FRONTLINE

Note: All descriptions below are taken verbatim from the FRONTLINE summaries at the pertinent web address.
 * DISCLOSURE:**

Iraq, Afghanistan, and the War on Terror (FRONTLINE) A collection of FRONTLINE programs from 9/11 to the present http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/terror/

Making Sense of Oral History http://historymatters.gmu.edu/mse/oral/oral.pdf

Interviews as Historical Evidence: A Discussion of New Standards of Documentation and Access on JSTOR Look this article up on APU databases https://www.jstor.org/stable/494127?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents


 * Table of contents of videos on this page:**


 * Iraq**

Gulf War

Saddam Hussein himself: Gunning for Saddam Survival of Saddam Spying on Saddam Chasing Saddam's Weapons

Bush's War The War Behind Closed Doors The Long Road to War Truth, War, and Consequences Blair's War The Dark Side Rumsfeld's War Cheney's Law The Torture Question

Invasion of Iraq

Lost Year in Iraq

Endgame

Bad Voodoo's War The Soldier's Heart The Wounded Platoon A Company of Soldiers Insurgency Gangs of Iraq Rules of Engagement Private Warriors Beyond Baghdad


 * Afghanistan**

The War Briefing Campaign Against Terror In Search of Al Qaeda Return of the Taliban Obama's War


 * IRAQ**


 * The Gulf War** (1990-1991)

Gulf War (FRONTLINE) website http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/gulf/

Video (4 hours) http://youtu.be/aUMAyiI0TPA

This two-part documentary is a comprehensive and critical analysis of the 1990-1991 war in which more than one million troops faced off against each other in the deserts of the Gulf states. From the Allied coalition's air war and the ground assault, to the liberation of Kuwait and the fallout of Saddam Hussein's retaining power, FRONTLINE deconstructs what really happened, how it happened and why. This report draws on in-depth, remarkably candid interviews with those who planned Operation Desert Storm and those who fought its battles. These include key decision makers such as Colin Powell, Norman Schwarzkopf, former Secretary of State James Baker, former Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney, and Margaret Thatcher. It also includes vivid commentary by U.S and British commanders on the ground, the war stories of soldiers and airmen captured by the Iraqis, and interviews with Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz and a top Iraqi intelligence official.

Transcripts of the video Part A http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/gulf/script_a.html Part B http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/gulf/script_b.html

Readings http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/gulf/appendix/readings.html

Maps Link to each of them http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/gulf/maps/

Chronology http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/gulf/cron/

Weapons http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/gulf/weapons/

Oral History []

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/gulf/oral/decision.html
 * a. The Decision Makers**

Colin Powell [] Dick Cheney http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/gulf/oral/cheney/1.html James Baker http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/gulf/oral/baker/1.html Margaret Thatcher http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/gulf/art/oral3es.gif Robert Gates http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/gulf/art/oral3fs.gif Richard Haass http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/gulf/art/oral3hs.gif Brent Scowcroft http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/gulf/oral/scowcroft/1.html Mikail Gorbachev []

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 * b. The Commanders**

Norman Schwarzkopf http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/gulf/oral/schwarzkopf/1.html Calvin Waller [] Charles Horner [] Walt Boomer [] Frederick Franks [] Buster Glosson [] Peter de la Billiere []


 * c. The Iraqis**

Tariq Aziz [] Wafic al Samarrai []


 * d. The Analysts**

Rick Atkinson http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/gulf/oral/atkinson/1.html Bernard Trainor []


 * e. War Stories**

Rhonda Cornum [] David Eberly [] Jeff Tice [] Andy McNab [] John Peters http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/gulf/war/4.html

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 * Gunning for Saddam**

FRONTLINE investigates the intense debate inside the Bush administration over what should be the next front in the war on terrorism. The Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the United States re-energized Saddam Hussein's strongest opponents in Washington. This report examines the litany of allegations against Iraq's leader, including the Iraqi regime's efforts to stockpile weapons of mass destruction, its attempt to assassinate former president George H.W. Bush in 1993, and recent allegations by two Iraqi military defectors that a secret camp inside Iraq has been used for the training of Islamic terrorists.

Transcript http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/gunning/etc/script.html

Interviews http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/gunning/interviews/

Analyses http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/gunning/analyses/

Readings and links http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/gunning/etc/links.html

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 * The Survival of Saddam Hussein**

This report presents an intimate portrait of Saddam Hussein's life, examining what has made him a master survivor -- from his days as a young hit man in the Ba'ath party to his rise to power with CIA help; from his successful exploitation of superpower rivalry in the 1970s to his miscalculations in invading Kuwait 20 years later; from CIA-backed coup attempts and internal rebellions against him throughout the 1990s to his successful standoff with U.N. weapons inspectors.

Transcript http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/saddam/etc/script.html

Video: The Survival of Saddam Hussein (58 minutes) []

FRONTLINE The mind of Hussein http://youtu.be/lfJ1Lw5-W9Y

The Survival of Saddam Hussein http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/saddam/

Synopsis http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/saddam/etc/synopsis.html

Secrets of Saddam's life and leadership http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/saddam/interviews/aburish.html http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/saddam/interviews/aburish2.html http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/saddam/interviews/aburish3.html

Readings http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/saddam/readings/

Tales of the tyrant (Mark Bowden) http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2002/05/tales-of-the-tyrant/302480/

Plans on building a police state http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/saddam/readings/action.html

Chronology http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/longroad/etc/cron.html

The Kurds' story http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/saddam/kurds/

A chronology of US-Kurdish history http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/saddam/kurds/cron.html

Photo album http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/saddam/photos/

Interviews http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/saddam/interviews/

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 * Spying on Saddam**

In this report, FRONTLINE chronicles the dramatic, and ultimately thwarted, eight-year effort by the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) to find and dismantle Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. Tracing the history of UNSCOM -- from its birth at the end of the Gulf War, to its daring inspections and confrontations with the Iraqi military during the 1990s, to the final events leading up to the U.N.'s withdrawal of weapons inspectors in 1998 -- FRONTLINE tracks how politics, quarrels, and turf wars involving the U.N., the State Department, the CIA, and Israel effectively undermined and ended UNSCOM's mission.

