Brave Rifles Articles Reading List for Operation Iraqi Freedom

Counterinsurgency History and Theory

Kulikov, Sergey A.  2003.  Insurgent Groups in Chechnya. Military Review. Nov/Dec2003, Vol. 83 Issue 6, p21, 10p.  

Cassidy, Robert M.  2004.  Back to the Street Without Joy: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Vietnam and other Small Wars.  Parameters. Summer2004, Vol. 34 Issue 2, p73, 11p.

Tomes, Robert R.  2004. Relearning Counterinsurgency Warfare. Parameters. Spring2004, Vol. 34 Issue 1, p16, 13p.

Iraqi Culture and History 

Milton-Edwards, Beverley. 2003. Iraq’s Past, Present & Future.  History & Policy.  Internet. Available from: http://www.historyandpolicy.org/archive/policy-paper-13.html; accessed 30 December 2004. 

Kandell, Jonathan. 2003.  Iraq’s Unruly Century. Smithsonian. May2003, Vol. 34 Issue 2, p44, 8p.

Iraq Ethnicities and Sects 

Cockburn, Andrew. 2003. Iraq’s Oppressed Majority. Smithsonian. Dec2003, Vol. 34 Issue 9, p98, 8p. 

Nakash, Yitzhak. 2003. The Shi’ites and the Future of Iraq. Foreign Affairs. Jul/Aug2003, Vol. 82 Issue 4, p17, 10p.

Insurgency, Counterinsurgency, and Ethnic/Sectarian Violence in Iraq  

Nasr, Vali. 2004. Regional Implications of Shi’a Revival in Iraq. Washington  Quarterly. Summer2004, Vol. 27 Issue 3, p7, 18p. 

Metz, Stephen. 2003. Insurgency & Counterinsurgency in Iraq. Washington Quarterly. Winter2004, Vol. 27 Issue 1, p25, 12p.

Urban Combat   

Day, Clifford E. 1997. Critical Analysis on: the Defeat of Task Force Ranger. (Research Paper, Air Command and Staff College.) Internet.  Available from: http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/report/1997/97-0364.pdf; accessed 30 December 2004. 

Gray, Malcolm. 1995. City in Ruins. Maclean's, 10 April 1995, Vol. 108 Issue 15, p20, 2p. 

Nelan, Bruce W. Sally B. Donnelly. 1995. Looking For the Next Step. Time January 23 1995, Vol. 143 Issue 3. p46, 3p. 

Press, Daryl G.1999. Urban Warfare: Options, Problems, and the Future. (MIT Security Studies Program Conference Summary. (January). Internet. Available from: http://web.mit.edu/ssp/Publications/confseries/urbanwarfare/urbanwarfare.html; accessed 30 December 2004.

Psychological / Ethical Dimensions of Combat     

Peters, Ralph. 1996. A Revolution in Military Ethics. Parameters.. Summer 1996, Vol. XXVI, No. 2, 7p. 

University of  San Diego, Values Institute.  Ethics of  War, Peace & Terrorism. Internet. Available from: http://ethics.sandiego.edu/Applied/Military/index.asp; accessed 30 December 2004.