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2011 Complete Guide to IEDs – Improvised Explosive Devices: Enemy Tactics, Roadside Bombs, Counter-IED Targeting, Defeat the Device, Programs, Technologies, Afghanistan, Iraq, JIEDDO

A unique, comprehensive, and up-to-date collection of government documents on the threat of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) to American and coalition troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. Congress has appropriated over billion to the Joint IED Defeat Organiztion (JIEDDO) to address the IED threat. IEDs are the enemy’s fires system – their artillery. In Iraq and Afghanistan, the enemy delivers these fires through networks that for centuries have formed the sinews of commerce for tribes and fact

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posted by admin on Feb 21

The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict

The true cost of the Iraq War is trillion—and counting—rather than the billion projected by the White House. Apart from its tragic human toll, the Iraq War will be staggeringly expensive in financial terms. This sobering study by Nobel Prize winner Joseph E. Stiglitz and Harvard professor Linda J. Bilmes casts a spotlight on expense items that have been hidden from the U.S. taxpayer, including not only big-ticket items like replacing military equipment (being used up at six t

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posted by admin on Feb 18

Time: 21 Days to Baghdad: The Inside Story of of How America Won the War Against Iraq Gulf War II in exclusive pictures and dispatchers from the battlefield

Using editorials and professional photographs, the editors of “Time Magazine” describe the main course of the attack on Iraq by the United States and Great Britain. They provide a chronicle of events from the frontlines of the conflict.

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posted by admin on Feb 16

Sniper One: On Scope and Under Siege with a Sniper Team in Iraq

Iraq, 2004. Sgt. Dan Mills and the rest of the 1st Battalion, The Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment, were supposed to be winning hearts and minds. They were soon fighting for their lives… Within hours of the battalion’s arrival in Iraq, a grenade bounced off one of their Land Rovers, rolled underneath, and detonated. The ambush marked the beginning of a full-scale firefight during which Mills killed a man with a round that removed his assailant’s head.The mission had already gone from b

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War Surgery in Afghanistan and Iraq: A Series of Cases, 2003-2007 (Textbooks of Military Medicine)

War Surgery in Afghanistan and Iraq, with a foreword by Bob Woodruff, describes the management of nearly 100 cases of acute comat trauma, conducted in the forward austere operative environment of war in the 21st century.  Presented with vivid surgical photos, the cases encompass the spectrum of trauma that characterizes war today, as well as the medical interventions constantly evolving to treat these wounds.

With the most recent cases report from cobat hospitals within months of public

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posted by admin on Feb 14

The Iraq War: Origins and Consequences

Exploring the key historical, political, and social underpinnings, James DeFronzo analyzes the impact of this defining war in the Middle East. The Iraq War explains the compelling and interrelated sociological and political forces that led to war, accounting for important aspects of the occupation, the development of the resistance, and the conflict’s influence on other nations. Beyond a systematic study of the invasion, occupation, and the future of the U.S.–Iraq relationship, DeFronzo also

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posted by admin on Feb 13

Invisible Nation: How the Kurds’ Quest for Statehood Is Shaping Iraq and the Middle East

The American invasion of Iraq has been a success – for the Kurds.  Kurdistan is an invisible nation, and the Kurds the largest ethnic group on Earth without a homeland, comprising some 25 million moderate Sunni Muslims living in the area around the borders of Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria.  Through a history dating back to biblical times, they have endured persecution and betrayal, surviving only through stubborn compromise with greater powers. They have always desired their own state, and now

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A Soldier’s Dream: Captain Travis Patriquin and the Awakening of Iraq

The incredible true story of a fallen American hero who was instrumental in turning the tide of violence in the Iraq War.

Travis Patriquin, a young Special Forces officer, had already won a Bronze Star in Afghanistan before being transferred to Iraq. An Arabic linguist, Patriquin set out to establish a crucial network with tribal leaders built on mutual trust and respect.

In 2006, Patriquin unleashed a diplomatic and cultural charm offensive upon the Sunni Arab sheiks of Anbar p

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posted by admin on Feb 13

Saber’s Edge: A Combat Medic in Ramadi, Iraq

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The National Guardsman, the citizen soldier called upon to fight for this nation in a time of war, is one of the least understood — and perhaps one of the most compelling — figures of the Iraq War. Saber’s Edge is the story of a middle-aged Vermont firefighter called upon to be a soldier in the worst place on earth — Ramadi, Iraq. In a few short weeks Thomas A. Middleton went from being a suburban dad to a combat medic traveling between platoons, filling in for other medics and engaging in so

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