In partnership with the Department of Military History at the Command and General Staff College and Army University Press
The upcoming 20th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq offers us the opportunity to look at the inception of the conflict—from the months leading up to the war through the end of 2003—from a historical perspective. This symposium will examine the conflict from a variety of angles and seek to answer a diverse set of questions: Why did the Bush administration choose to go to war? How did the invasion impact the American political landscape? How does the invasion of Iraq fit within the larger Global War on Terror? What were the diplomatic ramifications of the invasion for the United States on the international stage? How well did the coalition work together? How did the military achieve its initial mission and defeat the Iraqi military? Why and how was that victory lost? How did civilian and military leadership interact in the months leading up to and directly following the invasion? Why are the initial months of Operation Iraqi Freedom historically significant?
Lunch will be provided for those who register below.
Participants
Terry Anderson, Texas A&M University. Author of Bush’s Wars.
Beth Bailey, University of Kansas. Co-editor of Understanding the U.S. Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Robert Brigham, Vassar College. Author of Iraq, Vietnam, and the Limits of American Power.
David Cotter, Command and General Staff College
David Fitzgerald, University College Cork. Author of Learning to Forget: US Army Counterinsurgency Doctrine and Practice from Vietnam to Iraq.
Gregory Fontenot, co-author of the first volume of On Point.
Marjorie Galelli, Yale University
Angela Riotto, Command and General Staff College. Director and writer of the documentary “OIF : the fight for Baghdad.”
Timothy Sayle, University of Toronto. Co-editor of The Last Card: Inside George W. Bush’s Decision to Surge in Iraq
Joseph Stieb, US Naval War College. Author of The Regime Change Consensus: Iraq in American Politics, 1990-2003.
Kate Tietzen-Wisdom, US Army Center for Military History
William “Scott” Wallace, retired four-star Army General who commanded V Corps during the invasion of Iraq.
Donald Wright, Army University Press. Co-author of On Point II.
