Who is Fighting Whom? How and Why? [Archive]

AQI and Iraqi Shi'ites (2 replies)
A Strategic Plan to Improve the Political Position of the Islamic State of Iraq (1 replies)
Criminals, Militias, and Insurgents: Organized Crime in Iraq (1 replies)
Dinner with Al Qaeda without precondition (10 replies)
Inside the Surge: 1-5 Cavalry in Ameriyah (0 replies)
Battle of Sufia Video (0 replies)
Multi-National Force-Iraq Commander’s COIN Guidance (10 replies)
DDR in Iraq - UN/NGO efforts (0 replies)
The War We Have (0 replies)
Abu Ayyub al-Masri Captured in Iraq (11 replies)
Iraqi Non-Lethal Contributions to the Counterinsurgency (0 replies)
Insurgent Video Targets Blackwater (32 replies)
Observations from a Year in the Sunni Triangle (0 replies)
The Basrah Gambit (60 replies)
Clerics most influential leaders in Iraq; Reconciliation could be near (0 replies)
Misreading the History of the Iraq War (32 replies)
Iranian Infiltration of Iraq (10 replies)
The Patton of Counterinsurgency (11 replies)
The Myth of the Surge - Nir Rosen (5 replies)
Our Troops Did Not Fail in 2006 (16 replies)
DoD Press Briefing 17 Jan 08 (0 replies)
This is what victory looks like (22 replies)
Ameriyah update (1 replies)
Hakim-Sadr Pact: A New Era in Shiite Politics? (3 replies)
USIP Facilitates Groundbreaking Sunni-Shia Collaboration (0 replies)
We Didn't Kill Enough Iraqis? (19 replies)
How George Bush became the new Saddam (3 replies)
The Terrorists of Iraq (6 replies)
Center of Gravity in Iraq (9 replies)
"Resistance is a normal thing, and a right for everyone." (1 replies)
How the West was Won (well, at least Ramadi) (37 replies)
Suicide Bombers in Iraq (7 replies)
Anatomy of a Tribal Revolt (7 replies)
Iraqi insurgents taking cut of US rebuilding money (0 replies)
Children doing battle in Iraq (5 replies)
Sectarian death toll doubles in 2007 (4 replies)
Fight on Donkey Island (2 replies)
Taking on the Shiites (1 replies)
Brian Fishman and Fawaz Gerges on Iraq (0 replies)
COIN in a Tribal Society (4 replies)
No Kiddin!!! (0 replies)
Mistrust as Iraqi Troops Encounter New U.S. Allies (1 replies)
Al Qaeda in Iraq (43 replies)
The Illogic of American Military Strategy in Iraq (36 replies)
Americans In Iraq (3 replies)
Could Someone Please Explain the "Surge Strategy" to Me (24 replies)
U.S. Strategy on Sunnis Questioned (17 replies)
Iraq, Baquba, Arrowhead Ripper, and the Real Elements of Victory (15 replies)
Is Iraq the Next Gaza? (16 replies)
Samarra Mosque Attacked Again (8 replies)
Tom Ricks's Inbox (0 replies)
For U.S. Unit in Baghdad, An Alliance of Last Resort (11 replies)
Baghdad's Green Zone Is a Haven Under Siege (1 replies)
Iraq’s Curse: A Thirst for Final, Crushing Victory (0 replies)
Attacks on U.S. Troops in Iraq Grow in Lethality, Complexity (6 replies)
Sunnis revolt against al-Qaida in Iraq (25 replies)
US reaches out to Iraq insurgents after bloody month (2 replies)
Iraqi Ethnic Tensions Stoke Insurgency in Mosul (6 replies)
Five Britons kidnapped from Iraqi Finance Ministry, Baghdad (1 replies)
Morgue Data Show Increase in Sectarian Killings in Iraq (0 replies)
Battling al Qaeda in Iraq (0 replies)
News Unfit To Print (14 replies)
An Iraq To-Do List (2 replies)
