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...offers to negotiate that even when the two-week-old standoff between his Mahdi Army and combined U.S. and Iraqi-government forces seemed about to end, it wasn't clear if it had. Did he really intend to quit the shrine? Or was he actually planning to resume combat, as he later urged his followers, against the enemy forces still poised outside? As one of his spokesmen, Sheik Ahmed al-Shebani, put it, "Tomorrow I don't know what will happen. There could be war. There could be peace...
...army that can take on insurgents on its own, in the hopes that Iraqis desperate for security will offer native forces the kind of support they have withheld from the occupiers. Yet even U.S. generals agree there is no military solution to the violence. "We're really good at combat operations, killing and breaking things," says Major General Pete Chiarelli, commander of the 1st Cavalry, the Army division responsible for policing Baghdad. "But if all I am doing is this, I will make more enemies than I kill." It's a vicious circle, he says, and the worst-case scenario...
Like other frontline soldiers in Iraq, the men of Task Force 1/9--of which Charlie Company, of the National Guard's 1st Battalion, 153rd Infantry Regiment, is a part--face the risk of almost perpetual combat. Among the company's 119 men, dozens of Purple Hearts have been awarded for injuries suffered in battle. "Exceptional things are happening out there, bits and pieces of extraordinary bravery," says Foley. At the same time, Foley sees these streets stripping his young charges of their youth. "People outside have no idea of the overall effect of this. Eighteen-year-old kids are having...
Before 10,000 cheering military veterans in Cincinnati last week, President Bush declared he was bringing up to 70,000 U.S. troops home from bases in Europe and Asia over the coming decade. "We'll take advantage of 21st century military technologies to rapidly deploy increased combat power," he told the Veterans of Foreign Wars. His plan drew fire from his Democratic opponent, John Kerry, who said Bush's plan shortchanges both U.S. allies and the war on terrorism. But strategic objections aside, the plan raises more immediate questions about those 21st century military technologies...
With U.S. combat deaths approaching 600 since major combat operations ended in Iraq nearly 16 months ago (in contrast to only 109 before the fall of Baghdad), the Pentagon has decided it's time to get some help in figuring out how long the postwar fighting might last. The Army quietly released a contract announcement last week that it was seeking to calculate "the possible intensity and duration of a guerrilla war in Iraq." The Army wants to award a contract to the Dupuy Institute, a Washington-area think tank, by the end of the month. The institute will...