lst Bn 1st Brigade Iraqi Intervention Force
4th Bn 1st Brigade Iraqi Intervention Force
REGIMENTAL COMBAT TEAM 7
Co C (-), 2nd Combat Engineer Battalion
Co B (-), MP, 4th FSSG
2nd Force Reconnaissance Co (-)
44th Engineer Bn, 2nd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division (Army)
Co C (REIN), 2nd AA Bn
1st Bn (REIN)/8th Marines
H&S Co (REIN)
Det, 2nd Intel Bn, II MEF (HET)
Det Comm Co, HQ Bn, 2nd MARDIV
Det HQ Battery, 11th Marines
Co A,B,C
Weapons Co
1st Platoon, Truck Co, HQ Bn, 2nd MARDIV
1st Platoon, Co C, 2nd Combat Engineer Bn, 2nd MARDIV
2nd Bn, 1st Brigade, Iraqi Intervention Force
Emergency Response Unit (Iraqi–Ministry of Interior)
Battalion Landing Team (1/3) (from 31st MEU)
1st Bn/3rd Marines (REIN)
H&S Co, Co A,B,C, Weapons Co
2nd Platoon, Co C, 3rd AAV Bn
Combat Engineer Co (-), Combat Assault Bn, 3rd Marine Division
C Battery, 1st Bn/12th Marines
Co A (-), 1st LAR
Co C (-) (REIN), 2nd AAV Bn
Co A (-) (REIN), 2nd Tank Bn
Co C (-), 2nd Combat Engineer Bn
5th Bn, 3rd Brigade, Iraqi Intervention Force
TF 2-2 In (-) (ARMY)
6th Bn, 3rd Brigade, Iraqi Intervention Force
2nd Brigade (-) (REIN), 1st Cavalry Division “Black Jack Brigade” (ARMY)
TF 1-5 Infantry (Stryker)
TF 1-5 Cavalry
759th Composite MP Bn (ARMY)
2nd Recon Bn
Co A (REIN), 2nd LAR, 2nd MARDIV
NOTES
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The Iliad . . .
trans. Richard Lattimore, University of Chicago Press, 1961, (book 12, 11. 322–28).
PROLOGUE
Blackwater Security . . .
Connie Mabin, “Slain Contractors Included 3 Veterans,” Associated Press, April 2, 2004.
the resistance . . .
Jeffrey Gettleman, “4 from US Killed; Mob Drags Bodies,”
New York Times,
April 1, 2004, p. A1.
like the fog . . .
Jeffrey Gettleman, “Mix of Pride and Shame Follows Killings and Mutilation by Iraqis,”
New York Times,
April 2, 2004, p. 1.
kill them . . .
E-mail to author, March 31, 2004.
furious. . . .
Dr. Juan R. I. Cole,
www.juancole.com
, July 2, 2004.
unpunished . . .
Sewell Chan and Karl Vick, “US Vows to Find Civilians’ Killers,”
Washington Post,
April 2, 2004, p. A1.
overwhelming . . .
Ibid.
immediately . . .
Los Angeles Times,
October 4, 2004, p. A1.
go get those responsible . . .
David Ignatius, “Making Do in Iraq,”
Washington Post,
June 22, 2004, p. A17.
not told . . .
Los Angeles Times,
October 4, 2004, p. A1.
CHAPTER 1
nearby roof . . .
Ian Fisher, “US Force Said to Kill 15 Iraqis,”
New York Times,
April 30, 2003, p. 1.
to cover the story . . .
Edmund Blair of Reuters, Ellen Knickmeyer of AP, Ian Fisher of the
New York Times,
Rajiv Chandrasekaran of the
Washington Post,
Michael Sackman of the
Los Angeles Times,
Phil Reeves of the
Independent
(U.K.), and Dan Murphy of the
Christian Science Monitor
.
shooting in the air . . .
Elizabeth Warnock Fernea,
Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village
(New York: Anchor Books, 1969).
under attack . . .
Rajiv Chandrasekaran and Scott Wilson, “Iraqi City Simmers with New Attack,”
Washington Post,
May 2, 2003, p. 21.
the next day . . .
Scott Wilson, “U.S. Forces Kill Two During Iraqi Demonstration: Some Baath Party Loyalists May Be Provoking U.S. Soldiers,”
Washington Post
Foreign Service, April 30, 2003.
flowing in from Saudi Arabia . . .
