PBS Frontline – An outstanding documentary on the inside story of the war within the Pentagon: Donald Rumsfeld’s battle to assert civilian control and remake the way America fights???all the while conducting wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

This is the transcript of the show. In future days I’ll be linking to the extensive interviews conducted with each participant in the show. The transcript gives a broad overview of the topic. The interviews give fascinating detail of the conflict with Iraq.
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Washington Post – Thomas Ricks on what comes next for the insurgency in Iraq after Fallujah.
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New Yorker – Jon Lee Anderson talks to The New Yorkerís Amy Davidson about the situation on the ground, Falluja, and what the Presidential election means for Iraq.
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New York Times – Robert Kaplan on how the US should be pragmatic in its attempts to introduce democracy into Iraq.
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New Yorker – The United Statesí de-Baathification program fuelled the insurgency. Is it too late for Bush to change course?
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New York Times – Thomas Friedman asks 6 questions about Iraq.
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New Yorker – Paul Wolfowitz defends his war.
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Washington Post – Facing an entrenched insurgency in Iraq whose ranks have grown significantly over the past year, the Pentagon has devised a new military strategy aimed at driving a wedge between various factions.
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Washington Post – An excellent analysis of how the war in Iraq has negatively impacted the war on terror; and how the war on terror is changing over time.
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New York Times – In Part 3 of “Catastrophic Success,” Michael Gordon shows how the U.S.-led occupation authority’s disbanding of the Iraqi Army over a year ago cast a shadow over the occupation.

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New York Times – In the second article in his series “Catastrophic Success,” Michael Gordon show how much of the information provided by the C.I.A. to those prosecuting the war and planning the occupation proved wrong.
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New York Times – Michael Gordon describes how many military officers and civilian officials say the Bush administration’s miscalculations in Iraq cost the U.S. valuable momentum.

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New York Times – The perspective of Empire applied to Iraq – the British Army’s view of the current situation on the ground in Iraq.
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Washington Post – An interesting look at what went wrong in Fallujah, from the Washington Post’s recently returned chief correspondent in Iraq, who was in Iraq for the last 2 years.
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Defense and the National Interest – William Lind on why training more Iraqi security forces will not solve Iraq’s problems.
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Virginian Pilot – Retired Marine General Paul Van Ripper, who played the enemy in the controversial Millenium Challenge wargame in 2002, criticizes the war plan for Iraq.
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Washington Post – Thomas Ricks states that a growing number of career professionals within national security agencies believe that the situation in Iraq is much worse, and the path to success much more tenuous, than is being expressed in public by top administration officials.
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New Yorker – What Kirkuk’s struggles to reverse Saddam’s ethnic cleansing signals for the future of Iraq.
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Foriegn Affairs – Although the early U.S. blunders in the occupation of Iraq are well known, their consequences are just now becoming clear. The Bush administration was never willing to commit the resources necessary to secure the country and did not make the most of the resources it had. U.S. officials did get a number of things right, but they never understood-or even listened to-the country they were seeking to rebuild. As a result, the democratic future of Iraq now hangs in the balance.

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Daily Telegraph – John Keegan analyses the current situation in Iraq.
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Washington Post – Thomas Ricks on how the fighting in Iraq appears to be intensifying rather than waning.
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Defense and the National Interest – An interesting article in which the author argues that the Iraqi insurgents are deliberately targeting Iraq’s oil infrastructure because they think it is the United States’ key vulnerabilityówhich it would be, if the United States’ goal is really to control the oil.

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Defense and the National Interest – William Lind on how Muqtada al-Sadr won, even though he lost.
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Washington Post – Thomas Ricks with the Pentagon’s analysis of the sitution in Najaf, now that the fighting is over.
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Washington Post – Thomas Ricks looks at the dramatic leadership failures revealed by two investigations into the abuse of Iraqi detainees.
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