Iraq War News 02-JUL-08 en-us Baghdad (AFP) July 1, 2008 - MPs from Iraq's parliament went into a closed session with the country's foreign minister on Tuesday to discuss the controversial long-term security pact with Washington.]]> ]]> Washington (UPI) Jun 30, 2008 - The suppression of violence and the reduction in U.S. casualties in Iraq over the past year and a half was not U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker's or U.S. Army Gen. David Petraeus' accomplishment. It was achieved by the Islamic Republic of Iran.]]> Washington (UPI) Jun 27, 2008 - In his famous work "The Peloponnesian Wars," written more than 2,000 years ago, the classical Greek historian Thucydides argued that states go to war for one or all of three reasons. States fight against threats. States fight for profit. Or, states fight for honor. (Douglas Macgregor is a former U.S. Army colonel and a decorated Gulf War combat veteran. He has authored three books on modern warfare and military reform. His latest is "Transformation Under Fire: Revolutionizing the Way America Fights." He writes here for the Straus Military Reform Project at the Center for Defense Information in Washington.)]]> Kabul (AFP) June 29, 2008 - A British soldier with NATO forces in Afghanistan has been killed in a mine blast in the troubled southern province of Helmand, the defence ministry in London and the alliance said Sunday.]]> ]]> Washington (UPI) Jun 27, 2008 - For a long time now, much of the discussion of the use of private contractors on the battlefield and war zones has been sensationalistic and not particularly helpful. Either contractors are just patriots helping out their former comrades, as most of them are former military themselves, or they are just war profiteering money-grubbers who trample on human rights. Neither view is correct.]]> Ramadi, Iraq (AFP) June 26, 2008 - At least 38 people were killed in two massive bomb attacks in Iraq on Thursday, as three US marines and two interpreters were slain by insurgents west of Baghdad, officials said.]]> Joint Base Balad, Iraq (AFNS) Jun 24, 2008 - Some Airmen here have jobs to predict the future. They don't predict winning lottery numbers or the location of a special someone; combat weather forecasters predict something more precious to flight operations than money or love -- they predict the weather.]]> ]]> Washington (AFP) June 23, 2008 - Security continued to improve in Iraq from March to May, with violence at its lowest level in four years, but the gains are "fragile, reversible and uneven," a quarterly Pentagon report said Monday.]]> Washington (UPI) Jun 23, 2008 - U.S. Air Force policy states, and experts agree, that two of the most important ways in which the service can contribute to the military's new mission in irregular warfare are through surveillance and partnership -- building the air power of U.S. allies. ]]> Washington (UPI) Jun 23, 2008 - The case of CACI, the private military contractor that became notorious after its employees were investigated over allegations of torture at the U.S. military detention center at Abu Ghraib, seems to challenge the proposition that there is no such thing as bad publicity.]]> ]]> ]]> Amara, Iraq (AFP) June 18, 2008 - Dozens of Shiite militiamen surrendered to Iraqi forces on Wednesday hours before a deadline set by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki for them to lay down their arms ahead of a new military crackdown.]]> Washington (UPI) Jun 18, 2008 - To make the U.S. Air Force more relevant to the military's new counterinsurgency mission, experts say, the new leadership of the service has to "reinvent itself," look for alternatives to high-cost, high-tech, fuel-guzzling aircraft, and break out of its decades-long planning and procurement cycle to become a more agile, diverse force.]]> Baghdad (UPI) Jun 18, 2008 - Al Herman is no diplomat. His choice words are frank, sometimes unprintable, and usually effective.]]> Advertise in Space War and reach thousands of industry, government and science readers the world over.

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