Nir Rosen - Aftermath

West Point

Widows, number of

Wilder, Andrew

al-Windawi, Mouayad

Winds of Victory (video)

Wolf Brigade

Wolfowitz, Paul

Women

in Afghanistan

attending markets, issue of

with “bad” reputations, targeting

clothing covering, in Jordan

held as hostages by Americans

imposing strict interpretation of Islam on

militias and

in prison, treatment of

using, in anti-regime operations

World Trade Center bombing

Yakan, Fathi

Yamin, Firas (Abu Omar)

al-Yaqoubi, Muhammad

Yaqubi Camp

Yarmuk

Yarmuk refugee camp

Yazid (son of Muawiya)

Yemen

Younes, Kristele

Zafraniya

al-Zarqawi, Abu Musab

See also Al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI)

al-Zawahiri, Ayman

al-Zeidi, Muntadhar

Zeinab (daughter of Ali)

Zia ul-Madaris al-Faruqia religious school

Zionists, perceived strategy of

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Rosen, Nir, 1977-

Aftermath : following the bloodshed of America’s wars in the muslim world / Nir Rosen.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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1. Iraq War, 2003—Social aspects. 2. Iraq War, 2003—Influence. 3. Iraq—Social conditions—21st century. 4. Iraq—Politics and government—2003- 5. Iraq—Strategic aspects. 6. Middle East—Strategic aspects. 7. Islam and politics—Middle East. I. Title.

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Another soldier told me: “I spent a lot of time thinking about COIN prior to leaving the U.S. I read U.S. Army Field Manual FM 3-24 Counterinsurgency, as well as books by David Galula, Roger Trinquier, and Sir Frank Kitson, and thought long and hard about how to apply these lessons to our area of Baghdad, especially in terms of how intelligence was central to successful COIN. Of course, once we arrived in Baghdad, a lot of this was put aside, unfortunately, as we were taken away by events. Soldiers were being injured and our area seemed to be out of control, so the emphasis shifted from applying good COIN techniques to just responding to what was happening. We never really gained the initiative in that first area. Indeed, it took us about sixty days or so to really get back to the COIN basics that we had read about. Once we began to apply these lessons, things changed in our favor, and never turned back.”