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The future of Marjah, after the invasion and occupation

By Larry Kummer, Editor / 3 Comments / 23 February 2010 8 December 2011

Summary: We occupy Marjah amidst promises to rebuild and bring good government. Just as we did in Fallujah — which was in fact a simple punitive strike. Typical counter-insurgency tactics, as practiced for millenia. We’ll see if Marjah is different. It’s a test-case. Is COIN real, or just a cover for variations on the trinity of US counter-insurgency methods since …

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Visiting Iraq’s “Don’s” from the Inside of an Armored BMW

By Larry Kummer, Editor / 14 Comments / 5 March 2009 3 June 2010

This is an important article for many reasons. It gives a ground-level view of a city in Iraq, and illustrates important dynamics at work there. Perhaps most important, it describes a key element of our success in Iraq (such as it is). Not from force of arms, sophisticated tactics, or futuristic technology. We fielded infantry …

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The cost of the Iraq War

By Larry Kummer, Editor / 2 Comments / 27 May 2008 3 June 2010

The media seldom discusses the cost of the Iraq War. The cost was great, is still being paid, and mostly paid by the Iraq people. Here is a brief accounting. This is a only an excerpt; the full article provides one of the best summaries of the war I have seen — from their perspective — and is very …

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Two views of Fallujah – which tells us more about the future?

By Larry Kummer, Editor / 2 Comments / 23 April 2008 7 August 2008

One consistent oddity of the Iraq War is that we read two streams of reports about it, so different that they might be of different wars. Here are two such. One from a mainstream media source. One from Michael Totten, one of the best-known war-bloggers. Both are balanced, Totten’s especially so, but they give us alternative …

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Another day, more fascinating news about Iraq!

By Larry Kummer, Editor / 3 Comments / 26 March 2008 20 February 2009

I. “In Fallujah, Peace Through Brute Strength“, Washington Post (24 March 2008) — “Iraqi City’s Fragile Security Flows From Hussein-Era Tactics” Matthew Yglesias comments: As he lays it out, the successes are very real — the city was once held by the insurgency, and now it’s basically under control. Specifically, it’s under the control of …

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