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How We Lost the Peace in Iraq

... the end result would have been much different. In June of 2003, I hired around 50 local nationals (Sunni) to provide security for ... attention to the article released in the last week here in SWJ concerning the rural vs urban insurgency concerning Diylal province--in ...

Journal Article - Dec 30 2011 - 6:26pm - 38 comments

Iran's Response to a U.S. Attack

... The Washington Institute for Near East Policy. June 2008.  Cordesman, Anthony; Toukan,Abdullah; Wilner, Alexander. ... for War.” Council on Foreign Relations. March 23, 2007. www.cfr.org (accessed on Oct 21, 2011) Shebonti, Ray ... Many thoughts, some tangential but related.... Here as SWJ, commenter Outlaw 09 writes, Syria boils down to regional power ...

Journal Article - Feb 17 2012 - 6:16am - 16 comments

The Success of the Surge

... less than 115, and for 41 consecutive days, from May 4 to June 14, the 31-day moving sum was over 100. One way to put that number into ... deployed. At the peak of the fighting, from May 16 to May 23, the 31-day moving sum of hostile fatalities was at least 119. The 31-day ...

Blog post - Dec 25 2007 - 5:13am - 3 comments - 0 attachments