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The New Battle for Iraq
Amir Taheri recently had a commentary in the New York Post which shouldn’t be passed over. The next general election is three months away, but Iraq is already in high gear for what promises to be a hard-fought campaign over the future of the ne...
The MEK, Iran and Iraq
Tom Ricks has a depressing and saddening post on the influence of Iran in Iraq relying on a first hand account by an Army officer. Ghaz, as you may know, is mainly Shia in the northern half and Sunni in the southern half. We closed the last JSS in Gh...
Remembrances of Fallujah #1
Hmmm … that Marine second from the left at 5:35 looks very familiar....
Iraq’s Ambivalence About The American Military
The New York Times has an informative analysis about the multiple personalities within Iraq concerning the continued presence of the U.S. military. Iraqi military officials often refer to their American counterparts as “the friends,” a circumlocu...
Should U.S. Troops Return to Iraqi Cities?
Omar at Iraq The Model had previously observed that Iran’s IRG was most likely behind the recent bombing attacks in Baghdad (or so it was reported by Azzaman). Mohammed updates us with news that Maliki is blaming the Syrian administration for...
Baghdad Under Attack as Maliki Re-Evaluates Security Plans
It was a bloody day in Baghdad. Iraqis gather as fire fighters respond to a massive bomb attack near the Iraqi Foreign Ministry in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2009. A series of explosions struck the Iraqi capital Wednesday, targeting primari...
Leaving Iraq
A recent review of the U.S. efforts in Iraq has yielded quite a negative assessment. The following is taken from the text of a memorandum from Col. Timothy R. Reese, Chief, Baghdad Operations Command Advisory Team, MND-B, Baghdad, Iraq. ” ...
Redux on U.S. Troop Restrictions in Iraq
Remember in Iraqi Commanders Move to Restrict U.S. Troops Under SOFA we said: The notion that the U.S. would be restricted to logistical operations only during certain hours is outrageous, and a manifest increase in risk to the force. When the fund...
House Arrest for U.S. Forces in Iraq
Prior: Iraqi Commanders Move to Restrict U.S. Troops Under SOFA U.S. forces in Iraq may as well be under house arrest according to one Iraqi Colonel. The Iraqi military has turned down requests from American forces to move unescorted through Baghdad ...
Iraqi Commanders Move to Restrict U.S. Troops Under SOFA
Report: The Iraqi government has moved to sharply restrict the movement and activities of U.S. forces in a new reading of a six-month-old U.S.-Iraqi security agreement that has startled American commanders and raised concerns about the safety of thei...
Obama’s Shame: Rewarding Iranian Terror
It is no secret that the Iranians continue to supply weapons to Iraqi Shi’a insurgents, and even deploy their own Quds to perpetrate violence inside Iraq. From the June 2009 issue of the Sentinel at the Combatting Terrorism Center at West Poi...
Leaving Fallujah Better?
Graeme Wood at The Atlantic pens a piece that questions what Fallujah will be like when the Marines leave Anbar. A dispatch by Rod Nordland of the New York Times asks whether the violence in Fallujah — lately viewed as a model of an Anbar city ...
Boss Mongo and TCJ on Various Subjects
We have been fairly diligent to propose (and keep proposing) that the high value target campaign in Afghanistan be stopped, Special Operations Forces (SOF) be reattached to infantry, and SOF participate in the softer side of counterinsurgency while i...
The Violence Belongs to Iraq Now
There are seasons in any campaign, in any counterinsurgency effort. The Army Chief of Staff may have claimed that U.S. forces could be in Iraq for ten more years, but they will mainly serve to ensure that Iraq is a protectorate of the U.S. Americ...
Betraying the Sons of Iraq
Professor W Andrew Terrill, Research Professor of National Security Affairs, Strategic Studies Institute, US Army War College, has a good history of the Sons of Iraq program, including the near and present danger that Iraq faces by...
Final British Withdrawal from Basra
The Captain’s Journal has provided extensive coverage and commentary of the British misadventure in Basra, and without repeating much of what we have said over the past couple of years, it bears mentioning that the U.K. has turned over security...
