Colonel Ralph Baker currently serves as division chief (J5) for the Middle East on the Pentagon Joint Staff. During the ground war phase of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM, he was in charge of the V Corps tactical command post and subsequently took...
Colonel John D. "J.D." Johnson deployed to Iraq as the commander of 2nd Brigade, 1st Armored Division (AD). Prior to Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF), the 2d Brigade, 1st AD was stationed in Baumholder, Germany. Johnson had been to Kuwait before OIF...
Policing can be an effective counterinsurgency tool. Police are able to determine the individual needs of each community and address each constituency's concern which in turn enhances the government's legitimacy. The Iraqi Police face the challenge...
In this interview, MAJ Thomas Bessler, US Army, Military Intelligence; discusses his deployment to Iraq as a detachment S2 for 1-6 Infantry in 2003 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). MAJ Bessler talks about his missions of providing...
In this first of two interviews, Major Gerd Schroeder discusses commanding Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 6th Infantry, and later the Headquarters and Headquarters Company (HHC), in Baghdad and Iskandariyah from April 2003 though July 2004 in...