Iraq War
High quality essays written by experts on the Iraq War are presented. Essays discuss the history of the Iraq War, the debate over how long to keep troops in Iraq, and the pros and cons of war. Major events and turning points in the war are discussed, and keywords and definitions are also provided.
History of Iraq and the Iraq War
In 1979, Saddam Hussein assumed power and ruled Iraq tyrannically until his downfall in 2003. In 1990, Iraqi forces invaded the neighboring country of Kuwait in a bid to...
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An Overview of the War in Iraq
The initial phase of the conflict leading up to regime change met with little resistance but the subsequent rebuilding phase and institution of democracy have been marked by...
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Current Events in Iraq
Although Sunnis make up approximately 90 percent of the world's Muslims, Shiites hold the majority in Iraq. As a Sunni, the former dictator Saddam Hussein ensured that Sunni...
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Editor's Choice
IRAQ IS NO VIETNAM. BUT VIETNAM HOLDS LESSONS FOR IRAQ.
National Journal
Compares the Vietnam war in the 1960s and the twentieth-century U.S.-Iraq war from a military point of view. Lessons of the Vietnam war for Iraq;...
Making Sense of the War in Iraq.
Public Management (00333611)
Relates the story of the author in a war in Iraq. Difficulties experienced in Karbala; Commendation for the bravery of the author; Views on Iraq...
Re-Liberators.
National Review
The author explains why he believes the surge of military troops in Iraq has helped to stabilize the country. The author reports about his experience...
DERELICT OF DUTY: THE AMERICAN NEWS MEDIA, TERRORISM, AND THE WAR IN IRAQ.
Marquette Law Review
The article focuses on the role of new media during conflicts in democratic countries. It highlights several normative ideals for media. It discusses...
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FORCE EVERYONE TO THE TABLE
New Republic
The article argues that the U. S. must use threats of withdrawal and the terrible conditions in Iraq to bully to Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds to the...
The Bad New Era
Wilson Quarterly
This article summarizes an essay by Richard Haass in the November-December issue of "Foreign Affairs." Haass argues that the Iraq War has cost the...
In the Middle East, A New World
American Enterprise
Discusses the success of the foreign policy of the U.S. toward the Middle East, particularly its war in Iraq to help establish Middle Eastern...
Liberty for Strangers: American Power and the Predicament of the Arabs
American Spectator
The article discusses the U.S.' diplomatic role in the Middle East. The article talks about U.S. President George W. Bush's push for democratic...
On a roll
MEED: Middle East Economic Digest
Focuses on the construction industry of the Middle East as of September 2003. Impact of the Iraqi War and oil prices on the industry; Prospect of an...
Going private
MEED: Middle East Economic Digest
Comments on the economic impact of privatization of state holdings and the greater use of build-operate-transfer projects in the Middle East....
Separate Ways
New Republic
In the first weekend of the war in Iraq, a little-noticed statement from the U.S. State Department promised that the U.S. still took "the sovereignty...
Kill 'Em All Conservatives
American Conservative
The article reports that the U.S. conservatives, who supported the Iraq War, are now getting frustrated with the prolonged and complex violence in...
Letters to the Editor
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
Presents letters to the editor, on various topics like, Iraq war, Israel military strength, Israel-Palestine conflict, and others, published in the...
"Bring the Troops Home," Say Times Square Protesters
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
Outraged by the deaths of hundreds of Iraqi civilians and 44 U.S. and coalition troops during the first week of April 2004, the New York chapter of...
Other People's Mail
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
The article presents several letters related to the politics and government in the Middle East. The media are lamenting prime minister Ariel Sharon's...
THE IRAQ EFFECT: The Middle East After the Iraq War
Military Review
A review of the book "The Iraq Effect: The Middle East After the Iraq War," by Frederic Wehrey, Dalia Dassa Kaye, Jessica Watkins, Jeffrey Martini,...
The Ebb and Flow of Global Liberty
American Spectator
The article presents an assessment of the democracy-building process in Iraq, and of global threats to democracy. Acknowledging the sectarian...
The Iraq Effect. The Middle East After the Iraq War
Middle East Quarterly
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As War Rages, Some Authors Already Victorious
Book Publishing Report
Reports on books that have benefited from the 2003 Iraq war. 'Saddam: King of Terror,' by Con Coughlin; 'The New Iraq: Rebuilding the Country for...
Iraq War Articles A-Z
- 'war will boost NCV bookings.'
- 2003 A YEAR IN REVIEW
- A Carrier at War: On Board the USS Kitty Hawk in the Iraq War
- A JUST WAR Force was justified & restrained
- A petchem industry in Iraq?
- A war on children
- A Who's Who of TV Journalists Embedded for Iraqi War
- Actions in Iraq Must Be Open to Debate
- After victory
- Against War with Iraq: An Anti-War Primer (Book)
- All disquiet on the home front
- America at War/Iraq War
- An Iraq Album
- Analysis/ Why is the United States going to war?
- Anti-war Protests
- Apocalypse now
- Australians at War--War in Iraq (Book)
- BACK TO YOU
- Band of Sisters: American Women at War in Iraq
- Basics about the Persian Gulf
- Blind into Baghdad. America's War in Iraq
- Blind into Baghdad: America's War in Iraq
- BLOGS of WAR
- Book of Revelations
- Book reviews: Social sciences
- Bookings in Ireland start to bounce back
- BRITISH JOURNALIST KILLED IN BAGHDAD
- Bush leads 'peaceful people' to war
- BUSH'S 'IRAQ PROJECT'
- BUSH'S VANISHED CAPITAL
- Calamities of war
- CAN WE FIGHT IRAQ AND HUNT AL QAEDA?
