Background – Strategy – Edward Luttwak reviews the war plan so far.
- Daily Telegraph: Dawn of a new kind of war
Background – Information Warfare – James Dunnigan on how the US is conducting information warfare against Iraq.
- StrategyPage: PsyWar Versus Shock and Awe
Background – History – A review of the earlier British invasion of Iraq.
- The New Yorker: Letter from Baghdad – Invasions
US Navy – How the Navy has prevented the Iraqi’s from mining Umn Qasr.
- Virginian Pilot: Navy seizes boats carrying mines in Iraqi port
US Navy – With the pilots aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln.
- Washington Post: ‘We Had to Drive Right Into It’
US Navy – Aboard the USS Harry S. Truman.
- Virginian Pilot: Norfolk-based Truman joins allied forces in invasion
US Marines – The importance of amphibious ready groups in the post-Vietnam era, and what it bodes for the future.
- Marine Corps Gazette: Amphibious Forces: The ë9-1-1í Number Has Never Been Busier! So Now What?