Synopsis http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/unscom/etc/synopsis.html

Chronology http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/unscom/etc/cron.html

Transcript http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/unscom/etc/script.html

What it took: Strategies and Confrontations Scott Ritter and David Kay http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/unscom/etc/what.html

Expert analysis http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/unscom/experts/

Photos http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/unscom/photos/

Readings and links [Some real good ones in here] http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/unscom/readings/

Interviews http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/unscom/interviews/ Richard Butler http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/unscom/interviews/butler.html Barton Gellman http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/unscom/interviews/gellman.html Richard Haass http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/unscom/interviews/haass.html Dr. Khidir Hamza http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/unscom/interviews/hamza.html David Kay http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/unscom/interviews/kay.html Scott Ritter http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/unscom/interviews/ritter.html Robin Wright http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/unscom/interviews/wright.html


 * Bush's War**

Bush's War http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/bushswar/

Video: Bush's War (4 hours total) Part 1 http://youtu.be/bs6tiaXGMRs Part 2 http://youtu.be/ttRfmCHIDSU

Timeline http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/bushswar/cron/ Site Map []

9/11 and Al Qaeda, Afghanistan and Iraq, WMD and the Insurgency, Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, Fallujah, and the Surge. For six years FRONTLINE has been revealing those stories in meticulous detail, and the political dramas played out at the highest levels -- George W. Bush and Tony Blair, Dick Cheney and Colin Powell, Donald Rumsfeld, George Tenet, Condoleezza Rice, Osama Bin Laden.

Timeline: Annotated Video Timeline []

Transcript (part 1) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/bushswar/etc/script.html Transcript (part 2) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/bushswar/etc/script2.html

Readings and Links http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/bushswar/etc/links.html

Site Map http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/bushswar/etc/sitemap.html

Map: Iraq's major ethnic and religious groups http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/insurgency/map/


 * Bush's War Video (Video Timeline)**

Timeline: Annotated Video Timeline []


 * 1980s**

Terrorist attacks against Americans abroad


 * 1990s**

The Gulf War foreshadows conflicts to come in the George W. Bush administration

Wolfowitz's proposal for a new unilateral foreign policy of preemption and toughness

Al Qaeda's international terror network slowly comes into focus for US intelligence


 * 2001**

The George W. Bush presidency begins

Cheney's push to expand executive power Cheney's Law (**FRONTLINE**) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/cheney/

Rumsfeld sets out to transform the US military Rumsfeld's War (**FRONTLINE**)

Iraqi exiles lobby Washington policy-makers

11 September 2001: America is under attack

The war cabinet gathers at Camp David; Iraq is discussed

CIA takes the lead in Afghanistan against Al Qaeda and the Taliban

Bin Laden escapes US offensive at Tora Bora

Working in the shadows: Rumsfeld creates new intelligence unit inside the Pentagon Rumsfeld's War (**FRONTLINE**) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/pentagon/ Biographical sketches of key players http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/pentagon/paths/

Planning for Iraq War begins


 * 2002**

Detainees from the war in Afghanistan start arriving at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba

President Bush warns of an "Axis of Evil": North Korea, Iran, and Iraq

The State Department and Pentagon clash over postwar planning

The internal battle over whether Bush should keep trying diplomacy

Harsh interrogations take place at Guantanamo The Torture Question (**FRONTLINE**) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/torture/


 * 2003**

President Bush's State of the Union address: essentially a declaration of war

Secretary Powell makes the case for war at the UN

Blair's War (**FRONTLINE**) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/blair/ Timeline: Failure of Diplomacy http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/blair/etc/cron.html

General Shinseki testifies on force level needed to invade, occupy Iraq

The Invasion of Iraq (**FRONTLINE**) []

US troops help Iraqis pull down Saddam Hussein's statue

Widespread looting escalates in Iraq

The Failure to Secure Iraq (**FRONTLINE: Rumsfeld's War**) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/pentagon/themes/secure.html

Things seem to be spinning out of control: Rumsfeld appoints Paul Bremer to take charge

[loop back to include Jay Garner] General Jay Garner picked to handle postwar Iraq

The Lost Year in Iraq (**FRONTLINE**)

Bremer's De-Baathification order

The insurgency grows

Prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib


 * 2004**

No weapons of mass destruction are found Chasing Saddam's Weapons (**FRONTLINE)** http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/wmd/

The first battle of Fallujah (April 2004) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Battle_of_Fallujah Interview: Marine Colonel John Toolan http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/warriors/interviews/toolan.html

A new top general (George Casey replaces Sanchez) for Iraq--and a new exit strategy

General Casey as seen by colleagues http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/endgame/themes/casey.html

Sovereignty is transferred to the Iraqis (28 June 2004)

U.S. forces shift to "light footprint"

U.S. forces clash again with powerful Shi's militia leader: Moqtada al-Sadr BBC News profile http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12135160

Gangs of Iraq (FRONTLINE) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/gangsofiraq/

Bush is re-elected; time to clean house

The second battle of Fallujah (8 November 2004) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Battle_of_Fallujah

A Company of Soldiers (**FRONTLINE**) [November 2004] http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/company/


 * 2005**

Sunnis boycott elections; the sectarian divide grows

The Insurgency (**FRONTLINE**) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/insurgency/

A new, promising strategy emerges in Tal Afar Interview with Col. H.R. McMaster http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/insurgency/interviews/mcmaster.html


 * 2006**

Holy Shi'ite 'shrine is bombed, fueling sectarian violence http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/23/world/23iraq.html?pagewanted=all