- CARTOON OF THE WEEK
- Causes of the Iraq War
- COLLATERAL DAMAGE
- COMMENT: WARS AND IDEAS
- COUNTRY FOCUS: IRAQ
- Democracy isn't all it's cracked up to be
- Ear On...America at War
- Embed Cred
- Embedded: The Media at War in Iraq (Book)
- Ending the Iraq War: A Primer
- Excerpts from a Journal for English 183
- Finding the real Iraq
- For Iraqi Girls, Uncertain Futures
- Forecasts: Nonfiction
- From the Publisher
- Future looks bleak for Iraq's fragile environment
- Going Through Changes
- Gulf War
- HELP
- High price of politics
- History Ignored
- HOME for the Hunt
- INSIDE NCR
- Inside the New Iraq
- INTELLIGENCE REPORT: AMERICA AT WAR
- Interesting times
- Investigative Journalism: Covering War
- IRAQ BETWEEN THE TWO WORLD WARS (Book)
- Iraq Debacle
- IRAQ IS NO VIETNAM. BUT VIETNAM HOLDS LESSONS FOR IRAQ
- Iraq Since the Gulf War: Prospects for Democracy
- Iraq UNCOVERED
- Iraq War (Book)
- Iraq War Anniversary
- Iraq war would hit Jordan tourism hard
- Iraq War
- Iraq's conduct of the Gulf crisis: A critical assessment
- IRAQ'S EMPTY BOOTS
- IRAQ
- Iraq
- Iraq: Eyewitness to War, A Photojournalist's Diary
- Iraqi Kurds: Hour of Power?
- Iraqis: Making Visible the Scars of Exile
- IS IRAQ ARABIC FOR IRELAND?
- IT directors say war with Iraq is unlikely to affect IT budgets
- Jordan aims to revive tourism after Iraq war
- Just Wars and Rumors of Wars
- LIFE DURING WARTIME
- Mainline chaplains
- Making Sense of the War in Iraq
- My Dad Went to WAR
- My Life in Combat
- My War: Killing Time in Iraq
- Nervous neighbours
- NEWS UNDER FIRE
- Nimo's War, Emma's War: Making Feminist Sense of the Iraq War
- NIMO'S WAR, EMMA'S WAR: MAKING FEMINIST SENSOR OF THE IRAQ WAR
- Notes on church-state affairs: Mauritania
- Notes on the Antiwar Movement
- Numbers from Operation Iraqi Freedom2003
- Occupational hazards
- Off to War: From Rural Arkansas to Iraq
- OIL AND BLOOD Saudi Arabia and Iraq
- On the defensive
- Opinion Pulse
- Opposing the war
- Over Here: Iraq the Place vs. Iraq the Abstraction
- Paying the Price of War
- Price tag for the Iraq war
- PRO-PEACE RALLY
- Readers Reflect on the Persian Gulf War
- REAL CONSERVATISM
- REFLECTIONS ON WAR AND KILLING IN IRAQ
- Sitting on Bayonets
- SOLDIER LAID TO REST
- SOUTHERN EXPOSURE
- Still Feeling Sorry For Saddam Hussein
- Summary of United Nations resolutions concerning Iraq and the Persian Gulf crisis
- Surviving Baghdad: A Paratrooper's Perspective
- Tales from the front
- TEST YOURSELF
- That's My Story
- The Deadly Risks of War Journalism
- The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War Without End
- THE FIRST FULLY TELEVISED WAR
- The Geography of War
- The Iran-Iraq War (Book)
- THE IRAN-IRAQ WAR
- The Iraq War (Book)
- The Iraq War Begins (Poem)
- The Iraq War
- The Iraq War: A Military History (Book)
- the issue at hand
- The Media at the Tip of the Spear
- the peace allergy
- The Road to Baghdad
- The Strongest Tribe: War, Politics, and the Endgame in Iraq
- THE THIRTEENTH HUNDRED DAYS: THE QUIZ
- The War Against Iraq (Book Review)
- The War Against Iraq (Book)
- THE WAR AGAINST SADDAM
- The War in Iraq
- The War in Iraq: A Photo History (Book)
- The War Was Never About Oil Profits
- This is worse than war
- This isn't Vietnam
- This time, a winnable war
- Threat from depleted-uranium cannon shells
- TO DIE FOR
- TROUBLETOWN
- Uncovered: The Whole Truth About the Iraq War (Film)
- Untitled
- Upfront QUIZ 2
- Upfront QUIZ 4
- Vets Aren't Crazy--War Is
- Visual Testimony About War
- Voices from Iraq: After the War
- War against the Saddamites
- War and Peace
- War correspondent
- War Focuses Efforts
- War Journal: My Five Years in Iraq
- War of Necessity, War of Choice: A Memoir of Two Iraq Wars
- WAR OF NECESSITY, WAR OF CHOICE: A MEMOIR OF TWO IRAQ WARS
- WAR OF NECESSITY, WAR OF CHOICE: A Memoir of Two Iraq Wars
- WAR ON IRAQ (Book)
- War On Two Fronts: An Infantry Commander's War in Iraq and the Pentagon
- War Plan Iraq: Ten Reasons against War on Iraq (Book)
- WAR STORY: TOTAL RECALL
- War will cost UK trade �2 billion
- Warring arguments
- We're All Romans Now
- We're out of Iraq, but will pluralism root?
- Weapons of Mass Persuasion: Marketing the War against Iraq
- What War Looks Like
- Winning the Peace in Iraq
- Winning the War of Words: Selling the War on Terror from Afghanistan to Iraq
- Women and the War
- World War II reporters differ from today's -- they were adults
- Worshipping in Babylon
