The Iraq war continues to dominate the domestic as well as foreign news agenda in the United States and Britain. In America, criticism over the inclusion of dubious intelligence findings
The security problems in Iraq discussed in recent weeks in this series of articles have shown no sign of easing, and some Pentagon sources are predicting that they will get
The previous article in this series sought to analyse the nature of the security problems facing US forces in Iraq with the aim of assessing whether a full-scale insurgency
In a speech on 1 July, President Bush acknowledged that US forces would remain in Iraq as a massive and long-term undertaking, facing up to the terrorists, extremists and
At the end of the long cold war, in 1989, the United States suddenly became the worlds sole superpower. The then United States president, George Bush, quickly welcomed the
In view of the rise in US tensions with Iran, the tortuous path of the Israeli-Palestinian roadmap and the questions facing the Tony Blair government in Britain over Iraqi
The most recent articles in this series have pointed to the problems facing US troops in Iraq as they meet unexpected resistance, and have also highlighted their continuing problems in
In the approach to the war in Iraq the US military rapidly expanded its strength across the Gulf region most notably in Kuwait, Jordan, Qatar, the Emirates and Oman, as
Towards the end of the intense and chaotic Iraq war, reports have begun to emerge of large numbers of civilian casualties. While coalition sources played these reports down or ignored
The intensity of armed assaults against western and pro-western targets in the last ten days is at its greatest since the 9/11 attacks in New York and Washington.
A month after the fall of the Saddam Hussein regime and the start of the post-war United States occupation of Iraq, there is disorder and violence in much of
Donald Rumsfelds visit to the Middle East involved only the briefest of stops in Iraq, but it was evidently an occasion for celebrating a famous victory. In doing so,
