With the insertion of a significant international coalition into the sovereign nation of Iraq in order to counter and/or eliminate a growing enemy presence, this research study captures the essence of the phenomenon from the perspective of actual U.S. military participants during such combat ...
"All of our security forces from the army, police and the Hashd Shaabi (paramilitary units) are securing the Iraqi borders, including the Iraqi-Syrian border, and these forces have not been bombarded by airstrikes or any other attacks," the Iraqi Joint Operations Command (JOC) said in a s...
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Also found in: Wikipedia. military convoy A land or maritime convoy that is controlled and reported as a military unit. A maritime convoy can consist of any combination of merchant ships, auxiliaries, or other military units. Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. US Department of Defense...
OIF (Operation Iraqi Freedom) -- The combat operation that Veterans may have deployed to in support of the War on Terror where the theater of operations was in Iraq. Over the Hill -- Missing in action or someone who officially has gone missing from their post. ...
Schoenfeld AJ: The combat experience of military surgical assets in Iraq and Afghanistan: a historical review. Am J Surg 2012; 204(3): 377-83.Schoenfeld AJ. The combat experience of military surgical assets in Iraq and Afghanistan: a historical review. Am J Surg 2012;204:377-83....
institutions – have analyzed the dynamics of military operations through fieldwork in recent military operations like Iraq (Ender,2009), Afghanistan (King,2011,2019; Resteigne,2012), and Lebanon (Resteigne,2012; Ruffa,2014). The recent research led to a major publication in military sociology,...
After the success of relief efforts to the displaced Kurdish population in northern Iraq following the Gulf War, many in the US military and the international relief community saw military forces as critical partners in the response to future complex emergencies (CEs). However, successes in subseque...
[63,64].Table 4presents data demonstrating the acceleration in the average combustion of fuel per American soldier daily from the Second World War to the Vietnam War and to the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. In 2015 the American agency responsible for military energy dealt with 14 million gallons ...
According to a security source, the parade was held in the morning hours to avoid the scorching weather of Iraq's summer as temperatures could reach to 50 degrees Celsius at midday. Most of the local and international media were not invited to cover the parade for security reasons, the sourc...