Iraq+and+Afghanistan

Iraq and Afghanistan

Items to phase into my material for the course in Spring 2014.

Insight Into How Insurgents Fought in Iraq (part 1/2) http://atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/17/insight-into-how-insurgents-fought-in-iraq/?_r=0

The Most Lethal Weapon Americans Faced in Iraq (part 2/2) http://atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/18/the-most-lethal-weapon-americans-faced-in-iraq/?hp

This one is really good: Atlantic In Focus: Archives on Afghanistan http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/category/afghanistan/

The Women of Afghanistan http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/09/the-women-of-the-afghanistan-war/100585/

Book review: To Reach Out, Befriend and Kill When Necessary: An Ever Trickier Terrain ‘The Tender Soldier’ Examines the U.S. Counterinsurgency Strategy http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/28/books/the-tender-soldier-examines-the-us-counterinsurgency-strategy.html?ref=global-home

Insight: As Afghanistan endgame looms, a deadly edge to India-Pakistan rivalry http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/13/us-india-pakistan-afghanistan-insight-idUSBRE97C06M20130813

How to Read Afghanistan [human intelligence teams] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/11/opinion/sunday/how-to-read-afghanistan.html?ref=global-home&_r=0

Taliban's Divided Tactics Raise Doubts Over Talks http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/26/world/asia/mixed-signals-as-taliban-try-another-tactic.html?ref=global-home&_r=0

Afghans See Their Army Woo Them With Piety http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/22/world/asia/afghans-see-their-army-woo-them-with-piety.html?ref=global-home&_r=0&pagewanted=all

India's growing stake in Afghanistan http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-18622573

IRAQ WAR (WIKIPEDIA) History of Iraq []

Shia Islam (Wikipedia) [] Sunni Islam (Wikipedia) []

Saddam Hussein (Wikipedia) [] Ba'ath Party (Wikipedia) []

Iraq War (Wikipedia) [] Coalition Provisional Authority (Wikipedia) [] Iraq War troop surge of 2007 (Wikipedia) [] Tactics of the Iraqi insurgency (Wikipedia) []

Nouri al-Maliki (Wikipedia) [] Ahmed Chalabi (Wikipedia) [] Muqtada al-Sadr (Wikipedia) []