Stephen Schwartz, “Saudi Mischief in Fallujah,” the
Weekly Standard,
June 16, 2004, p. 1.
redeem you, O Islam . . .
Michael S. Doran, “Intimate Enemies,”
Washington Post,
February 18, 2004, p. A19.
betrayed the ruling caliph . . .
Ibid.
we’ll kick you out . . .
Chandrasekaran and Wilson, “Iraqi City Simmers with New Attack.”
Washington Post,
May 2, 2003, p. A21.
3rd Infantry Division . . .
John Hendren, “Fallouja Was Not the Prize Brigade Expected,”
Los Angeles Times,
June 3, 2003.
ask for candy . . .
Douglas Birch, “Rebellious City in Iraq Poses Stern Test of American Resolve,”
Baltimore Sun,
June 12, 2003.
kebab restaurant. . . .
Rajiv Chandrasekaran, “Iraq’s Barbed Realities,”
Washington Post,
October 17, 2004, p. B1.
local security forces . . .
2nd Brigade, 3rd ID Campaign Plan Brief, undated.
routine patrol vehicle . . .
Alissa J. Rubin, “U.S. Conducts Wide-Ranging Sweeps in Iraq,”
Los Angeles Times,
June 16, 2003, p. l.
a soldier asked . . .
Daniel Williams and Rajiv Chandrasekaran, “U.S. Troops Frustrated with Role in Iraq,”
Washington Post,
June 20, 2003, p. 1.
dropped a bomb . . .
Jim Krane and Colleen Slevin, “Explosion at Mosque Kills Five Iraqis,”
New York Times,
July 1, 2003.
checkpoints . . .
Rajiv Chandrasekaran, “In Iraqi City, A New Battle Plan,”
Washington Post,
July 29, 2003, p. A1.
water-pumping station . . .
Ibid.
American fatalities . . .
LtGen James Conway, USMC, Defense Department Briefing, the Pentagon, May 5, 2004.
through western Fallujah . . .
Ron Martz, “Volatile Fallujah ‘a Little More Stable,’ ”
Atlanta Journal-Constitution,
July 21, 2003.
freedom of movement . . .
Ibid.
hostile place . . .
Chandrasekaran, “In Iraqi City, a New Battle Plan,” p. A1.
CHAPTER 2
to be one line of authority . . .
General Tommy Franks,
American Soldier,
New York: ReganBooks, 2004, p. 295.
Johnson had shifted . . .
Howard B. Schaffer,
Ellsworth Bunker
(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003), p. 188.
pacification programs . . .
Edward P. Metzner,
More Than a Soldier’s War: Pacification in Vietnam
(College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1995), pp. 156 and 192.
his deputy CentCom commander for reconstruction . . .
Franks, op. cit., p. 532.
more political clout and money from the White House . . .
Franks, op. cit., p. 531.
classical guerrilla-type campaign . . .
Vernon Loeb, “ ‘Guerrilla’ War Acknowledged,”
Washington Post,
July 17, 2003, p. 1.
banana republic . . .
Ariana Eunjung Cha, “Flaws Showing in New Iraqi Forces: Pace of Police Recruiting Leads to Shortcuts,”
Washington Post,
December 3, 2003, p. A1.
CHAPTER 3
82nd Airborne Division returned . . .
When the 3rd ID headed home, the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment sent in a small contingent to provide temporary overwatch of Fallujah for a few weeks. During that time, another American soldier was killed by an IED.
inside the city . . .
Anthony Shadid, “2 U.S. Soldiers Killed by Mines on Iraqi Roads,”
Washington Post,
August 28, 2003, p. 14.
six-month-old American occupation . . .
Rajiv Chandrasekaran, “A Burst of Gunfire, Then a ‘Hail,’ ”
Washington Post,
October 14, 2003, p. 1.
three IEDs . . .
Brian Bennett, “Into the Danger Zone,”
Time,
October 13, 2003, p. 48.
same kind of regime . . .
Tini Tran, “General: 3 to 6 GIs Dying in Iraq a Week,” Associated Press, October 2, 2003.
God is great . . .
Bennett, “Into the Danger Zone,” p. 48.
seven paratroopers wounded . . .
David Lamb and Tyler Marshall, “In 2nd Ambush on Iraqi Road in 2 Days, 1 U.S. Soldier Dies,”
Los Angeles Times,
October 21, 2003.
government jobs . . .
Charles Clover, “Falluja’s Message of Hate for US Troops,”
Financial Times,
January 12, 2004, p. 6.
the problems here . . .
