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Takedown: The 3rd Infantry Division's Twenty-One Day Assault on Baghdad

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Over time the impression has grown that the 2003 invasion of Iraq met with little resistance and that, with few exceptions, the Iraqi army simply melted away. As this book clearly shows, nothing could be further from the truth. In its drive to capture Baghdad, the U.S. Army's 3rd Infantry Division was in nearly constant combat for twenty-one days. While Americans were watching Saddam's statue being torn down on TV, a brigade of the 3rd ID was on the verge of being overrun by Iraqi Republican Guard units trying to escape north. Told to hold two bridges in his sector, a brigade commander had to blow up one of them because he did not have the combat power to hold it. The company commander holding the other bridge was so hard pressed that he called on the artillery to fire their final protective fires a command made only when a unit is in mortal danger and one that had not been given since Vietnam. Every one of the division's armored vehicles was hit by rockets some taking more than a dozen hits and the fighting was so fierce at times that entire battalions ran out of ammunition. Nevertheless, when the fighting was finally over, the 3rd ID had destroyed two Iraqi Regular Army divisions and three divisions of the much vaunted Republican Guard. Takedown tells the little-known story of what happened to the 3rd ID during its struggle to win Baghdad, a campaign that some call one of the most vicious in American military history. To offer this firsthand account, Jim Lacey, a former Time magazine reporter embedded with the 1st Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division, draws on extensive interviews that he conducted with the American soldiers involved as well as access to personal papers and war memoirs. This story is also enriched through his extensive use of interview transcripts of senior Iraqi army officers along with their personal written recollections. From the Kuwaiti border to the streets of Baghdad, these dramatic eyewitness descriptions of what went on give readers an accurate look at the brutal engagements in which the division fought for its life. In making use of such a wealth of primary source material, Lacey has succeeded in writing a fast paced narrative of the conflict, backed up by verifiable facts, that shows how modern wars are really fought.
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"Jim Lacey and Takedown represents a major and successful effort to fill in one of the major blank spots in our knowledge of Operation Iraqi Freedom. This is a superb examination of the combat operations of the 3rd Infantry Division, as it conducted one of the most spectacular operations in American military history in late March and early April 2003. Takedown is a brilliant account of modern combat and battle leadership." --Williamson Murray, author of The Past and Prologue: The Importance of History to the Military Profession"

"Perhaps the only fact beyond dispute about America's current engagement in Iraq is that the campaigns of March 2003 were executed with a brilliance seldom seen in the annals of war. Jim Lacey gives us an unforgettable account of those weeks as experienced by the officers and soldiers of the Third Infantry Division the very tip of the spear that pierced the heart of Saddam's regime. By turns harrowing and heroic, their story is one that we dare not forget as we struggle to come to terms with the unanticipated consequences of victory." --Fred Anderson, author of Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766"

"In a time of angst about the 'quagmire' in Iraq, it's refreshing to read an unvarnished history of April 2003, when U.S. troops stormed to Baghdad in an astonishing three weeks. Author Jim Lacey calls it 'one of the most remarkable military achievements in history.' Indeed it was." --The Wall Street Journal

About the Author

Jim Lacey is a retired U.S. Army infantry officer who works as a military analyst for the Institute for Defense Analyses. He is coauthor of The Iraqi Perspectives Report: Saddam's Senior Leadership on Operation Iraqi Freedom from the Official U.S. Joint Forces Command Report, published by the Naval Institute Press in 2006, and editor of the book Fresh from the Fight, a collection of essays on the war in Iraq.

During the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Lacey worked for Time magazine as an embedded journalist and was with the 101st Airborne Division during the march to Baghdad. He has been published in more than a dozen major magazines and has written numerous articles and editorials on international and military affairs in many of the nation's leading newspapers. He lives in northern Virginia.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Naval Institute Press
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 31, 2013
  • Edition ‏ : ‎ First Edition
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1591144582
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1591144588
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.1 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.75 x 9 inches
  • Best Sellers Rank: #2,555,539 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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    4.7 out of 5 stars (52)

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James Lacey is the Professor of Strategy at the Marine Corps War College. He also holds the Horner Chair of War Studies at Marine Corps University. Prior to taking this position he was a widely published senior analyst at the Institute for Defense Analyses in Washington, D.C. Lacey served over a dozen years on active duty as an infantry officer and is retired from the Army Reserves.

Lacey is the author of "Moment of Battle" (Bantam), "The First Clash" (Bantam), "Takedown: the 3rd Infantry Division’s 21-Day Assault on Baghdad" (Naval Institute Press), "Pershing" (Palgrave-Macmillan) "The Making of Peace" (Cambridge University Press) and "The Making of Grand Strategy" (Cambridge University Press) and "Keep from all Thoughtful Men" (USNI, 2010) He also has a trilogy of works on global terrorism, published early in 2008 (Naval Institute Press).

His three most recent books are "Great Strategic Rivalries" (Oxford, 2017), "The Washington War," dealing with the relationship between FDR, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the War Cabinet during WW II Bantam, 2019), and "Gods of War," dealing with those times in history when great captains have fought each other, published in May 2020. His book, "Rome: A Strategy for Empire," is forthcoming (Oxford, JAN 2022).

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Customers find the book highly readable and appreciate its detailed account of the invasion, particularly praising its excellent tactical overview. The content receives positive feedback, with one customer noting how it explains concepts in a simple and absorbing way.
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Customers find the book highly readable and engaging, with one mentioning they couldn't put it down.
Great read and very detailed account of the invasion of Iraw....Read more
...Highly recommended to anyone interested in the Iraq war!Read more
A good read, however the book is really a reprint of the Army after action report....Read more
...tactics develop on the battlefield from a unit perspective, you will enjoy this book. And it's a quick read! I was not dissapointed.Read more
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Customers appreciate the book's detailed approach, particularly its excellent tactical overview and first-hand accounts of the invasion of Iraq.
...This book provides a detailed and gripping overview of the battles fought by all the key elements of 3rd ID, and properly showcases 3-7 CAV's key...Read more
...But, about a quarter of the way in it really picked up and added new info. I esp. liked the Iraqi perspective....Read more
...of units and facts that eventually detract from what is a superb tactical account of the division's bold masterstroke to topple Saddam Hussein's...Read more
...The stories of individual tank crews are covered as well as the thoughts of generals....Read more
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Customers appreciate the book's content, with reviews noting its straightforward and absorbing style, and one mentioning how it provides insight into the challenges and accomplishments of the 3rd Infantry Division's assault on Baghdad.
...all of the Marne Division's finest in this book, which is concise, to the point, and an extremely fast read....Read more
...With the help of numerous maps, Lacey explains in a simple but absorbing way all the operational and tactical aspects of the 21-day drive to Baghdad...Read more
...It shows how speed was achieved, and puts into perspective the great challenges and accomplishments of one divisions rampage through Iraq, and how...Read more
After reading Cobra II, I found the beginning chapters of the book not too helpful....Read more
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