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	IRAQ - Gulf War 2 special Geopolitical background, military news, comment and analysis.
Geopolitical Background	Our analysis of US Global Strategy, The Project For The New American Century, Pax Americana, The Bush Doctrine, US Middle East Strategy.
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LINKS

News Resources | Perspectives | Geopolitical Links | Military Links | Maps | General Resources | Historical Links

NEWS RESOURCES

• Antiwar.com (USA)
  http://antiwar.com
• BBC Iraq War coverage (UK)
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/middle_east/2002/conflict_with_iraq/default.stm
• Guardian Unlimited Iraq War coverage (UK)
  http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/0,2759,423009,00.html
• Independent (UK)
  http://www.independent.co.uk/
• Times Online (UK)
  http://www.timesonline.co.uk
• Al Jazeera (Arabic satellite TV channel - English version)
  http://english.aljazeera.net
  This site may be difficult to obtain.
• IRAQWAR.RU (Russia)
  http://iraqwar.mirror-world.ru/tiki-index.php
  A Russian website purporting to draw on communication intercepts. Its veracity has been the subject of controversy, but it certainly makes interesting reading. Its Iraq War coverage was interestingly assessed by the Progressive Review.

PERSPECTIVES

• The Strategist And The Philosopher, 15 April 2003
  French original: http://www.lemonde.fr/article/0,5987,3230--316921-,00.html
  English translation: http://162.42.211.226/article2978.htm
  "Who are these neoconservatives...?" asks France's Le Monde.
• Global Eye - Damascus Road, 11 April 2003
  http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2003/04/11/120.html
• How Neoconservatives Conquered Washington – and Launched a War, 10 April 2003
  http://www.antiwar.com/orig/lind1.html
• Syria expects the worst, 9 April 2003
  http://atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/ED09Ak02.html
• Watch Woolsey, 8 April 2003
  http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/ED08Ak05.html
  Former head of CIA R James Woolsey has declared 'World War IV' and wants Mubarak and the Saudi monarchy to be "nervous".
• Syria now top US target for 'regime change', 8 April 2003
  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/04/08/wsyria08.xml/
• Israel Sets Sights on Iraq War Strategic Gains, 7 April 2003
  http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=focusIraqNews&storyID=2521529&fromEmail=true
• Turkey cautions US, Iraqi Kurds over oil-rich towns, 7 April 2003
  http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=1514&e=18&u=/afp/
  20030407/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_war_us_turkey_kurds_030407121219
• America Faces Israel Scenario, 6 April 2003
  http://www.exile.ru/163/163020001.html
• Neoconservative clout seen in U.S. Iraq policy, 5 April 2003
  http://www.jsonline.com/news/gen/apr03/131523.asp
• Interview with Noam Chomsky, 2 April 2003
  http://zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=15&ItemID=3369
• Rebirth of the dictator as Arab hero, 29 March 2003
  http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/03/28/1048653856603.html
  Ed O'Loughlin, The Sydney Morning Herald correspondent in Amman, describes how Iraqi resistance has turned Saddam from villain into hero and galvanised the Arab world.
• Whose war?, 24 March 2003
  http://www.amconmag.com/03_24_03/print/coverprint.html
  Leading 'Paleoconservative' Pat Buchanan examines Neocon role in fomenting war.
• Deep roots of Bush's hatred for Saddam, 16 March 2003
  http://www.observer.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12239,914925,00.html
  Cheney and Wolfowitz and the origins of 'regime change'.
• White man's burden, 3 March 2003
  http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=280279&sw=ari+shavit
  Israeli view of Neocon influence behind the war on Iraq
• The Euro Effect: The Real Reason for the War in Iraq, 8 February 2003
  http://www.evworld.com/databases/storybuilder.cfm?storyid=490
• The United States of America has gone mad, 5 January 2003
  http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,1072-543296,00.html
  John le Carré's seminal perspective.
• U.S. Had Key Role in Iraq Buildup, 30 December 2002
  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52241-2002Dec29.html
  Trade in Chemical Arms Allowed Despite Their Use on Iranians, Kurds, reveals Washington Post.
• The president's real goal in Iraq, 29 September 2002
  http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/opinion/0902/29bookman.html

GEOPOLITICAL LINKS

• The Project for the New American Century
  http://www.newamericancentury.org
  The think-tank that believes in an American Empire.
• Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources For a New Century
  RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf
  Blueprint for US military and political domination of the world.
• The Battle Against Eurasia
  http://www.kalaschnikow.net/uk/txt/2001/eussner15.html
  Russian analysis of US global strategy. Quoting from the works of American geopolitical theorist Zbigniew Brzezinski, Vladimir Maximenko, senior scientific officer of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, discusses US ambitions to overcome its peripheral strategic position by establishing a powerbase on the resource-rich Eurasian landmass.

