Washington Post – An interesting assessment of the legacy of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.
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Category Archives: Iraq
Iraq – Newsmaker: Peter Pace
PBS NewsHour – An interview with Marine General Peter Pace, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
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Iraq – 2,000 Dead, in Context
New York Times – Victor Davis Hanson puts the 2000th US casualty in Iraq in perspective.
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Iraq – The Fall of the Warrior King
New York Times Magazine – Nathan Sassaman was a star quarterback at West Point and a celebrated officer who carried his idealism with him to Iraq. But a nasty war has a way of undoing a good man.
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Iraq – A Soldier's Story
Wall Street Journal – An interview with General David Petraeus on the current state of the Iraqi Army.
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Iraq – Interview With Pamela Hess, UPI Defense Correspondent
Q and A – Transcript of an excellent 1 hour long insightful interview conducted by Brian Lamb of UPI Defense Correspondent Pamela Hess, who has reported extensively from Iraq, on what the situation is really like there.
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Iraq – Lt. Gen. David Petraeus speaks at Princeton
TigerHawk – A brief given by Lt. General David Petraeus at Princeton that summarizes his views on Iraq. General Petraeus was the commander of the 101st Airborne Division during the invasion of Iraq and subsequently was in charge of training the new Iraqi Army. Interesting insights from a brilliant soldier???
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Iraq – Occupational Hazards
Foreign Affairs – Two postmortems on the Iraq occupation lambaste Washington for handling the job poorly. But doing much better would be so difficult that perhaps the bar should be raised for going to war in the first place.
Iraq – U.S. Lowers Sights On What Can Be Achieved in Iraq
Washington Post – The Bush administration is significantly lowering expectations of what can be achieved in Iraq, recognizing that the United States will have to settle for far less progress than originally envisioned during the transition due to end in four months, according to U.S. officials in Washington and Baghdad.
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Iraq – Lessons for an Exit Strategy
Washington Post – Henry Kissinger draws some parallels between the exit strategy used in Vietnam and the exit strategy being discussed for Iraq.
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Iraq – Death of an idealist
The Times – An interesting look at how badly the British occupation of Basra and southern Iraq has gone, and what will be the likely long term consequences???
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Iraq – U.S. military members say civilians' role in war small
New York Times – The Bush administration’s rallying call that America is a nation at war is increasingly ringing hollow to men and women in uniform, who argue in frustration that America is not a nation at war, but a nation with only its military at war.
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Iraq – Two years on, the echoes of Vietnam are getting louder
Guardian – Military historian Max Hasting’s view of the situation on the ground in Iraq today.
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Iraq – 'Enemy on enemy' fire signals split among insurgents in Iraq
New York Times – US Marines have been interested to see various factions in the Iraqi insurgency start to fight each other???
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Iraq – Magnet for Iraq Insurgents Is a Crucial Test of New U.S. Strategy
Three interesting views of the current situation in Iraq, and how close the country is to devolving into a militia-led civil war.
First, from Colonel H.L. McMaster and the Third Armored Cavalry Regiment. New York Times – Magnet for Iraq Insurgents Is a Crucial Test of New U.S. Strategy.
Second, from David Ignatius. Washington Post – Saving Project Iraq.
Third, from Thomas Friedman. New York Times – Let’s Talk About Iraq.
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Iraq – A Little Learning
New Yorker – The Pentagon’s Douglas Feith looks back on the case for invading Iraq.
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Iraq – The Way of the Commandos
New York Times Magazine – Peter Maass on the “El-Salvadorization of Iraq:” The campaign against the insurgency in Iraq is increasingly being waged by an elite regiment of Sunni-led fighters. Their leader is a former general in Saddam Hussein’s army, their American adviser is a veteran of the Central American campaigns of the 1980’s and they sometimes play by the rules of the old Iraq. Is the war getting dirtier?
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Iraq – Are Iraq's Insurgents Losing?
Defense and the National Interest – William Lind analyses whether the insurgents are slowly losing in Iraq.
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Iraq – Pentagon Blamed for Lack of Postwar Planning in Iraq
Washington Post – Thomas Ricks on a study of U.S. military operations in Iraq, prepared for Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld by the RAND corporation, sharply criticizes Pentagon attempts to plan for the aftermath of the U.S.-led invasion two years ago, saying stabilization and reconstruction issues “were addressed only very generally” and “no planning was undertaken to ensure the security of the Iraqi people.”
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Iraq – More Newspeak
Defense and the National Interest – William Lind comments on the role of militias in Iraq.
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Iraq – Two Years Later, Iraq War Drains Military
Washington Post – An analysis of the effect that the war in Iraq is having on the US military, on the second anniversary of its commencement.
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Iraq – Twists Make Predictions A Dubious Bet in Iraq War
Washington Post – An analysis of the situation in Iraq on the second anniversary of the beginning of the war.
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Iraq – Insurgents Wage Precise Attacks on Baghdad Fuel
New York Times – An excellent look at the Fourth Generation Warfare campaign being waged by the insurgency in Iraq against the country’s infrastructure.
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Iraq – Terror's New Frontier
New York Post – Ralph Peters on how the city of Mosul is the key to defeating the Iraqi insurgency.
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Iraq – A Man of the Shadows
New Yorker – The difficult past and the uncertain future of Iyad Allawi, Iraq’s interim Prime Minister.
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