A flickering civil war takes hold; Rumsfeld resigns


 * 2007**

The End Game [goes through the Surge] (**FRONTLINE**) []

A new plan and a new general (Petraeus replaces Casey) for Iraq

General Petraeus and the new team http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/endgame/themes/petraeus.html

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/iraq/
 * The War Behind Closed Doors**

Video http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/showsiraq/ YouTube http://youtu.be/E-iw5xIwWK0

This report traces the story behind the Bush administration's abandonment of a long-standing policy of "containment" for Iraq in favor of a more aggressive "preemption" policy -- to be used on Iraq or any nation or group believed to threaten U.S. security. From the long-running policy battle between Secretary of State Colin Powell and Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz to the evolution of the "Bush Doctrine" after Sept. 11, culminating in the September 2002 release of his National Security Strategy, this program recounts how administration insiders -- calling themselves "neo-Reaganites," "neo-conservatives," or simply "hawks" -- set out to achieve a new and muscular foreign policy for America.

Synopsis http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/iraq/etc/synopsis.html

Transcript http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/iraq/etc/script.html

Timeline: Chronology of the evolution of the Bush Doctrine This is important []

Themes http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/iraq/themes/

Readings and links An incredible array http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/iraq/etc/links.html

Interviews are great http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/iraq/interviews/ Mark Danner http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/iraq/interviews/danner.html John Lewis Gaddis http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/iraq/interviews/gaddis.html Barton Gellman http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/iraq/interviews/gellman.html William Kristol http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/iraq/interviews/kristol.html Richard Perle http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/iraq/interviews/perle.html

Why did US go to war? What went wrong? http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/truth/ Video []
 * Truth, War, and Consequences**

FRONTLINE traces the roots of the Iraqi war back to the days immediately following Sept. 11, when Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld ordered the creation of a special intelligence operation to quietly begin looking for evidence that would justify the war. The intelligence reports soon became a part of a continuing struggle between civilians in the Pentagon on one side and the CIA, State Department, and uniformed military on the other -- a struggle that would lead to inadequate planning for the aftermath of the war, continuing violence, and mounting political problems for the president.

Synopsis http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/truth/etc/synopsis.html

Transcript http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/truth/etc/script.html

I. Why did we go to war? http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/truth/why/

A necessary war? http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/truth/why/necessary.html

Selective intelligence http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/truth/why/selective.html

In their own words: who said what when http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/truth/why/said.html

Trusting Chalabi http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/truth/why/chalabi.html

The Middle East, democracy, and dominoes http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/truth/why/dominoes.html

II. What went wrong?

Turf wars and the future of Iraq http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/truth/fighting/turfwars.html

Is this victory? http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/truth/fighting/victory.html

We want a government and we want it now. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/truth/fighting/wewant.html

Dispatch: Baghdad shootout http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/truth/etc/anger.html

III. What's at stake? http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/truth/stake/

Nation-building: James Dobbins http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/truth/stake/dobbins.html http://www.rand.org/pubs/periodicals/rand-review/issues/summer2003/nation1.html

IV. Interviews [use the bio sketches on this overview page] http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/truth/interviews/

L. Paul Bremer http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/truth/interviews/bremer.html Ahmad Chalabi http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/truth/interviews/chalabi.html James Conway http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/truth/interviews/conway.html Jay Garner http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/truth/interviews/garner.html Richard Haass http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/truth/interviews/haass.html Laith Kubba http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/truth/interviews/kubba.html Kanan Makiya http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/truth/interviews/makiya.html Robert Perito http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/truth/interviews/perito.html Richard Perle http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/truth/interviews/perle.html Greg Thielman http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/truth/interviews/thielmann.html Edward Walker http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/truth/interviews/walker.html Joseph Wilson http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/truth/interviews/wilson.html

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/longroad/
 * The Long Road to War**

Video http://youtu.be/1CHTO3zyJf0

With the U.S. apparently within days of attacking Iraq, FRONTLINE draws on its 12 years of reporting on Iraq to chronicle the key moments in the history of America's ongoing confrontation with Saddam Hussein. This special two-hour report examines how the West armed Iraq, the mind and methods of Saddam Hussein, the origins of the first Gulf War and its ragged end, the frustrating effort to disarm Iraq through U.N. inspections, how Saddam survived efforts to undermine his power, and the long-standing effort by Washington hawks to remove him.

This report draws on many other FRONTLINE reports.

Chronology []

Readings and links http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/longroad/etc/links.html

Transcript http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/longroad/etc/script.html

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 * Chasing Saddam's Weapons**

With the credibility of President Bush and Prime Minister Blair at stake, BBC reporter Jane Corbin takes viewers inside the high-stakes search for Saddam Hussein's alleged weapons of mass destruction. Through exclusive access to top-secret locations and key U.S. officials leading the hunt, including David Kay, FRONTLINE reveals new details about what the search has uncovered and questions whether the investigation's final results will justify the White House's call for war.

Synopsis http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/wmd/etc/synopsis.html

Transcript http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/wmd/etc/script.html

On the weapons trail (BBC reporter Jane Corbin) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/wmd/etc/corbin.html

Readings and links http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/wmd/etc/links.html

FAQs http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/wmd/etc/faqs.html

Interview: David Kay http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/wmd/interviews/kay.html

Interview: Hans Blix http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/wmd/interviews/blix.html

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 * Blair's War**

For the past few months, British Prime Minister Tony Blair has been fighting the biggest political battle of his career. Caught in the center of a high stakes political storm, he tried to personally bridge the gap between the United States and its European allies -- particularly France and Germany -- over the impending war in Iraq. FRONTLINE examines the roots of the discord within the Western alliance, the perilous role Blair has played, and the stakes for him and the West should this old alliance fall apart.

