ABSTRACT
This chapter starts with the analysis of the revolt in Mesopotamia against the British occupation just after the First World War and carries the story till the US invasion and occupation of Iraq in the new millennium. Change–continuity in the nature of insurgency in Mesopotamia over the last century will be elucidated. The focus in this chapter is on a comparative evaluation of British COIN in the early twentieth century with US COIN in the early twenty-first century. The nature of US COIN as to whether it is brutal or population centric is assessed by making a case study of Iraq in the aftermath of the Second Gulf War.
