Under the Gun in Iraq: My Year Training the Iraqi Police

by Robert Cole

Jan Hogan (Notes)

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In this book Robert Cole--a retired California police officer hired by DynCorp as an international police trainer--presents a vivid account of the challenges of training the Iraqis to handle their own security. In blunt, everyday language, Cole gives the reader an unusually candid and often hair-raising glimpse into reality at the street level as he and his colleagues navigate the dangerous sectors of Baghdad, Tikrit, and Kirkuk, dodging explosions and bullets aimed at them by young, Iraqi, wannabe heroes. Cole describes situations not shown in the media: men in their sixties being hired as policemen, Iraqi detectives who extract...Read more
  • ISBN10 1615925554
  • ISBN13 9781615925551
  • Publish Date 4 May 2010 (first published 30 September 2007)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Prometheus Books
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 312
  • Language English