Congressional Budget Office, The Long-Term Implications of Current Defense Plans: Summary Update for Fiscal Year 2005In its cost-risk projections, CBO assumes that activities in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere could cost as much as $56 billion in 2005. That figure rests on the assumption that force...
Iraq war
This is interesting:NATO commanders in Afghanistan have decided to end local police training, fearing that cops in remote areas -– most of whom once fought for tribal warlords –- might.
Baghdad fell five years ago today. If I understand the conservative blogs correctly, people like me were supposed to have been humiliated and distressed by the news; at the time,.
Got in a bit late, just in time to see Crocker discussing how great it was for the US economy that Iraq is buying a couple US aircraft... too bad about that $12 billion/month we're spending for that boon......It's also nice to hear that the...
This looks to me like a clean victory for Sadr. In the words of the immortal Jim Malone, if you open the door on these people, you have to be.
Defense News:The U.S. plans to urge Britain to launch a "surge" in Basra to combat increasing violence in the southern Iraqi region, the Sunday Mirror newspaper reported.Britain, which has around.
I mentioned in this comment thread that Dress Blues wasn't one of my favorite songs from Jason Isbell's Sirens of the Ditch. I should probably add that one of the reasons for this is the overall strength of the album. In any case, an LGM...
Did Ahmed Chalabi lie in order to press the United States to go into Iraq? This is a silly question; of course he lied, and of course he stole, and.
This paragraph is bad enough to be worth spending some time on:I did not believe the American-led coalition could prudently leave Iraq the day Baghdad fell. Coalition troops were essential.
This is nothing new, but it's worth revisiting now and again. For the monthly cost of the war in Iraq, conservatively estimated for our purposes at $8 billion, the Pentagon could buy:10 F-22A Raptors ($150 million each)23 F-35 Lightning IIs ($100 million each)4 Littoral Combat...
But that doesn't mean the issue of the war should slip to the backburner of voters' consciences and therefore become less important to the presidential campaigns, as has apparently happened.I.
I've been waiting a bit before posting any thinking on the Surge and the drop in violence in Iraq, but I think it's time now for a few observations.First off,.