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...Obvious question: Can the militia-riddled Iraqi army and police pull off such a subtle and complicated strategy, even with ample U.S. assistance? Probable answer: No...but what's the alternative? Only the Iraqis themselves can do the door-to-door work necessary to secure Baghdad-and if Baghdad can't be secured, the war is surely lost. "For this to have any chance of success, the Army has to make some basic changes," Krepinevich says. "Our current goal is to support each Iraqi battalion with an 11-person team of U.S. advisers. The proper number is more like...
...possible no such strategy exists. But last week there was a glimmer of a shred of a possibility: Operation Forward Together, the Iraqi-led effort to secure Baghdad-finally!-using classic counterinsurgency methods. "What they're trying to do is take back the city, sector by sector," says Andrew Krepinevich, director of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments and a leading expert on counterinsurgency (coin is the inevitable military acronym). You might well ask, What is coin? Let me oversimplify: coin is the military equivalent of the police strategies that mayors like New York City's Rudy Giuliani used...
...tens of thousands of Americans and Iraqis patrol the streets of Baghdad as part of a new security plan, the insurgency has demonstrated it is still capable of well-planned and deadly attacks. And among its latest victims are two U.S. soldiers earlier kidnapped by a Qaeda-linked group on Friday...
...military announced Tuesday that the bodies of Private First Class Thomas Lowell Tucker, 25, of Madras, Oregon, and Private First Class Kristian Menchaca, 23, of Houston, Texas, had been found in an area south of Baghdad. An Iraqi defense ministry official claimed that the appearance of the bodies suggested the captives had been tortured before they were killed...
...Tucker and Menchaca were reported missing after an attack on a U.S. checkpoint in Yusufiyah, south of Baghdad, that killed Specialist David J. Babineau, 25, of Springfield, Massachusetts. The attack came as the U.S. and the Iraqi government had appeared to seize the initiative in recent weeks: Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki named ministers to the country's top security posts; al Qaeda leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was killed by an American air strike; and a series of raids in and around Baghdad preceded the high-profile deployment of tens of thousands of troops in Baghdad...