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...
AN EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION OF THE INTERRELATEDNESS OF SELECTED MIDDLE EASTERN COUNTRIES
Journal of Economics & Economic Education Research
The Middle East has been a center of attention during the past century. The countries of the Middle East have large reserves of raw materials,...
Iran's New Iraq
Middle East Journal
The US invasion of Iraq has revolutionized the strategic architecture of the Persian Gulf in a manner that is still difficult to fully appreciate....
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
Wonders of the war
U.S. News & World Report
Offers observations on the global impact of the War in Iraq. The swift victory of American and British troops; U.S. intervention on behalf of the...
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...
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...
IRAQI EXODUS: THE IRAQ WAR AND THE MIDDLE EAST'S REFUGEE CRISIS (IRAQ) 2008
Review of Middle East Studies
A review of the DVD release of the documentary film "Iraqi Exodus: The Iraq War and the Middle East's Refugee Crisis," directed by Tania Raghmanaova...
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...
Understanding the Iraq War
School Library Journal
The article presents reviews of websites useful in helping students understand the Iraq War, including "Global Connections--The Middle East" at www....
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...
"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...
Iraq War Articles A-Z
- 'war will boost NCV bookings.'
- 2003 A YEAR IN REVIEW
- A Lady -- a Hero -- Reflects on the End of the War in Iraq
- A SOLDIER'S VIEW OF THE IRAQ WAR
- A WANT OF SKEPTICS
- A Who's Who of TV Journalists Embedded for Iraqi War
- Actions in Iraq Must Be Open to Debate
- America at War/Iraq War
- America's Iraq Legacy: Rambo Today, the Terminator Tomorrow? (Le Monde, France)
- American Public Opinion on the Iraq War
- An Iraq Album
- Analysis/ Why is the United States going to war?
- Anti-war Protests
- Australians at War--War in Iraq (Book)
- BACK TO YOU
- Bipolar Iraq
- 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
- BUSH'S 'IRAQ PROJECT'
- BUSH'S VANISHED CAPITAL
- Cakewalks and slam dunks: realities of the Iraq War
- CARTOON OF THE WEEK
- Cartoon
- Cartoons
- Causes of the Iraq War
- Christmas In Iraq
- COMMENT: WARS AND IDEAS
- COUNTRY FOCUS: IRAQ
- DANGER AT EVERY TURN
- Deadly Mistakes in a War Are Fodder for Terrorists
- Democracy isn't all it's cracked up to be
- Don't ask? Do tell
- editorial--blessed are the peacemongers
- Embed Cred
- Finding the real Iraq
- First Living Medal of Honor Recipient for Heroism in Iraq and Afghanistan
- First-Row Seat
- For Iraqi Girls, Uncertain Futures
- Forecasts: Nonfiction
- Free Iraq!
- From the Publisher
- FRONTLINE
- GAS! Saddam's Use of Chemicals
- GIANTS AND PYGMIES
- Going Through Changes
- Good News from Iraq
- Gulf War
- HELP
- High price of politics
- History Ignored
- HOME for the Hunt
- Ignorant Armies Sliding into War in Iraq (Book)
- Index
- INSIDE NCR
- Inside the New Iraq
- Interesting times
- Investigative Journalism: Covering War
- IRAN-IRAQ WAR, 1980-88
- 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 EMPTY BOOTS
- IRAQ
- Iraq
- Iraqis: Making Visible the Scars of Exile
- IS IRAQ ARABIC FOR IRELAND?
- Jordan aims to revive tourism after Iraq war
- Love in a War Zone: A Journey of Peace to Iraq
- Mainline chaplains
- Making Sense of the War in Iraq
- My Dad Went to WAR
- My War: Killing Time in Iraq
- 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
- Not sure we're safer, then why continue?
- Notes on church-state affairs: Mauritania
- Numbers from Operation Iraqi Freedom2003
- OIL AND BLOOD Saudi Arabia and Iraq
- On the defensive
- On war, sin, guilt and failed leadership
- Opinion Pulse
- Opposing the war
- Over Here: Iraq the Place vs. Iraq the Abstraction
- Paying the Price of War
- Phantoms (A Correspondence)
- Power Talks And BS Walks
- Preface
- Price tag for the Iraq war
- PRO-PEACE RALLY
- Queer and Christian in Iraq
- Readers Reflect on the Persian Gulf War
- Realist or Ideologue?
- REFLECTIONS ON WAR AND KILLING IN IRAQ
- ROOMERS OF WAR
- SETTLING IN
- Sixteen Year Old With A Mission
- SOLDIER LAID TO REST
- SOUTHERN EXPOSURE
- STREETS OF FIRE
- 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 Choice of War: The Iraq War and the Just War Tradition
- The Deadly Risks of War Journalism
- the fan
- THE FIRST FULLY TELEVISED WAR
- The Five Statements On The Iraq War That John Mccain Most Wishes He Could Do Over
- The Geography of War
- The Iraq War (Book)
- THE IRAQ WAR (Book)
- The Iraq War Begins (Poem)
- The Iraq War is over. Now what?
- The Iraq War
- The Iraq War: Strategy, Tactics, and Military Lessons/The Iraq War: A Military History (Book)
- The Media at the Tip of the Spear
- The Occupation: War and Resistance in Iraq
- the peace allergy
- The Powerful and the Powerless
- The Riot Group, Pugilist Specialist
- The Road to Baghdad
- THE WAR AGAINST SADDAM
- The war in Iraq
- 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
- Threat from depleted-uranium cannon shells
- TO DIE FOR
- TROUBLETOWN
- Two Bushes, Two Iraq Wars
- UNCOVERED: THE WAR ON IRAQ (Film)
- Uncovered: The War on Iraq (Film)
- 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
- Wages of war
- War and Peace
- War correspondent
- WAR IN AFGHANISTAN AND IRAQ
- WAR 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 Plan Iraq (Book)
- War Plan Iraq: Ten Reasons against War on Iraq (Book)
- War presents new opportunities in UK
- WAR STORY: TOTAL RECALL
- War was like a 'punch' to citizens, archbishop says
- War will cost UK trade �2 billion
- War? What War?
- Warring arguments
- WASHINGTON'S WAR: From Independence to Iraq
- We're All Romans Now
- We're Guessing Bush Will Wait For The Book On Tape
- We're out of Iraq, but will pluralism root?
- Weapons of Mass Persuasion: Marketing the War against Iraq
- What Do You Mean, Support?
- Who is really winning or losing?
- Winning the Peace in Iraq
- Women and the War
- World News
- Worshipping in Babylon