Synopsis [FRONTLINE calls this Introduction] http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/blair/etc/synopsis.html

Transcript http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/blair/etc/script.html

Readings and links http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/blair/etc/links.html

Interviews http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/blair/interviews/ Robert Kagan http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/blair/interviews/kagan.html

Prime Minister http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/blair/prime/

The Fractured Alliance http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/blair/europe/

The Liberal Divide http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/blair/liberal/

Chronology: Failure of Diplomacy http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/blair/etc/cron.html

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/pentagon/
 * Rumsfeld's War (2004)**

Video []

With the United States Army deployed in a dozen hot spots around the world, on constant alert in Afghanistan, and taking casualties every day in Iraq, some current and former officers now say the army is on the verge of being "broken." They charge that the army is overstretched, demoralized, and may be unable to fight where and when the nation desires. This fall, FRONTLINE and the Washington Post join forces for an in-depth assessment of the state of the American army and the nation's military establishment. The program digs into the aggressive attempts to assert civilian control and remake the military by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and his allies.

Biographical sketches of key players http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/pentagon/paths/

Transcript http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/pentagon/etc/script.html

Synopsis http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/pentagon/etc/synopsis.html

Paths to Power: [Dig into this more fully] Donald Rumsfeld Dick Cheney Paul Wolfowitz Colin Powell Richard Armitage http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/pentagon/paths/ Career History of the players http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/pentagon/paths/bios.html#rumsfeld

Analysis http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/pentagon/themes/ Who is Donald Rumsfeld http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/pentagon/themes/whois.html The failure to secure Iraq http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/pentagon/themes/secure.html

Timeline: Rumsfeld's life http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/pentagon/etc/cronfeld.html

Timeline: Military Struggles and Evolution http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/pentagon/etc/cronagon.html

Washington Post coverage of Rumsfeld http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/liveonline/partners/frontline.htm

Interviews [many good ones] http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/pentagon/interviews/ James Mann (Rise of the Vulcans) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/pentagon/interviews/mann.html

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/darkside/
 * The Dark Side**

Video This is a good one to use in our course http://youtu.be/dOmtfETfhmI

On Sept. 11, 2001, deep inside a White House bunker, Vice President Dick Cheney was ordering U.S. fighter planes to shoot down any commercial airliner still in the air above America. At that moment, CIA Director George Tenet was meeting with his counter-terrorism team in Langley, Virginia. Both leaders acted fast, to prepare their country for a new kind of war. But soon a debate would grow over the goals of the war on terror, and the decision to go to war in Iraq. Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, and others saw Iraq as an important part of a broader plan to remake the Middle East and project American power worldwide. Meanwhile Tenet, facing division in his own organization, saw non-state actors such as Al Qaeda as the highest priority. FRONTLINE's investigation of the ensuing conflict includes more than forty interviews, thousands of pages of documentary evidence, and a substantial photographic archive. It is the third documentary about the war on terror from the team that produced "Rumsfeld's War" and "The Torture Question."

Introduction (synopsis) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/darkside/etc/synopsis.html

Transcript http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/darkside/etc/script.html

Intelligence community organization chart http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/darkside/etc/cia.html

VP Cheney's network in the bureaucracy http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/darkside/etc/network.html

Site map http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/darkside/etc/sitemap.html

Readings and links http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/darkside/etc/links.html

Themes http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/darkside/themes/ The War in Afghanistan http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/darkside/themes/afghanistan.html

Interviews [dig into these] http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/darkside/interviews/

Push to expand Presidential power []
 * Cheney's Law**

For three decades, Vice President Dick Cheney has waged a secretive, and often bitter battle to expand the power of the presidency. Now in a direct confrontation with Congress, as the administration asserts executive privilege to head off investigations into domestic wiretapping and the firing of U.S. attorneys, FRONTLINE meticulously traces the behind-closed-doors battle within the administration over the power of the presidency and the rule of law.

Synopsis http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/cheney/etc/synopsis.html

Transcript http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/cheney/etc/script.html

Site map http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/cheney/etc/sitemap.html

Interviews http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/cheney/interviews/

Themes http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/cheney/themes/ Cheney's View of the World A Man With Secrets David Addington: Cheney's Powerful One-Man Legal Office True Believers Presidential Power -- the Bush Legacy The Bush-Cheney Relationship Rebellion at Justice Signing Statements The Office of Legal Counsel

Readings and links http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/cheney/etc/links.html

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 * The Torture Question**

Video http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/torture/

In the uncertain weeks following Sept. 11, an internal power struggle was underway deep inside the Bush administration. Waged between partisans at the highest levels of the government, that battle -- captured in a series of blunt memos -- exemplifies the struggle to create a legal framework to give the president authority to aggressively interrogate enemy fighters in the war on terror. FRONTLINE goes behind closed doors to investigate the struggle over how and when to use what was called "coercive interrogation." The film begins with a policy born out of fear and anger and tracks how increasingly tough measures were taken to gather information about Al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, and finally the rising insurgency in Iraq. In an examination that begins at the White House and ends in the public debate about alleged abuses at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and Abu Ghraib, policy makers, government interrogators, and their subjects talk to FRONTLINE about their experiences as part of this internal battle.

Synopsis http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/torture/etc/synopsis.html

Transcripts http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/torture/etc/script.html

Readings and links http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/torture/etc/links.html

Interviews http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/torture/interviews/

Themes http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/torture/themes/

Is Torture Ever Justified? http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/torture/justify/

Examining the paper trail http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/torture/paper/

Behind the wire at Guantanamo http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/torture/behind/

FAQs http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/torture/etc/faqs.html

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/invasion/
 * Invasion of Iraq**

FRONTLINE marks the first anniversary of the Iraq war with a two-hour documentary investigation that recounts the key strategies, battles, and turning points of the war from both sides of the battlefield. Through firsthand accounts from many of the war's key participants -- from strategists in Washington to the soldiers who actually fought the battles -- "The Invasion of Iraq" promises to be a definitive television history of America's most recent war.

