brigadier-general mullen and daniel green served in the entire province -- and our province but the book that they co-authored "fallujah redux" talks about a critical point called the awakening when the tribes joined the battle with al qaeda of the divorces this is dan and that is bill. [laughter] by the way. dan is a reserve officer and served as a tribal and political engagement officer for a naval special warfare unit. in fallujah 2007. he also has done duty in afghanistan as a military officer and as the civilian. his first book three years-f ago was was one year with the passion -- passion. also having a degree from george washington university focusing on counter terrorism and insurgency operations. dan is a regular here at politics & prose and we're grateful for that. and being a marine 28 years now currently with the combat development command in quantico spending two years in fallujah as the operations officer and then as the infantry battalion commander through most of 2007. fallujah has significance in the history of the iraq war to be, the center of the insurgent activity and

please join me in welcoming dan green and brigadier general mullen. [applause] i thought i would begin with why when fallujah was finally won in 2007 from our perspective, it was more of a whimper for those reasons it wasn't covered by the media and hadn't been in the books written about it but at the end of the day it is not important how you finish the war than sometimes how you start it and one of the reasons we want to collaborate is how we felt that chapter and how that u.s. forces learned a lot about the iraqi culture and thus nobody operations and counterinsurgency and there was a process of learning after its repeated we had an understanding of what was required and it may provide lessons for the future against al qaeda and other groups. so we want to write a book that captures the moment that we had the chance to experience in 2007 for six months. if we were able to put this in paper that maybe someday the future units that may have a profound similar task they are not going to read the dry after action report and probably read a memoir, that

ladies and gentlemen please join me in welcoming both dan green and brigadier general bill mullen. [applause] >> thank you very much. what i thought of begin with this sort of why bill mullen and i wanted to write this book. a lot of, how we remember war is so important and there's so many books, for example, about the battle of fallujah, and properly so. when it comes to the city of fallujah it hasn't iconic stat status. but when fallujah was finally won in 2007 from our perspective, victory wasn't a thundercloud. it was more of a whimper. partly for that reason it wasn't covered that much by the media. the word many books written about it. by the end of the day it's also more important to you finish it wasn't sometimes how you started. one of the primary reasons we wanted to club it on this book is a tells what we felt a become a sort of a final chapter of fallujah and how eventually the u.s. forces learned a lot about iraqi culture, a lot about counterinsurgency, and there's a process of learning within the military after repeated tours that eventually we had an interesting of w

brigadier-general mullen and daniel green served in the entire province -- and our province but the booky co-authored "fallujah redux" talks about a critical point called the awakening when the tribes joined the battle with al qaeda of the divorces this is dan and that is bill. [laughter] by the way. dan is a reserve officer and served as a tribal and political engagement officer for a naval special warfare unit. in fallujah 2007. he also has done duty in afghanistan as a military officer and as the civilian. his first book three years-f ago was was one year with the passion -- passion. also having a degree from george washington university focusing on counter terrorism and insurgency operations. dan is a regular here at politics & prose and we're grateful for that. and being a marine 28 years now currently with the combat development command in quantico spending two years in fallujah as the operations officer and then as the infantry battalion commander through most of 2007. fallujah has significance in the history of the iraq war to be, the center of the insurgent activity and the scen

please join me in welcoming daniel green and brigadier general william mullen. >> thank you very muchght that i would begin with why we wanted to write this book. a lot of how we remember war is so important and there are so many books about this and appropriately so. when it comes to the city of iconuja, it has an iconic status. the victory wasn't a thunderclap. partly for that reason it wasn't covered much by the media and it there hadn't been any books written about it. but it's also more important ho. you initiate a war rather than how you started it. one ofre the primary reasons weu wanted to collaborate is to tell what we felt at the time was a final chapter of falluja and how eventually the u.s. learned a lot about stability operations and counterinsurgency and it was a process of learning within the military that eventually we had an understanding of what was ton tired and providing lessons ford the future against al qaeda and other groups around the world. so we both had a chance towe experience the fair for sixmomet months and we felt like maybe oumeday future units, you're