Iraq
epub |eng | | Author:Patrick Cockburn

7 Saudi Arabia Tries to Pull Back A chilling five-minute film made by ISIS shows its fighters stopping three large trucks on what looks like the main highway linking Syria ...
( Category: Iraq March 16,2015 )
epub |eng | 2009-03-03 | Author:Dawisha, Adeed

CONTESTED IDENTITIES IN THE NATIONALIST ERA The first communiqué announcing the demise of the Qasim regime spoke of enhancing national unity, restoring freedoms and establishing the rule of law, but ...
( Category: History & Theory March 4,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-15 | Author:Brian Turner [Turner, Brian]

76 Who can say what made Papa raise his left arm on a December morning in the Solomon Islands? What was it that caught his attention? The Marine patrol stopped, ...
( Category: Military February 13,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:George Packer

8 OCCUPIED IRAQIS “WE MUST GO OUT OF IRAQ! We must travel! We must see America! Can you give us hope?” A young woman named Aseel and one of her ...
( Category: Iraq War January 29,2015 )
epub | | 2010-06-27 | Author:The Real Bravo Two Zero [Zero, The Real Bravo Two]

silent killing. They were not SAS soldiers. Fighting knives and unarmed combat may be part of the public myth of what Special Forces are about, but the reality is more ...
( Category: Iraq November 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-11-04 | Author:Annia Ciezadlo

A few days later Mohamad appeared at the door of our bedroom. I was sitting at the desk, finishing an article about the evils of Lebanon’s sectarian political system. “My ...
( Category: Lebanon November 5,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2005-10-17 | Author:Con Coughlin [Coughlin, Con]

By the summer of 1982 the glory Saddam had hoped to acquire from the “second Qadisiya” was fast becoming a distant memory. The brutal reversal in Iraq’s fortunes in a ...
( Category: Political June 6,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2012-03-31 | Author:Paul McGeough

Of all the savage stories of the twenty-month-long Iraqi insurgency, the story of how a young disabled boy was turned into a human bomb is one of the cruellest. His ...
( Category: Iraq May 7,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-14 | Author:Robert M Gates [Robert M Gates]

MY NEW AGENDA AT DEFENSE By 2009, I had come to believe that the paradigms of both conventional and unconventional war weren’t adequate anymore, as the most likely future conflicts ...
( Category: Iraq War April 13,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:John Keegan

6 The American War History repeats itself, though no two historians agree quite how. Those who reported the First Gulf War of 1990–91 had an almost eerie impression of events ...
( Category: International & World Politics April 2,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-05-24 | Author:Jessica Goodell

Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) quickly became the favorite weapon of the insurgents. They were easy to make, transport, conceal, and detonate. And they were effective. (Photo courtesy of Bill Thompson) ...
( Category: Veterans March 28,2014 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Lambeth, Benjamin S. [Lambeth, Benjamin S.]

President George W. Bush flanked by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Under Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz at the Pentagon on March 25, 2003, as he announces a $74.7 ...
( Category: Aviation March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-06-23 | Author:John C. McManus

See the Hill, Take the Hill: The Horror of 875 The tension was palpable, jolting, like an electrical current. Here and there, morning fog hung in the valleys. For three ...
( Category: Iraq March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-04-21 | Author:Nir Rosen [Rosen, Nir]

Though Gentile was skeptical that COIN was a cure-all, he knew that he could not kill his way out of the problems he was facing in the district either, so ...
( Category: Middle Eastern March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-04-19 | Author:James Loney [Loney, James]

JANUARY 20 DAY 56 The voices—loud, excited, running into each other—move to the bottom of the stairway. It sounds like a party. The voices subside. Footsteps in the foyer. Junior ...
( Category: Canadian March 26,2014 )