Operation Iraqi Freedom - NBC News Documentary - 2003 https://youtu.be/gQmf3SleIRo

Synopsis http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/invasion/

Transcript http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/invasion/etc/script.html

Chronology []

War in Iraq: Day by day guide (BBC News) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/middle_east/2002/conflict_with_iraq/day_by_day_coverage/default.stm

Interviews http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/invasion/interviews/ Interview: James Fallows http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/invasion/interviews/fallows.html Interview: Frederick Kagan http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/invasion/interviews/kagan.html Interview: Todd Purdum http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/invasion/interviews/purdum.html Interview: Thomas Ricks http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/invasion/interviews/ricks.html Interview: Thomas White http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/invasion/interviews/white.html Interview: Iraqi general Al-Hamdani http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/invasion/interviews/raad.html Interview: Lt. Gen. James Conway http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/invasion/interviews/conway.html Interview: Lt. Gen. David McKiernan http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/invasion/interviews/mckiernan.html Interview: Lt. Col. Marcone http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/invasion/interviews/marcone.html Interview: Col. David Perkins http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/invasion/interviews/perkins.html Interview: Lt. Gen. William Wallace http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/invasion/interviews/wallace.html

FAQs http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/invasion/etc/faqs.html

Analysis http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/invasion/themes/

Readings and Links http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/invasion/etc/links.html

One section of this screen offers several different timelines of the invasion: a. CNN http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2003/iraq/ b. New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/ref/international/worldspecial/iraq_GRAPHICSINDEX_02.html?_r=0 c. Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/iraq/front.htm d. BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/middle_east/2002/conflict_with_iraq/day_by_day_coverage/default.stm e. Global Security http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/iraqi_freedom.htm

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/yeariniraq/cron/
 * The Lost Year in Iraq**

Video http://youtu.be/XJ0ZdTl3y2k

In the aftermath of the fall of Saddam Hussein, a group of Americans led by Ambassador L. Paul Bremer III set off to Baghdad to build a new nation and establish democracy in the Arab Middle East. One year later, with Bremer forced to secretly exit what some have called "the most dangerous place on earth," the group left behind lawlessness, insurgency, economic collapse, death, destruction -- and much of their idealism. Three years later, as the U.S. continues to look for an exit strategy, the government the Americans helped create and the infrastructure they designed are being tested. FRONTLINE Producer Michael Kirk follows the early efforts and ideals of this group as they tried to seize control and disband the Iraqi police, army and Baathist government -- and how they became hardened along the way to the realities of postwar Iraq. The Lost Year in Iraq is based on numerous first-person interviews and extensive documentation from the FRONTLINE team that produced "Rumsfeld's War," "The Torture Question" and "The Dark Side."

Synopsis http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/yeariniraq/etc/synopsis.html

Site map http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/yeariniraq/etc/sitemap.html

Transcript http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/yeariniraq/etc/tapes.html

Timeline: Fighting on two fronts http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/yeariniraq/cron/

Interviews http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/yeariniraq/interviews/

Interview: L. Paul Bremer, III http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/yeariniraq/interviews/bremer.html

Interview: Lt. Gen Jay Garner http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/yeariniraq/interviews/garner.html

Interview: Robert Blackwill http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/yeariniraq/interviews/blackwill.html

Interview: Rajiv Chandrasekaran http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/yeariniraq/interviews/rajiv.html

Interview: Anthony Cordesman http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/yeariniraq/interviews/cordesman.html

Interview: James Dobbins http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/yeariniraq/interviews/dobbins.html

Interview: Michael Gordon http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/yeariniraq/interviews/gordon.html

Interview: Thomas Ricks http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/yeariniraq/interviews/ricks.html

Analysis: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/yeariniraq/analysis/

Key controversies and missteps http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/yeariniraq/analysis/fuel.html

Inside the green zone http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/yeariniraq/analysis/greenzone.html

Welcome to the Green Zone http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2004/11/welcome-to-the-green-zone/303547/

Welcome to the Green Zone http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2004/11/welcome-to-the-green-zone/303547/

Life in the Green Zone https://nvd.nist.gov/scap/docs/conference%20presentations/Karmol_Detailed%20to%20Iraq_v22.pdf

Analysis of L. Paul Bremer http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/yeariniraq/analysis/assessments.html

Doomed from the start? http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/yeariniraq/analysis/prewar.html

Readings and Links http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/yeariniraq/etc/links.html

In Iraq, military forgot the lessons of Vietnam (Thomas Ricks) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/22/AR2006072200444.html

Ties to GOP trumped know-how among staff sent to rebuild Iraq http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/16/AR2006091600193.html

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/endgame/cron/
 * The End Game**

Video http://youtu.be/tO8--8AlZok

As the United States begins one final effort to secure victory through a "surge" of troops, FRONTLINE investigates how strategic and tactical mistakes brought Iraq to civil war. The film recounts how the early mandate to create the conditions for a quick exit of the American military led to chaos, failure, and sectarian strife. In Endgame, producer Michael Kirk (Rumsfeld's War, The Torture Question, The Dark Side, and The Lost Year in Iraq) traces why the president decided to risk what military planners once warned could be the worst way to fight in Iraq -- door-to-door -- and assesses the likelihood of its success. Top administration figures, military commanders, and journalists offer inside details about the new strategy.

