• Military

• WMD Menu                           

• Introduction
• Systems
• Facilities
• Agencies
• Operations
• Countries
• Hot Documents
• News
• Reports
• Policy
• Budget
• Congress
• Links

• Intelligence
• Homeland Security
• Space

Operations
Deployments
US Policy
United Nations
Reconstruction Issues
Foreign Reactions
News Reports

Current Operations

• OIF/OEF Casualty Update 05 Mar 2010 [PDF]
• Iraqis Arrest Six in Security Operations AFPS 05 Mar 2010 -- Iraqi forces, with U.S. advisors, arrested six people yesterday suspected of planning terrorist attacks leading up to the country’s scheduled national elections, military officials said.
• Pre-election Calm Validates ‘Advise, Assist’ Mission AFPS 05 Mar 2010 -- Two days before Iraq’s national parliamentary elections, the biggest impression for Army Col. Peter Newell is what his 4th Brigade, 1st Armored Division, soldiers aren’t doing.
• Scout training aids Iraqis in becoming air mobile qualified Army News 05 Mar 2010 -- With the advent of the helicopter, airborne military operations became centered on the concept of strategic mobility, or getting the maximum number of Soldiers into the area of operations in the shortest amount of time.
• Vanguard Focus preps 4th IBCT for Iraq Army News 05 Mar 2010 -- The 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division kicked off its first collective training exercise at Fort Stewart, Feb. 22. The operation dubbed Vanguard Focus is preparing nearly 3,500 Soldiers for an upcoming deployment to Iraq.

Deployments

US Policy

United Nations

• UN officials herald upcoming election as milestone for Iraq UN News Centre 05 Mar 2010 -- As millions of Iraqis prepare to head to the polls on Sunday, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and his top envoy in the country stressed the importance of the parliamentary election and voiced their hope for a strong and peaceful turnout.

Reconstruction Issues

• Public-Sector Employees Go To The Polls Early In Iraq RFE/RL 05 Mar 2010 -- Hundreds of thousands of Iraqi voters cast their ballots early in a number of provinces on the day for special voting on March 4, which included procedures for employees of the Iraqi security forces, hospital staff and patients, and prison inmates.
• Iraqi Candidates Make Appeals Across Religious Lines VOA 05 Mar 2010 -- The prayers from a Sunni mosque carry through the streets of this Baghdad neighborhood ... competing with or, perhaps, complementing the prayers from a Shi'ite mosque nearby.
• Iraqi Candidates Wrap Up Campaigning VOA 05 Mar 2010 -- Iraqi candidates wrapped up their campaigns Friday as voters living overseas began casting ballots in critical parliamentary elections.

Foreign Reactions

• Brown defends controversial decision to invade Iraq IRNA 05 Mar 2010 -- Prime Minister Gordon Brown Friday defended the controversial decision to invade Iraq as peace protester accused him of having “as much blood on his hands” as his predecessor Tony Blair by being the “paymaster general” of the war.

News Reports