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BusinessWeek March 15, 2004 Stanley Reed	Iraq: Why The Bombers Won't Win The Day The identities of those who organized the bombings that killed more than 200 people in Karbala and Baghdad on Mar. 2 may be obscure, but their motives are clear. The bombers want to frighten the Shiites into dialing back their political aspirations, and they want to plunge Iraq into the chaos of a sectarian civil war.
BusinessWeek December 29, 2003 Stanley Reed	Forging One Nation From Three Agendas What's the best way to bring Iraq's Shiites, Sunnis, and Kurds together under a cohesive democracy?
BusinessWeek January 31, 2005 Stanley Reed	Iraq: After the Election, It Won't Get Easier Despite continued violence, Iraq's planned Jan. 30 election looks set to occur. It's unlikely to be either the decisive turning point the Bush Administration once hoped for or the unmitigated disaster critics predict.
BusinessWeek June 21, 2004 Stanley Reed	Will Iraq's Allawi Use An Iron Fist? Iraq under Ayad Allawi might come to resemble other tightly policed Arab states.
BusinessWeek February 21, 2005 Stanley Reed	Mosque And State: Just How Close? Iraq's new government may be more influenced by Islam than the U.S. hoped.
BusinessWeek November 17, 2003 Stanley Reed	Iraq: Repeating A Painful History The British made many of the same nation-building mistakes in the 1920s as the US is making now in Iraq.
BusinessWeek August 25, 2003 Stanley Reed	Who's the Real Enemy in Iraq? Until the U.S. learns to distinguish friend from foe, it'll keep alienating more and more Iraqis
Salon.com September 6, 2002 Asla Aydintasbas	The Kurdish dilemma Barham Salih, prime minister of Northern Iraq's Kurdistan regional government, talks about the recent attempt on his life, why he wants a regime change in Baghdad and what should happen in the days after Saddam is deposed.
Parameters Autumn 2008 William Mcdonough	Time for a New Strategy The Surge Strategy proposed by George W. Bush in 2007 has accomplished the majority of its goals and now is the time to significantly reduce the US presence in Iraq.
BusinessWeek April 26, 2004 Stanley Reed	Hearts, Minds, And Mistakes How can the U.S. win back the goodwill it lost in Iraq? First, empower the Iraqis
BusinessWeek February 16, 2004 Stanley Reed	Will A Shiite Split Bring Chaos In Iraq? Huge political battles lie ahead. The trick will be to keep them from spilling into the streets.
Parameters Autumn 2004 Bill Park	Iraq's Kurds and Turkey: Challenges for US Policy The pieces of the jigsaw thrown up by the US-led regime change in Baghdad are yet to hit the ground, and Washington might yet have to reap what it has sown--in Kurdistan in particular.
Reason June 2006	Three Views on Iraq, Three Years Later In May 2003 George W. Bush declared "mission accomplished" in Iraq. A trio of analysts debates the current state of the region: Why I Supported the Iraq War... You Can't Bring Order to the Middle East... Six Facts About Iraq...
Parameters Summer 2005 Christopher M. Ford	Speak No Evil: Targeting a Population's Neutrality to Defeat an Insurgency Using Iraq as a model, this article seeks to examine the relationship between the people and the insurgency, with the ultimate questions being: What role does the civilian population play in the insurgency, and how can this situation be influenced to achieve success?
BusinessWeek April 26, 2004	A Talk With Iraq's Defense Chief Ali Allawi speaks out on the uprising, America's role, and investment prospects in Iraq.
BusinessWeek May 17, 2004	A Talk With Iraq's Finance Minister Iraqi Finance Minister reports the country is mainly stable and ready to grow, and he thinks the sooner the government becomes one of Iraq for Iraqis, the better.
BusinessWeek April 26, 2004 Crock et al.	A Most Dangerous Moment Can the U.S. restore order -- and engineer a credible transition to Iraqi sovereignty? How many troops are needed, and how many are available?
Smithsonian December 2005 Andrew Cockburn	Iraq's Resilient Minority Shaped by persecution, tribal strife and an unforgiving landscape, Iraq's Kurds have put their dream of independence on hold -- for now.
Salon.com March 20, 2002 Hadani Ditmars	Denis Halliday The former head of the U.N.'s humanitarian program in Iraq says an American invasion would be an international crime -- and would make the U.S. even less safe...
BusinessWeek April 26, 2004 Bruce Nussbaum	It's Time To Shelve The Rumsfeld Doctrine Denial is rampant in Washington. There is denial that intelligence mistakes were made in the months and years before September 11. There is denial that foreign policy mistakes were made in the runup to the war in Iraq.
Parameters Spring 2007 Anthony J. Schwarz	Iraq's Militias: The True Threat to Coalition Success in Iraq Analysis of the historical, political, and religious roots underlying the growth of extremism in Iraq
Reason September 2006 Michael J. Totten	The Kurds Go Their Own Way Can freedom flower in Iraqi Kurdistan?
BusinessWeek December 29, 2003 Crock et al.	That's One Problem Solved Saddam's capture is a big break for the U.S. -- but the road to a stable Iraq remains long and treacherous.
BusinessWeek June 21, 2004 Stanley Reed	Waiting For The Oil To Flow Again Not only is Iraq years from achieving its potential of producing 6 million barrels a day, but it is also still struggling to achieve its prewar output of 2.5 million -- let alone the 3.5 million or so it produced before the 1979 war with Iran.
National Defense September 2005 Sandra Erwin	Defense Dept. Rhetoric Reflects War Frustrations Defense officials know so little about the insurgency American troops are combating in Iraq they decided that detailed information about the enemy, such as its strength and capabilities, is not all that important to winning the war.