Synopsis http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/endgame/etc/synopsis.html

Transcript http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/endgame/etc/script.html

Site map http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/endgame/etc/sitemap.html

Timeline: []

Interviews http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/endgame/interviews/

Interview: Michael Gordon http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/endgame/interviews/gordon.html

Interview: Col. William Hix http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/endgame/interviews/hix.html

Interview: Frederick Kagan http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/endgame/interviews/kagan.html

Interview: Gen. Jack Keane http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/endgame/interviews/keane.html

Interview: Lt. Col. Andrew Krepinevich http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/endgame/interviews/krepinevich.html

Interview: Col. H.R. McMaster http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/endgame/interviews/mcmaster.html

Interview: Thomas Ricks http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/endgame/interviews/ricks.html

Interview: Col. Kalev Sepp http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/endgame/interviews/sepp.html

Interview: Philip Zelikow http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/endgame/interviews/zelikow.html

Themes http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/endgame/themes/

The colonels' war http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/endgame/themes/colonels.html

Can the surge work? http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/endgame/themes/surge.html

Misreading history: comparing Iraq to Vietnam http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/endgame/themes/misreading.html

The U.S. effort to train an Iraqi military as an exit strategy http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/gangsofiraq/
 * Gangs of Iraq**

Video http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/gangsofiraq/view/

Day after day scores of bodies litter the streets of Baghdad. To staunch the violence, the U.S. has spent billions to "stand up" the Iraqi forces. In Gangs of Iraq, a joint production of FRONTLINE and the "America at a Crossroads" series, FRONTLINE takes a hard look at how the four-year training effort has fared and how the coalition-trained forces have themselves been infiltrated by various sectarian militias. Now, with President Bush sending new U.S. troops to Iraq, it remains to be seen if America and its allies can build a national Iraqi army and police and restore order.

Site Map http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/gangsofiraq/etc/sitemap.html

Synopsis http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/gangsofiraq/etc/synopsis.html

Transcript http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/gangsofiraq/etc/script.html

Video diaries Adhamiyah (6:08) Sadr City (6:46)

Reporters' Notebook: Visit to a police station http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/gangsofiraq/notebooks/smith.html

Reporters' Notebook: Fixers http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/gangsofiraq/notebooks/gaviria.html

Interviews http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/gangsofiraq/interviews/

Interview: Gen. David Petraeus http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/gangsofiraq/interviews/petraeus.html

Interview: Dexter Filkins http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/gangsofiraq/interviews/filkins.html

Readings http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/gangsofiraq/etc/links.html

Hadley's secret memo on Malaki (2006) http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/29/world/middleeast/29mtext.html?ei=5070&en=e0045fafccd48eea&ex=1181275200&pagewanted=all

Why Iraq has no army (2006) http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2005/12/why-iraq-has-no-army/304428/

(contractors) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/warriors/
 * Private Warriors**

Video http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/warriors/view/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7BLdFnQTsc&feature=youtu.be

FRONTLINE returns to Iraq, this time to embed with Halliburton/KBR, and to take a hard look at private contractors like Blackwater, Aegis and Erinys, who play an increasingly critical role in running U.S. military supply lines, providing armed protection, and operating U.S. military bases. These private warriors are targeted by insurgents and in turn have been criticized for their rough treatment of Iraqi civilians. Their dramatic story illuminates the Pentagon's new reliance on corporate outsourcing and raises tough questions about where they fit in the chain of command and the price we are paying for their role in the war.

Frequently asked questions about private contractors http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/warriors/faqs/

Readings http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/warriors/etc/links.html

Baghdad from a bulletproof window http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/warriors/report/

Synopsis http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/warriors/etc/synopsis.html

Transcripts http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/warriors/etc/script.html

Interviews http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/warriors/interviews/

Inside Iraq's second largest force http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/warriors/contractors/

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 * A Company of Soldiers [November 2004]**

The first measures of the war in Iraq's psychological toll are coming in: A medical study estimates that more than one in seven returning veterans are expected to suffer from major depression anxiety or Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. For those who have survived, the fighting the battle is not over. For some, the return home can be as painful as war itself. FRONTLINE tells the stories of soldiers who have come home haunted by their experiences and asks whether the government is doing enough to help

Synopsis http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/company/etc/synopsis.html

Transcript http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/company/etc/script.html

FAQs http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/company/faqs/

Readings and links http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/company/etc/links.html

Producer's notebook http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/company/etc/notebook.html

Glossary http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/company/etc/glossary.html

Innovating and improvising http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/company/lessons/ . Interview: Sgt. Garcia http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/company/interviews/garcia.html

Interview: Pfc. Morgan http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/company/interviews/morgan.html

Interview: Pvt. Reyes http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/company/interviews/reyes.html

Interview: Capt. Whiteley http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/company/interviews/whiteley.html

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/haditha/
 * Rules of Engagement**

Video http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/haditha/

FRONTLINE cuts through the fog of war to reveal the untold story of what happened in Haditha, Iraq -- where twenty-four of the town's residents were killed by U.S. forces in what many in the media branded "Iraq's My Lai." With accusations swirling that the Marines massacred Iraqi civilians "in cold blood," the Haditha incident has led to one of the largest criminal cases against U.S. troops in the Iraq war. But real questions have emerged about what really happened that day, and who is responsible. Through television interviews with Iraqi survivors and Marines accused of war crimes, FRONTLINE investigates this incident and what it can tell us about the harrowing moral and legal landscape the U.S. military faces in Iraq.

Synopsis http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/haditha/etc/synopsis.html

Update on court martials http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/haditha/etc/update.html

Transcript http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/haditha/etc/script.html

Site map http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/haditha/etc/sitemap.html

Quiz []

Readings and links http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/haditha/etc/links.html

Interviews http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/haditha/interviews/

Analysis http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/haditha/themes/

[]
 * Bad Voodoo's War**

Video http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/badvoodoo/

In June 2007, as the American military surge reached its peak, a band of National Guard infantrymen who call themselves "The Bad Voodoo Platoon" was deployed to Iraq. To capture a vivid, first-person account of the new realities of war in Iraq for FRONTLINE and ITVS, director Deborah Scranton (The War Tapes) created "a virtual embed" with the platoon, supplying cameras to the soldiers so they could record and tell the story of their war. The film intimately tracks the veteran soldiers of "Bad Voodoo" through the daily grind of their perilous mission, dodging deadly IEDs, grappling with the political complexities of dealing with Iraqi security forces, and battling their fatigue and their fears.

