It is uncontroversial that the invasion and occupation of Iraq involved the following errors: the misinterpretation of intelligence; the underestimation of the number of troops requisite for law and order; the disbanding of the Iraqi army; and indiscriminate debaathification of the civil service. ...
Monday marks 20 years since the United States invaded Iraq. After the fall of Saddam Hussein, the rise of ISIS, and more, what does the country look like today? Charlie D'Agata, who has covered the region for decades, reports from Baghdad.Mar 18, 2023 ...
Since his emergence following the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, al-Zarqawi had become Iraq's most wanted militant, as notorious as Osama bin Laden, to whom he swore allegiance in 2004. The United States put a $25 million bounty on al-Zarqawi, the same as bin Laden. Since the tip ...
in the midst of the Iraq war, he titled his acceptance speech “Art, Truth and Politics,” and used it to shine a light on this diabolical aspect of U.S. war-making.
Most notably, in 1983 President Reagan ordered the invasion of the Caribbean island of Grenada (格林纳达),ignoring the fact that it was a member of the British Commonwealth. Yet the disagreement did not last long, as was shown in 1986, when Britain allowed the United States to use its ...
Abu Ghraib prison, large prison complex in Abū Ghurayb, Baghdad governorate, Iraq. During the presidency of Saddam Hussein (1979–2003), it became notorious for the detention of a massive number of political prisoners and the use of torture. It was reop
and topple the U.S.-led world order than Iran. On virtually every contemporary American national security concern — including the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Chinese threats against Taiwan, nuclear proliferation, and cyberwarfare — Tehran defines its own interests in opposition to the United ...
invasion of Iraq, 15 C-17 Globemaster III transports took off from Aviano Air Base in Italy. The Globemasters were packed to the gills with an airborne task force of the 173rd Airborne Brigade on what would be the first U.S. Army combat parachute drop since the 1989 invasion of Panama....
So far, Israel clearly has the upper hand militarily, which could make it less willing to compromise. But it’s unlikely to achieve its goal of halting Hezbollah rocket fire with air power alone, and a threatened ground invasion of Lebanon poses major risks. After nearly a y...
When I was a senior in high school, that same Joe Biden supported the disastrous invasion of Iraq,” he continued. Vance painted politicians in Washington as the “ruling class” and reflected on how addiction had devastated the community he grew up in. At one point he introduced h...