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	<title>Defense Strategy Review &#187; Iraq</title>
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		<title>Quarterly Report on Iraq Reconstruction to Congress</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Oct 2011 18:25:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction. October 2011. http://www.sigir.mil/publications/quarterlyreports/October2011.html]]></description>
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		<title>The Statistical Irrelevance of American SIGACT Data: Iraq Surge Analysis Reveals Reality</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 00:55:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joshua Thiel. Small Wars Journal, 12 April 2011. http://smallwarsjournal.com/blog/journal/docs-temp/732-thiel1.pdf Excerpt: Maneuver warfare at its core is a mechanistic endeavor and fits with a corresponding necessity of top-down hierarchies. Conversely, counterinsurgency is a more ambiguous environment that varies in its complexity and context; it is the chess match of war. It is different in every locale [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stop the Iraq madness!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:09:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nir Rosen. The Best Defense, 23 February 2010. http://ricks.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/02/23/nir_rosen_stop_the_iraq_madness Excerpt: Iraqis on the street are no longer scared of rival militias so much, or of being exterminated and they no longer have as much support for the religious parties. Maliki is still perceived by many to be not very sectarian and not very religious, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An alternative to COIN: It’s time to adapt our security strategy to leverage America’s conventional strengths</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bernard I. Finel. Armed Froces Journal International, February 2010. http://www.afji.com/2010/02/4387134 Excerpt: A fundamental challenge in devising a strategy for the use of American military power is that the world has literally never seen anything like it. The U.S. today has military capabilities at least equal to the rest of the world combined. There is virtually [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Majority Staff Memorandum prepared for Hearing on Afghanistan Contracts, Subcommittee on Contracting Oversight, 16 December 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 02:25:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Majority Staff, Subcommittee on Contracting Oversight, 16 December 2009. Hosted on the Commonwealth Institute website. http://www.comw.org/qdr/fulltext/2009-12-16StaffMemo.pdf Excerpt: [The] number of Defense Department Contractors in Afghanistan May reach 160,000. There are currently 104,000 Defense Department contractors working in Afghanistan. The increase in troops may require an additional 56,000 Defense Department contractors, bringing the total number of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Department of Defense Contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan: Background and Analysis</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:14:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Moshe Schwartz. Congressional Research Service, 14 December 2009. http://www.scribd.com/doc/24124212/CRS-Contractors-Study-12-09]]></description>
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		<title>Why they hate us?: How many Muslims has the U.S. killed in the past 30 years?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:56:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stephen M. Walt. ForeignPolicy.com, 30 November 2009. http://walt.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/11/30/why_they_hate_us_ii_how_many_muslims_has_the_us_killed_in_the_past_30_years Excerpt: Yet if you really want to know &#8220;why they hate us,&#8221; &#8230; the fact remains that the United States has killed a very large number of Arab or Muslim individuals over the past three decades. Editor&#8217;s Comment: And no amount of &#8220;public diplomacy&#8221; or &#8220;American narrative&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Cost of War</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:54:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Philip Giraldi. antiwar.com, 26 November 2009. http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2009/11/25/the-cost-of-war/ Excerpt: Why are these wars so expensive? It goes back to Napoleon: logistics. US bases in Iraq are supplied by a 344-mile road running north from huge depots in Kuwait and by another artery running south from Turkey, both of which require convoys of trucks with armed guards [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are American Muslims A Threat?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:04:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[response by Michael Brenner to question posed by James Kitfield on National Journal Expert Blog, 19 November 2009. http://security.nationaljournal.com/2009/11/are-american-muslims-a-threat.php#1393085 Excerpt: &#8230;all it would take to restore sanity is some slight reflection on our dismal performance everywhere we have tried our hand at manipulation in the Greater Middle East since 9/11. We have been consistently arrogant, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iraq on the Edge</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:28:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joost R. Hiltermann. New York Review of Books, 19 November 2009. http://www.nybooks.com/articles/23371 Excerpt: Festering unresolved for years, the Kirkuk conflict has started to contaminate Baghdad politics to the point of disabling Maliki&#8217;s government. It has already complicated efforts to create a law governing petroleum and natural gas, for example, and it may well hold up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Building on 2 blunders: the dubious case for counterinsurgency</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:47:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stephen M. Walt. Foreign Policy, 16 November 2009. http://walt.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/11/16/building_on_2_blunders_the_dubious_case_for_counterinsurgency Editor&#8217;s Comment Walt makes a fundamental strategic point. The Bush wars involved operational and grand strategic errors, so why institutionalize a shift in defense planning that in effect has the U.S. military prepare for more strategic errors by our leadership? Why not opt to correct the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>High Costs Weigh on Troop Debate for Afghan War</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 21:17:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christopher Drew. New York Times, 14 November 2009. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/15/us/politics/15cost.html Excerpt: &#8230;even if Mr. Obama opts for a lower troop commitment, Afghanistan’s new costs could wash out the projected $26 billion expected to be saved in 2010 from withdrawing troops from Iraq. And the overall military budget could rise to as much as $734 billion, or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inouye balks at war funding fix</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:08:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Rogers. Politico, 10 November 2009. http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1109/29357.html Excerpts: Under almost all scenarios before Obama, billions more than the contingency funds requested in his 2010 budget will be needed&#8230; Most estimates of how much more the Pentagon may need now run in the range of $30 billion to $40 billion.]]></description>
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		<title>An Ugly Peace: What changed in Iraq</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:39:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nir Rosen. Boston Review, November/December 2009. http://www.bostonreview.net/BR34.6/rosen.php Excerpt: After the March 2008 Charge of the Knights, when Shias in Iraqi security forces began to fight Shia militias, there was no longer a Shia bloc. This opened up the possibility of cross-sectarian alliances between Shia and Sunni nationalists, all opposed to the occupation. Maliki’s decision to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From Iraq, Lessons for the Next War</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:30:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alissa J. Rubin. New York Times. 31 October 2009. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/01/weekinreview/01RUBIN.html]]></description>
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		<title>Chimera of Victory</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:10:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gian P. Gentile. New York Times, 31 October 2009. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/31/opinion/31iht-edgentile.html?_r=1 Excerpt: History shows that occupation by foreign armies with the intent of changing occupied societies does not work and ends up costing considerable blood and treasure. The notion that if only an army gets a few more troops, with different and better generals, then within [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AfPak-Iraq: Wrong War, Wrong Thinking. The United States faces mounting problems in the three leading conflict-zones of Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:26:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paul Rogers. Open Democracy, 29 October 2009. Hosted on the Commondreams website. http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/03-6 Excerpt: If there is a way ahead, it rests not on short-term calculations about troop numbers but on a larger reassessment by the Barack Obama administration of the entire US security posture in the middle east and southwest Asia. This will have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Timeline and Associated Costs for Withdrawal of US Forces from Iraq</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:23:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For CBO report see: http://www.comw.org/wordpress/dsr/withdrawal-of-u-s-forces-from-iraq-possible-timelines-and-estimated-costs]]></description>
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		<title>Mixed Signals From Pentagon, President On Iraq Withdrawal</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:23:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Steve Hynd. News Hoggers, 22 October 2009. http://www.newshoggers.com/blog/2009/10/mixed-signals-from-pentagon-president-on-iraq-withdrawal.html]]></description>
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		<title>Kilcullen&#8217;s Long War</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 02:40:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tom Hayden. The Nation, 14 October 2009. http://www.thenation.com/doc/20091102/hayden/single]]></description>
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		<title>Withdrawal of U.S. Forces from Iraq: Possible Timelines and Estimated Costs</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:12:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CBO, 07 October 2009. http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/105xx/doc10523/10-07-TierneyTroopWithdrawal.pdf]]></description>
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		<title>Wars stretch Army and Marine Corps particularly thin</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:59:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Katherine McIntire Peters. Government Executive, 28 September 2009. http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=43682&#038;dcn=todaysnews]]></description>
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		<title>Counterinsurgency Leadership in Afghanistan, Iraq and Beyond: a conversation with Gen. Petraeus</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:19:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Petraeus and Bernard Trainor. Marine Corps University, 23 September 2009. http://www.mcu.usmc.mil/COIN%20Symposium%20Documents/Transcript%20-%20GEN%20Petraeus.pdf]]></description>
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		<title>What does the political science literature on civil wars really say about Iraq?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 02:01:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marc Lynch. The New Foreign Policy.com, 07 September 2009. http://lynch.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/09/07/civil_wars_literature_and_iraq]]></description>
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		<title>The Limits Of Force</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 12:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chuck Hagel. The Washington Post, 03 September 2009. Posted on the Atlantic Council Website. http://acus.org/new_atlanticist/limits-force]]></description>
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