Rajiv Chandrasekaran and Vernon Loeb, “ ‘The Battlefield for All Iraq,’ ”
Washington Post,
November 4, 2003.
increased activities . . .
Ibid.
power generators . . .
Dexter Filkins, “In Die-Hard City, G.I.’s Are Enemy,”
New York Times,
November 4, 2003, p. 1.
stop the violence . . .
Susan Sachs, “Law and Order: Iraqi Tribes, Asked to Help G.I.’s, Say They Can’t,”
New York Times,
November 11, 2003, p. A1.
sheikhs had power . . .
Associated Press, “Violent Fallujah Becomes Quiet,” November 22, 2003.
control their tribes . . .
Associated Press, “In Iraq, Treading Carefully While Fighting Insurgency,”
Baltimore Sun,
November 16, 2003.
schoolteacher in Fallujah . . .
Susan Sachs, “Tribes in Falluja Where G.I.’s Seek Help Say They Can’t,”
New York Times,
November 11, 2003, p. A10.
thousand-pound bombs . . .
“US Jet Bombs Insurgents after Fallujah Attacks,”
“PA” News,
November 9, 2003.
combination of all three . . .
Green Left Weekly,
November 12, 2003.
crush a walnut . . .
Alissa J. Rubin and Patrick J. McDonnell, “U.S. Gunships Target Insurgents in Iraq amid Copter Crash Inquiry,”
Los Angeles Times,
November 19, 2003.
Mahadaai . . .
Alan Sipress, “US. Presses Counteroffensive, But Insurgents Strike Again,”
Washington Post,
December 5, 2003, p. 21.
release several women . . .
Associated Press, “In Iraq, Treading Carefully While Fighting Insurgency,”
Baltimore Sun,
November 16, 2003.
attacks by explosive devices . . .
Patrick J. McDonnell, “Town Preoccupies the Occupation,”
Los Angeles Times,
November 17, 2003, p. 1.
Iraqi was killed . . .
CentCom News Release, December 16, 2003.
to fight now . . .
Tracy Wilkinson, “Bombs Kill 2 American Soldiers, 2 Iraqi Youths,”
Los Angeles Times,
December 29, 2003.
fire at them . . .
Charles Clover, “Falluja’s Message of Hate for US Troops,”
Financial Times,
January 12, 2004, p. 6.
you die . . .
Tracy Wilkinson, “Bombs Kill 2 American Soldiers, 2 Iraqi Youths,”
Los Angeles Times,
December 29, 2003.
CHAPTER 4
50 percent . . .
Washington Post
Opinion Polling, About.com, February 15, 2005.
their lives . . .
Michael M. Phillips, “Before Heading to Iraq, Marines Learn People Skills,”
Wall Street Journal,
January 6, 2004, p. 1.
with an assessment team . . .
Author was a member of the Eikenberry team.
external borders . . .
“U.S. to Unveil Plans for New Iraqi Army,”
New York Times,
June 23, 2003.
Guard soldier . . .
OSD Unclassified Working Paper, November 11, 2003.
Wolfowitz said . . .
House Armed Services Committee Hearing, June 22, 2004.
noneffective . . .
Author interviews in Ramadi and Fallujah with the 82nd, January 16–20, 2004.
a thousand officers . . .
Commander’s Conference Report, Al Anbar Governance Coordinator, November 4, 2003.
he said . . .
“Commander: ‘Not Enough Hate’ for Iraqi Civil War,” CNN, June 30, 2004.
the bottlenecks . . .
At a hearing on September 17, 2004, for instance, Senator Chuck Hagel (R–Nebraska) pointed out that of $4.2 billion authorized for water and sewage works, $16 million had been spent; of $367 million set aside for specific military items, $7 million had been spent; and of $3 billion authorized for law, order, and justice programs, $167 million had been spent.
should have . . .
CSPAN, House Foreign Operations Subcommittee Hearing, September 24, 2004.
two French citizens . . .
Craig S. Smith, “2 French Citizens Are Killed by Gunmen on Iraqi Road,”
New York Times,
January 7, 2004.
around the city . . .
Patrick Rucker, “Copter Crew Used to Saving Lives,”
Chicago Tribune,
January 28, 2004.
second shoot-down . . .
Daniel Williams and Alan Sipress, “Helicopter Crash in Iraq Kills Nine U.S. Soldiers,”
Washington Post,
January 9, 2004, p.12.