Sunrise Over Fallujah By Walter Dean Myers

The book Sunrises over Fallujah, by Walter Dean Myers was an accurate representation of the conflict in the Middle East. Myers incorporated real war strategies, like false intel and Improvised explosive devices (IEDs). The book was about strategy that the United States used called counterinsurgency. PTSD was a factor in this and it was brought on by everything in the war from seeing dead bodies from getting shot at.
In the book, Robin perry (Birdy) was in a unit called civil affairs, their main task was to make friends with tribe and civilians so they didn’t join or support the insurgents fighters in Iraq. This was called counterinsurgency, this was a way to bring moral back to the U.S. so it didn’t end up like the Vietnam war. “Counterinsurgency started by troops setting up outposts around the cities in Iraq, then troops would provide security for villages and tribes. They would also performed humanitarian tasks like building schools, digging wells, and providing medical care” (Hodierne, Robert). In Sunrise Over Fallujah, Birdy and the rest of his unit brought money to a village, to rebuild a school that had been blow up in a fight earlier in the war by the U.S. (Myers 99)
One tactic insurgents used to counter vehicle covey's are IED, they are made from leftover explosives and

When they started to exit the compound they saw the gate was the trigger and that if it opened all the way the bombs would have detonated. This was another tactic used by insurgents false given to civilians (Luttrell and HornFischer). Birdy and his team were sent out on patrol and were ambush by kids that were given guns because they were to scared to say no to the insurgents because if they didn’t fight they would have been killed (Myers 113). Just one more tactic the most powerful one