Help with Research on M1 Abrams

[Marc]

I am currently researching the combat performance of the M1 Abrams against Iraqi insurgents during Operation Iraqi Freedom. The research is part of my honors research project in military history at the University of Maryland.

I am having difficulties finding much material on this topic. Does anyone on the boards have suggestions as to where I could find some good sources on the Abrams' performance in Iraq? Thanks!

Abrams' performance during the first weeks of OIF:
http://www.dtic.mil/doctrine/jel/jfq_pubs/1539.pdf

Abrams' performance during the second battle of Fallujah:
http://www.cgsc.edu/carl/download/cs...E7817CDC4FD7=1
http://www.angelfire.com/art2/narod/..._terrain_iraq/

Annual OIF OPTEMPO (Miles per year) of Abrams and other combat systems (see slide 14).
http://www.dtic.mil/ndia/2007combatv...ion28810am.pdf

Regards,

Marc

[Fuchs]

Ask CALL, Ft Knox, US Armor association, ...

[andrewlchadwick]

Abrams' performance during the first weeks of OIF:
http://www.dtic.mil/doctrine/jel/jfq_pubs/1539.pdf

Abrams' performance during the second battle of Fallujah:
http://www.cgsc.edu/carl/download/cs...E7817CDC4FD7=1
http://www.angelfire.com/art2/narod/..._terrain_iraq/

Annual OIF OPTEMPO (Miles per year) of Abrams and other combat systems (see slide 14).
http://www.dtic.mil/ndia/2007combatv...ion28810am.pdf

Regards,

Marc

Good stuff! Thanks!

[Cavguy]

http://www.alsa.mil/library/alsb/ALSB%202008-1.pdf - pp 6-9
If you have access through your library to professional journals, check Small Wars & Insurgencies, Volume 21, Issue 3, 519 for an article titled "It's all the Rage" about Armor performance in insurgencies.

The following thread has lots of info and links that you may want:

http://council.smallwarsjournal.com/...ead.php?t=3951

[andrewlchadwick]

http://www.alsa.mil/library/alsb/ALSB%202008-1.pdf - pp 6-9
If you have access through your library to professional journals, check Small Wars & Insurgencies, Volume 21, Issue 3, 519 for an article titled "It's all the Rage" about Armor performance in insurgencies.

The following thread has lots of info and links that you may want:

http://council.smallwarsjournal.com/...ead.php?t=3951

Thanks for the help. I am getting a lot of good data about the Abrams in Iraq, and it’s mostly been positive. The links everybody has provided have been extremely helpful.

As I make my way through the available material on the Abrams in post-Saddam Iraq, I am seeing three main battles that the weapon system played a prominent role in: Najaf (Spring/Summer 2004), Fallujah (November 2004), and the Tal Afar (2005-2006).

In order to keep my paper's length within limits, I am considering focusing my research on these three battles as examples of the Abrams (A1 and A2 models) combat performance against insurgents.

Would anyone agree/disagree over the use of these three battles as the focus of an essay on the performance of the Abrams against insurgents in the post-Saddam Iraq?