terms of events and relationships from Fallujah in 2004 to Al Qaim in 2005 to the Hadithah-Hit Corridor in 2006, to Ramadi in 2006/2007 and back to Fallujah in 2007/2008; that connection was based on Iraqi culture and societal networks that Americans were not part of. This document, Volume IV, addresses events in the Ramadi district of the Coalitions Area of Operations (AO) Topeka. This was a fight made more difficult because insurgents were forced into the Ramadi area from the west/northwest and east.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Aug 01, 2016
- Accession Number
- AD1019772
Entities
People
- Carolyn Leonard
- Dale Alford
- David B. Graves
- Jennifer Goodman
- John Frost
- Mary Hawkins
- Matt Coursey
- Matthew Dobson
- Thomas Jones
- Tracy King
- William Knarr
Organizations
- Institute for Defense Analyses