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March 12, 2013

The Iraq War That Might Have Been

Gordon & Trainor, Foreign Policy

NBC

In October 2003, a team of Pentagon intelligence analysts identified a promising twist in a war that seemed to be going terribly wrong: Sunni tribal leaders in Iraq's hostile Anbar province had come forward with offers to help secure western Iraq.

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TAGGED: Counter-Insurgency, Iraq

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