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Tuesday's two-hour convoy - which wound through more than four miles of bullet- and bomb-ridden city decimated by the very worst of the war - celebrated the life of Ramadi's favorite son, Sheik Sattar Abu Risha, the romantic icon of the region's sudden turn against al-Qaeda...
Beyond that, the notion of sealing troops in metal cocoons is contrary to the Pentagon's notion of counter-insurgency warfare, which requires soldiers and Marines to mingle with the local population they are trying to win over. Winning hearts and minds in Iraq demands "close contact with the local...
Long exposure to action movies has helped audiences become their own Crime Scene experts, appraising the kick of an explosion, the roll of a vehicle after it's been blown up. Connoisseurs will savor an insurgent attack on the FBI team's van, a shootout between the Americans and the...
If you're wondering about journalistic impartiality, I should say that not all the violence in Redacted is the soldiers'. After the rape-murder, one of the squad is kidnapped by an insurgent group; in a video on the group's website, we see the soldier condemned to death, his...
Few expect any significant change in the overall war strategy when the White House releases Petraeus' report on the surge by Sept. 15. But with the war likely to continue more or less apace, there is even more pressure on the Pentagon to clean up its oversight. Not only is...