Ally to Adversary, by Rick Francona

Ally to Adversary: An Eyewitness Account of Iraq's Fall from Grace, by Rick Francona. From the Naval Institute Press comes a new book on U.S.- Iraqi relations written by a Gulf war veteran and NMIA member. The book provides an insider's perspective of the foreign policy implications of our cooperative relationship with Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war and how that relationship later deteriorated into Desert Storm. The author traveled extensively through Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war, later served as Gen Schwarzkopf's lead interpreter during Desert Storm, and became a principal author of DoD's after-action report to Congress on the conduct of the Gulf war.