U.S. Sweeps Iraq Seeking 3 Soldiers Missing in Attack (2 replies)
Know Thy Enemies (0 replies)
U.S. Forces Fight for Iraqis' Hearts, Minds (3 replies)
Insurgencies Like Iraq's Usually Last 10 Years But Fail, Study Says (8 replies)
What is the bottom line? (2 replies)
Uneasy Alliance Tames One Insurgent Bastion (3 replies)
The Urban Tourniquet – “Gated Communities” in Baghdad (7 replies)
Divide seen within Iraq's Ba'ath Party (0 replies)
Al Qaeda on the Offensive (0 replies)
Counterinsurgency Paradigm Shift in Iraq (0 replies)
Baquba Insurgent TTP (7 replies)
Blast Kills 8 at Iraqi Parliament Building (10 replies)
Letter From Downed Pilot's Brother (0 replies)
The Roggio Report (1 replies)
Switching sides? (3 replies)
Islamic Army of Iraq denounces Al-Qaeda in Iraq (21 replies)
McCaffrey Paints Gloomy Picture of Iraq (7 replies)
Insurgents Report a Split with Al Qaeda in Iraq (10 replies)
Maliki frees top Sadr aide, hours after arrest by US forces (0 replies)
How America can survive and even prosper in the 21st Century (12 replies)
Good news -- the insurgency is over! Now we need a new strategy for the Iraq War. (201 replies)
LTG Ray Odierno on New Insurgent TTP (0 replies)
U.S. Troops Mix Sweep, Sweetness in Iraq (0 replies)
Al Qaeda's Outrages Swing Sunnis to U.S. (12 replies)
Al Sadr Fled Iraq, Fearing U.S. Bombs (12 replies)
NPS thesis "An analysis of counterinsurgency in Iraq: Mosul, Ramadi, and Samarra ..." (5 replies)
Iraqi Security Forces Order Of Battle (2 replies)
JAM infiltration of Iraqi Army? (8 replies)
Was the Karbala Kidnapping a Cover to Steal a Military Laptop? (17 replies)
Death Squad Chieftains Flee to Beat Baghdad Surge (4 replies)
Looking at the Surge From the Other Side (5 replies)
The List: The Future of the Insurgency (1 replies)
A cheat sheet on Iraqi players (6 replies)
Canadian allegedly leading insurgency (5 replies)
Why aren't the insurgents hitting the oil pipelines? (5 replies)
Scenarios for the Insurgency in Iraq (3 replies)
Kurdistan IO Email (25 replies)
An Adaptive Insurgency: Confronting Adversary Networks in Iraq (1 replies)
When the Shiites Rise (5 replies)
Poll: Civil War in Iraq - Yes or No? (40 replies)
Muqtada al-Sadr: Spoiler or Stabilizer? (15 replies)
Iraq Considers Arming Insurgents (4 replies)
The Battle of Baghdad (44 replies)
Death of Iraqi Clergy (4 replies)
Iraqi Ethnic Cleansing (0 replies)
Recently captured documents, validate our strategy in Iraq? (1 replies)
General Casey: Levels of Iraqi Sectarian Violence Exaggerated (3 replies)
Rebels' Arsenal Includes Politics (0 replies)
Al Qaeda in Iraq: Demobilizing the Threat (1 replies)
Casualties, the Election, and Insurgency - A “Red Team” View (1 replies)
Najaf... (1 replies)
Iran and Iraq (15 replies)
More Iraqi Battalions 'In the Lead' Against Rebels (0 replies)
Shiite Urges U.S. to Give Iraqis Leeway In Rebel Fight (0 replies)
Profusion of Rebel Groups Helps Them Survive (18 replies)
Resistance Ready to Talk - But Only With US (5 replies)
Making Tribal War Work for the U.S. in Iraq (1 replies)
Ramadi Revisited; Cracks in Jihad (14 replies)
Letter from al-Zawahiri to al-Zarqawi (2 replies)
Iraq's oil minister survives assassination attempt (0 replies)