Awakening Victory: How Iraqi Tribes and American Troops Reclaimed Al Anbar and Defeated Al-Qaeda in Iraq

In August 2006, many thought America had lost the war in Iraq, as the senior U. S. Marine Corps intelligence officer there wrote that control of al Anbar Province, the seat of the raging Sunni insurgency, was irrevocably lost to the insurgents. During that time, there were over 100 attacks per day against U. S.