The Men of Bad Voodoo http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/badvoodoo/men/

Video extras http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/badvoodoo/video/

Transcript http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/badvoodoo/etc/script.html

Q & A with film director http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/badvoodoo/etc/producer.html

Exploring the world of milblogs http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/badvoodoo/etc/milblogs.html

[]
 * The Soldier's Heart**

Video http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/showsheart/

In November 2004, a FRONTLINE production team embedded with the soldiers of the 1-8 Cavalry's Dog Company in south Baghdad to document the day-to-day realities of a life-and-death military mission that also includes rebuilding Iraq's infrastructure, promoting its economic development, and building positive relations with its people. Filming began three days after the Fallujah campaign was launched in November 2004. There was a surge in violence as an insurgent group, thought to have come from Ramadi, launched a series of ambushes and attacks in Dog Company's sector.

Synopsis http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/heart/etc/synopsis.html

Transcript http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/heart/etc/script.html

Readings and links http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/heart/readings/

The Literature of War http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/heart/readings/lit.html

Analysis http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/heart/themes/

A reporter's journey http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/heart/lucey/

Interviews http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/heart/interviews/

Updates http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/heart/etc/updates.html

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/woundedplatoon/
 * The Wounded Platoon**

Video http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/woundedplatoon/

FRONTLINE profiles a single Fort Carson platoon of infantrymen -- the 3rd Platoon, Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 506th Infantry -- and finds a group of young men changed by war. Many battle a range of psychiatric disorders, and since returning from Iraq, three members of the 3rd Platoon have been convicted on murder or attempted murder charges; one has been jailed for drunk driving and another for assaulting his wife; and one has attempted suicide. The investigation also examines an overwhelmed military mental health system -- at Fort Carson the rate of PTSD diagnosis has risen 4,000 percent since 2002 -- and the widespread use of prescription psychiatric drugs both at home and in combat.

Film update to the website http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/woundedplatoon/

Platoon roster http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/woundedplatoon/roster/

Synopsis http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/woundedplatoon/etc/synopsis.html

Transcript http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/woundedplatoon/etc/script.html

Site Map []

Interviews http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/woundedplatoon/interviews/

Readings and links http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/woundedplatoon/etc/links.html

The Journey http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/woundedplatoon/journey/

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/insurgency/
 * The Insurgency**

Video http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/insurgency/

Kidnappings. Suicide bombers. Beheadings. Roadside bombs. The Iraqi insurgency continues to challenge the most highly trained and best-equipped military in the world. FRONTLINE peels back the layers and gets beyond the propaganda to take a complex look inside the multi-faceted insurgency in Iraq. The investigation includes special access to insurgent leaders, as well as commanders of Iraqi and U.S. military units battling for control of the country and detailed analysis from journalists who have risked their lives to meet insurgent leaders and their foot soldiers. FRONTLINE explores the battle for one Iraqi town and presents vivid testimony from civilians whose families were targeted by the insurgents.

Site Map http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/insurgency/etc/sitemap.html

Synopsis http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/insurgency/etc/synopsis.html

Transcript http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/insurgency/etc/script.html

Can the insurgency be defeated? (Kalev Sepp) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/insurgency/can/

Rules of Engagement Quiz http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/haditha/etc/quiz.html

Junior Officers innovating and improvising using CAVNET http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/company/lessons/

Readings and Links http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/insurgency/etc/links.html

Interview: Colonel H.R. McMaster http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/insurgency/interviews/mcmaster.html

Interview with Michael Ware http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/insurgency/interviews/ware.html

Debaathification http://www.cfr.org/iraq/iraq-debaathification/p7853

What is driving the insurgency (Council on Foreign Relations) http://www.cfr.org/iraq/iraq-insurgency-goals/p8117

U.S. military is split on insurgency strategy http://articles.latimes.com/2006/may/13/world/fg-insurgency13

Iraq's insurgency after Zarqawi [killed 7 June 2006] (Council on Foreign Relations) http://www.cfr.org/iraq/iraqs-insurgency-after-zarqawi/p10880

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 * Beyond Baghdad**

As the Bush administration struggles to right its Iraq policy, FRONTLINE correspondent Martin Smith travels across the Iraqi-Turkish border to Kurdish Mosul and Kirkuk, across the rebellious Sunni lands of central Iraq to Baghdad and finally farther south to the sacred Shia cities of Karbala and Najaf, to take a long, hard look at the Iraq to which the president vows to bring democracy. In this diverse and fractured land can his experiment work? Through encounters with tribal sheiks, ayatollahs, politicians, aid workers, soldiers, and U.S. authorities, the film reveals just what the United States is facing.

Synopsis http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/beyond/etc/synopsis.html

Iraqis and Americans http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/beyond/iraqis/

A Long Road http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/beyond/dispatches/

Transcript http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/beyond/etc/script.html

Readings and links Go through these carefully http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/beyond/etc/links.html

Map (great) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/beyond/etc/map.html

Interviews http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/beyond/interviews/ Get the Iraqi side Odierno and Petraeus are both Major Generals


 * AFGHANISTAN**

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/warbriefing/
 * The War Briefing**
 * [**for next President (2008)]

Video http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/warbriefing/

The next president of the United States will inherit some of the greatest foreign policy challenges in American history -- an overstretched military, frayed alliances, and wars on two fronts. FRONTLINE gives viewers a hard, inside look at the real policy choices the next president will face. The report features strategists and diplomats giving their best advice about how to correct past failures and how to shape a realistic foreign policy approach in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Synopsis http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/warbriefing/etc/synopsis.html

Site map http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/warbriefing/etc/sitemap.html

Readings and links http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/warbriefing/etc/links.html

Transcript http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/warbriefing/etc/script.html