MILITARY LINKS

• Weapons that won the war, 16 April 2003
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/2950403.stm
• Iraq: the Dog That Didn't Bark? or Was It Muzzled?, 15 April 2003
  http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=XYUOUCK5OTRZQCRBAEOCFEY?
  type=focusIraqNews&storyID=2571402
  Military analysis of Iraqi collapse
• BBC guide to urban warfare
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/middle_east/03/urban_warfare/html/default.stm
  How to attack and defend a city - plus historic battles (a good use of Macromedia Flash!).
• Saddam bets all on bloody street fight, 30 March 2003
  http://www1.iraqwar.ru/iraq-read_article.php?articleId=1063&sesid=2
  Saddam Hussein hopes to turn the battle for Baghdad into a Mesopotamian version of Stalingrad.
• G2mil - The Crusade to Baghdad, February 2002
  http://g2mil.com/Feb2003.htm
  Iraq background from interesting defence analysis site. The editor is Carlton Meyer, a former Marine Corps officer who has participated in military operations around the world. He has written dozens of articles for military magazines, but became frustrated that important issues are ignored by editors fearful of upsetting their corporate advertisers or government sponsors.
• FAS Military Analysis Network
  http://www.fas.org/man/index.html
  Comprehensive information on US military hardware.
• The United States Army
  http://www.army.mil
• Iraq terrain
  http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/iraq/terrain.htm
• Saddam's Spearhead, 26 March 2003
  http://www.albawaba.com/news/index.php3?sid=245308&lang=e&dir=news
  History of the Iraqi Republican Guard.
• 'Non-lethal' chemicals that kill
  http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/ED01Ak02.html
  US plans for use of 'non-lethal' chemical weapons.
• RPG-7 anti-tank grenade launcher
  http://www.g2mil.com/RPG.htm
• M1 Abrams tank
  http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/m1.htm
• M2 Bradley Fighting Vehicle
  http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/m2.htm
• Why Arabs Lose Wars
  http://www.strategypage.com/dls/articles2002/20020909.asp
  Interesting analysis of cultural influences on military efficiency.

MAPS

• Iraq maps at the University of Texas at Austin
  http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/iraq.html
  Of particular use are the ones of Baghdad, the Baghdad region and the Middle East.
• Distribution of Sunni and Shia Moslems
  http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/world_maps/muslim_distribution.jpg
• Distribution of Kurds
  http://www.efreedomnews.com/images/Iraq/MapKurds.jpg

GENERAL RESOURCES

• Center for Cooperative Research
  http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/wot/iraq/default.html
  A veritable goldmine of quotations and documentation.
• CIA - The World Factbook
  http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
• Iraq Antiwar Resources
  http://psychoanalystsopposewar.org/iraqresources.htm

HISTORICAL LINKS

• British Mesopotamian Campaign in World War 1
  http://www.1914-1918.net/mesopot.htm
  Britain's campaign in what is now Iraq during the First World War. 9000 Anglo-Indian troops were besieged by Ottoman Turkish forces at Kut and forced to surrender.
• The Great Iraqi Revolution 1920
  http://www.onwar.com/aced/nation/ink/iraq/firaq1920.htm
  Iraqi tribal revolt after the area was mandated to Britain by the League of Nations. (The revolt was ruthlessly suppressed, especially by a campaign of bombing).
• Our last occupation
  http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,939608,00.html
  When Britain 'policed Iraq' with terror bombing of civilians and poison gas.
• Habbaniya, 1941
  http://www.wwii1939-1941.com/campaigns/iraq1941.html
  Britain's campaign in Iraq during the Second World War.

© armed-combat.com 25 March 2003. Last updated 19 April 2003.

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