Zapatero continues his attempts to ignore the progress which has been made in Iraq in the past months. In order to clearly understand the why, the how, and the when of the war in Iraq, as well as its complete process of development up until today, it is necessary to remember some basic matters. Download PDF Descargar PDF

The issue of influx of foreign Salafist jihadists has become a well-known reality since September 2007. Everyone seems to think that if this influx were stopped, it would substantially contribute to the resolution of this conflict. Because of this new reality, it is potentially easier to fight back. Anthony H. Cordesman’s very well-documented analyses, published by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington D.C.,have contributed the understanding ofcomplex issues such as the mysteries of Salafist jihadist terrorism on Iraqi soil [1. However, the intervention by Coalition forces last September in Sinjar, about 10 kilometers from the Syrian border, unraveled a substantial file with more than 700 incidences of foreign jihadists arriving in the country since August 2006. Download PDF Descargar PDF

Lately the Iraq war –or the European media’s interpretation of it –has somewhat altered our perception of the powerful nation. To be specific, in Spain people consider America the cause of a provocation that generated the biggest attack ever perpetrated in Europe. In the face of such deduction, one can only be amazed to still find around 30% of my fellow citizens with a positive opinion of the United States. Download PDF Descargar PDF

This report, the second in a series, describes the purpose, course, and results of Coalition operations in Baghdad during the first three weeks of Operation Enforcing the Law (also known as the Baghdad Security Plan), from General Petraeus' assumption of command on February 10, 2007, through March 5. It describes the flow of American and Iraqi forces into Baghdad; American and Iraqi command relationships; the efforts of those forces to prepare positions and develop intelligence in critical neighborhoods; the limited clearing operations that the forces already in Baghdad have conducted; and operations against the so-called Mahdi army, or Jaysh al Mahdi, in Baghdad. Download PDF

Writing of the decline of the West — and the United States in particular — has been a parlor game from the time of doomsayers Oswald Spengler and Arnold Toynbee to Paul Kennedy’s pessimism of the 1980s. Now the most recent serial epitaphs center on the Anglo-American experience in Iraq that will soon end, it is foretold, in defeat and a global loss of American prestige to the detriment of the West at large. Download PDF

This edition of the Iraq Report reviews the nature of the mission, the concept of operations, the enemy, the terrain, the timing of events, and some aspects of the civilian population during early 2007. It demonstrates how events in the provinces and in the outskirts of Baghdad influence events in the capital. From open sources, the Iraq Report shows the nature of the al Qaeda network in Iraq, and some aspects of how and where it is now functioning. It discusses some significant military engagements in Diyala Province, in Baghdad, and in Najaf. Download PDF

Now it can be told. The Democrats do have a plan for victory in Iraq. It is as simple as it is brilliant — confuse, confound and surprise the enemy. Download PDF

German Chancellor Angela Merkel visited US President George W Bush in Washington on 4 January, just days after Germany assumed the rotating presidencies of the European Union and the Group of Eight major industrialized nations. Merkel said the visit was supposed to be a signal that transatlantic relations would be an important issue for Germany during its six months as leader of Europe and the G-8. Download PDF

Now that Democrats are about to take control of the American Congress, many European left-wingers are hoping that the United States will soon begin pulling its troops out of Iraq so that the Middle East can return to the utopia of peace and stability concocted by their collective imagination. Unlike their European counterparts, however, even most Democrats understand that a precipitous American pullout from Iraq would create a power vacuum that would lead to bloodshed on an unprecedented scale. Many thoughtful Democrats also seem to understand better than European lefties that a hasty American withdrawal from Iraq would be viewed as a propaganda victory for Al-Qaeda, which in turn would greatly increase the likelihood of more terrorist attacks on European (not American) soil. Download PDF

Spending time in the United States after a tour of Iraq can be a disorienting experience these days. Within hours of arriving here, as I can attest from a recent visit, one is confronted with an image of Iraq that is unrecognizable. Download PDF Descargar PDF

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