The following documents have not yet been put in to their proper sub-categories. Until then, they will be listed here. Avoiding a Second Bay of Pigs: Lessons Relevant to the Liberation of Iraq [22 Pages] Lessons Learned: The Iran-Iraq War [134 Pages] – Political, strategic and tactical aspects of the war Lessons Learned by the Saudi Arabian National Guard [39 Pages] – Suggestions, advice and tips for successful desert tactical operations Measuring the Security and Stability in Iraq [48 Pages] Senate Intelligence Report (521 Pages) Senate Intelligence Report – Conclusions Only (30 Pages) Soviet Intelligence on Iraq (4 Pages) Strategic…
Author: John Greenewald
Background Jessica Dawn Lynch (born April 26, 1983) is a former Private First Class (PFC) in the United States Army Quartermaster Corps. Lynch served in Iraq during the 2003 invasion by U.S. and allied forces. On March 23, 2003 she was injured and captured by Iraqi forces but was recovered on April 1 by U.S. special operations forces, with the incident subsequently receiving considerable news coverage.Lynch, along with major media outlets, has since accused the U.S. government of embellishing the story as part of the Pentagon’s propaganda effort. The following was obtained under the FOIA from the DoD. It was…
Operation Southern Watch was an operation conducted by Joint Task Force Southwest Asia (JTF-SWA) with the mission of monitoring and controlling airspace south of the 32nd Parallel (extended to the 33rd Parallel in 1996) in Iraq, following the 1991 Gulf War until the 2003 invasion of Iraq. A Report Bibliography, Keyword: “Operation Southern Watch” from the DTIC (Word Document [.doc]) [22 Pages, 261 KB] – Responsive documents from a request I filed from the DIA. The Effect of Operational Deployments on Army Reserve Component Attrition Rates and Its Strategic Implications[55 Pages, 205 KB] – This monograph will assess…
The first major foreign crisis for the United States after the end of the Cold War presented itself in August 1990. Saddam Hussein, the dictator of Iraq, ordered his army across the border into tiny Kuwait. This was no ordinary act of aggression. Iraq’s army was well equipped. The United States had provided massive military aid to Iraq during their eight-year war with Iran, giving them the fourth largest army in the world. Kuwait was a major supplier of oil to the United States. The Iraqi takeover posed an immediate threat to neighboring Saudi Arabia, another major exporter of…
“Operation Enduring Freedom” (OEF) is the official name used by the U.S. government for the War in Afghanistan, together with a number of smaller military actions, under the umbrella of the global “War on Terror” (GWOT). The operation was originally called “Operation Infinite Justice” (often misquoted as “Operation Ultimate Justice”), but as similar phrases have been used by adherents of several religions as an exclusive description of God, it is believed to have been changed to avoid offense to Muslims, who are the majority religion in Afghanistan. U.S. President George W. Bush’s remark that “this crusade, this war on terrorism,…