Interviews http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/warbriefing/interviews/ Robert Kaplan http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/warbriefing/interviews/kaplan.html Steve Coll http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/warbriefing/interviews/coll.html

On the Ground http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/warbriefing/etc/qa.html

Map of tribal lands in Pakistan http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/taliban/tribal/map.html

Readings and links [good material] http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/warbriefing/etc/links.html

What the next President will face? http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/warbriefing/themes/president.html

The Karzai question http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/warbriefing/themes/karzai.html

The new Pakistani Taliban http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/warbriefing/themes/taliban.html

A strategy for the tribal areas http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/warbriefing/themes/tribal.html

Any lessons we can grab from Iraq? http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/warbriefing/themes/iraq.html


 * AFGHANISTAN**

This seems really good http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/campaign/
 * Campaign against terror**

In this two-hour special, FRONTLINE recounts for the first time on television the behind-the-scenes story of the U.S. and world response to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on America. Featuring interviews with key U.S. players and world leaders, "Campaign Against Terror" examines the complex diplomatic maneuvering that led to an international coalition against Al Qaeda and the Taliban. From the initial bombing raids to the futile hunt for Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda leaders in the caves of Tora Bora, the documentary traces the dramatic ups and downs of the ground war in Afghanistan as seen through the eyes of Pentagon leaders, U.S. Special Forces troops and Afghan rebel leaders in the Northern Alliance. Finally, "Campaign Against Terror" tracks the intricate political wrangling that led to the selection of Hamid Karzai -- America's preferred candidate -- as the new Afghan leader.

Synopsis http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/campaign/etc/synopsis.html

On the ground: war stories Lots of good material in this link http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/campaign/ground/

Assessing the campaign http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/campaign/assess/

With us or against us http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/campaign/withus/

Chronology http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/campaign/etc/cron.html

Interviews http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/campaign/interviews/

Readings and links http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/campaign/etc/links.html

Transcript http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/campaign/etc/script.html

Epilogue http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/campaign/etc/epilogue.html

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/search/
 * In Search of Al Qaeda**

Within three months of Sept. 11, the War on Terror had succeeded in crushing the Taliban. But many of the operation's primary targets -- members of Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda network of international terrorists -- managed to escape into neighboring Pakistan. FRONTLINE examines the quest to bring the terrorist group to justice in "In Search of Al Qaeda." The one-hour documentary follows the trail of Al Qaeda from the Afghan border areas into Pakistan's cities as U.S. and Pakistani authorities begin to track down some of the network's leaders. The journey continues to other Middle Eastern countries, where local villagers, officials, and others are interviewed about what has happened to Al Qaeda and its efforts to regroup.

Synopsis http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/search/etc/synopsis.html

Transcript http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/search/etc/script.html

Interviews http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/search/interviews/

Readings and links http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/search/etc/links.html

Producer's dispatches from the field http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/search/behind/

Ground Zero: Pakistan http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/search/etc/weaver.html

Inside Pakistan's tribal areas http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/search/tribal/

The lawless frontier http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2000/09/the-lawless-frontier/305296/

Mapping the journey http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/search/journey/

The education of a holy warrior http://www.nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/20000625mag-taliban.html

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/taliban/
 * The Return of the Taliban**

FRONTLINE reports from the lawless Pakistani tribal areas along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border and reveals how the area has fallen under the control of a resurgent Taliban militia, which uses it as a launching pad for attacks on U.S. and coalition forces in Afghanistan. Despite the presence of more than 70,000 Pakistani troops, the border region is at the nucleus of the global war on terror, according to U.S. officials. The area, off limits to U.S. troops by agreement with Pakistan's president and long suspected of harboring Osama bin Laden and his deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri, is now considered a failed state. President Pervez Musharraf tells FRONTLINE reporter Martin Smith that Pakistan's strategy, which includes cash payments to militants who lay down their arms, has clearly foundered. In a region little understood because it is closed to most observers, FRONTLINE investigates a secret front in the war on terror.

Synopsis http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/taliban/etc/synopsis.html

Transcript http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/taliban/etc/script.html

Site map []

A night letter http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/taliban/etc/nightletter.html

Readings and links http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/taliban/etc/links.html

Interviews http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/taliban/interviews/ Steve Coll http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/taliban/interviews/coll.html

Pakistan: Jihad's seedbed [several articles in this section] http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/taliban/pakistan/

Inside the tribal areas Map Winston Churchill http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/taliban/tribal/

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 * Obama's War**

Video http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/obamaswar/

Tens of thousands of fresh American troops are now on the move in Afghanistan, led by a new commander and armed with a counterinsurgency plan that builds on the lessons of Iraq. But can U.S. forces succeed in a land long known as the "graveyard of empires"? FRONTLINE producers Martin Smith (Beyond Baghdad, Return of the Taliban) and Marcela Gaviria (In Search of Al Qaeda, The War Briefing) once again make the dangerous journey to the front lines of America's biggest fight. Through interviews with the top U.S. commanders on the ground, embeds with U.S. forces and fresh reporting from Washington, Smith and Gaviria examine U.S. counterinsurgency strategy in Afghanistan and Pakistan -- a fight that promises to be longer and more costly than most Americans understand.

Synopsis http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/obamaswar/etc/synopsis.html

Transcript http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/obamaswar/etc/script.html

Chronology http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/obamaswar/etc/cron.html

Themes http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/obamaswar/themes/ Afghanistan and the counterinsurgency war http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/obamaswar/themes/counter.html Pakistan: the hardest problem of all http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/obamaswar/themes/pakistan.html The push into Helmand province http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/obamaswar/themes/helmand.html Obama's new strategu http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/obamaswar/themes/strategy.html

Readings and links [dig into the wonderful material in this link] http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/obamaswar/etc/links.html

Map http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/obamaswar/etc/map.html

Interviews [numerous good interviews in this link] http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/obamaswar/interviews/