National Defense October 2004 Joe Pappalardo	U.S. Moves to Rearm Iraq The U.S. government--following an extended delay--is aggressively moving to train and equip Iraqi security forces to provide for the internal and external defense of that war torn nation.
BusinessWeek September 13, 2004	"You Can't Afford To Let Threats Gather" (extended) Condoleezza Rice on how Bush would address security issues in a second term.
Reason March 2004 Steven Vincent	Faith, Shame, and Insurgency After visiting Iraq, the author still supports the war -- even more so, in fact. But he is less optimistic now.
National Defense January 2006 Sandra I. Erwin	Complex Realities Lie Behind U.S. Rush to Train Iraqi Army It has become crystal clear that fielding a competent Iraqi Army is a tenet of the U.S. exit strategy. What is far less apparent is what exactly constitutes a competent Iraqi fighting force, and how long it will be before it can relieve American troops.
Salon.com September 24, 2002 Ian Williams	Bush to Arab world: Drop dead Driven by right-wing ideologues and his own zeal, President Bush has taken Ariel Sharon's side in the Middle East even while plotting a war with Iraq. Foreign policy experts say that's a dangerous combination.
The Motley Fool October 30, 2010 Priyanka Banerjee	Google Goes to Iraq A research team sees the nation lagging behind in Internet access and wants to help.
Salon.com August 3, 2002 Anthony York	Crazy like a desert fox Saddam's plea to the U.N. is completely phony. But it could be effective.
ifeminists February 11, 2003 Wendy McElroy	Iraqi Women Brutalized by Saddam Before and after Sept. 11, politically correct feminists crusaded for Afghan women oppressed by the Taliban. By contrast, little outrage has been expressed over the treatment of Iraqi women under Saddam Hussein.
BusinessWeek January 12, 2004 Stanley Reed	The Kurds' New Cause Rivals are uniting behind economic growth in the northern Iraqi region.
Parameters Summer 2008 Robert M. Chamberlain	With Friends Like These: Grievance, Governance, and Capacity-Building in COIN This article questions the assumption that enhancing the power of the state will make the population less likely to support insurgents.
BusinessWeek May 24, 2004 Crock & McNamee	How Long To "Stay The Course" In Iraq? Approval for the Bush Administration's open-ended commitment to its Iraq mission is eroding.
Parameters Spring 2006 Wade Markel	Draining the Swamp: The British Strategy of Population Control Thirty years after the end of the Vietnam War, the U.S. and its Army again find themselves confronted with a tenacious insurgency, this time in Iraq. Here's a look at Britain's victory in Malaya as a model to emulate.
Salon.com September 22, 2001 Anthony York	How big a war? Hawk Paul Wolfowitz wants the U.S. to attack Iraq. Colin Powell doesn't -- and nobody knows who has Bush's ear...
Reason February 2008 Jim Henley	Open-Source Warfare In Brave New War: The Next Stage of Terrorism and the End of Globalization, author John Robb argues, persuasively, that the nation-state's instinctive acts of self-preservation will prove not just useless but counterproductive.
Popular Mechanics March 15, 2010 Joe Pappalardo	Hollywood Fact Check: How Realistic Is Iraq War Film Green Zone? The military conspiracy-thriller Green Zone, a policy debate masquerading as an action movie, has a premise that invites scrutiny.
Outside October 2004 Patrick Graham	Jamboree Jihad A former CIA agent is on his strangest mission yet: starting Boy Scout and Girl Scout programs in Iraq.
BusinessWeek June 18, 2009 Spencer E. Ante	Twitter Diplomacy The U.S. State Dept. is enlisting Silicon Valley companies such as Google and Twitter to help bring high tech to Iraq and Afghanistan.
National Defense February 2005 Roxana Tiron	Iraqi Special Forces Need More Training, Equipment Iraqi commando units, known as special forces, continue to be hampered by equipment and training shortcomings, a Washington think tank expert contends.
Parameters Autumn 2007 Christopher M. Schnaubelt	Whither the RMA? The present Department of Defense (DOD) focus on technological solutions to increase capabilities may be misguided by a vision of a high-tech Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA).
Salon.com June 18, 2002 Laura Miller	Before Baghdad burns The author of a new book on Iraq cautions that a U.S. invasion to get rid of Saddam Hussein could be even more dangerous than his weapons of mass destruction.
Parameters Autumn 2006 Raymond L. Bingham	Bridging the Religious Divide Academicians, east and west, hotly debate the fundaments of the war on terror. In our nation's capital, decision-makers and renowned scholars meet regularly to posit the pros and cons of U.S. foreign policy.
IEEE Spectrum March 2006 Glenn Zorpette	Working in a War Zone Working in Iraq isn't for everybody. Nevertheless, over the past three years, a few thousand engineers of many nationalities have gone to work on the country's massive, $60 billion reconstruction. Here's a sample of what they encounter.
Smithsonian May 2007 Stephen J. Glain	Welcome to Rawda Iraqi artists find freedom of expression at Rawda, a coffee house in the Al Sahin district of Damascus, Syria.
Reason April 2006 Michael Young	How Did Iraq Go Wrong? In The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq, by George Packer, liberal hawks blame incompetence but sidestep American narcissism.
Parameters Winter 2006/2007 Martin J. Muckian	Structural Vulnerabilities of Networked Insurgencies: Adapting to the New Adversary The ongoing conflict in Iraq has sparked a renewed interest in the study of counterinsurgency, leading many to comb the wars of the twentieth century for lessons that can be applied to today. Much of this recent analysis has focused on the knowledge gained from fighting Marxist revolutionaries.