During his May 2003 to July 2004 deployment in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM, Major George H. Sarabia served as a regimental S4, then XO of 2nd Squadron, 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment. Based in the heavily Shi'ite Baghdad slum of Sadr City,...
In command of the 7th Transportation Battalion for 11 months in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) II beginning in January 2004, Lieutenant Colonel George Akin was an Active Component commander working under a Reserve Component corps support...
In Iraq from January 2005 to January 2006, Colonel Joseph DiSalvo commanded the 3rd Infantry Division's 2nd Brigade Combat Team. Responsible principally for the Rasafah district of Baghdad - located on the east side of the Tigris River - in an area...
During his 2004-2005 Operation Iraqi Freedom deployment, Colonel Robert Abrams commanded the 1st Cavalry Division's 1st Brigade Combat Team, based primarily in Sadr City. In this interview, he starts off by discussing the predeployment training he...
When Lieutenant Colonel David Seigel was first alerted for deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, he was serving as the executive officer (XO) of 1st Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment with the 1st Cavalry Division at Fort Hood, Texas. He...
This study examines the effects of democratizing Iraq in relation to the stability of the state. The international relations theory of the democratic peace states that democracies do not fight one another. Elements of the theory have been applied...
The operations officer and, later, executive officer of 3rd Squadron, 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment, Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Isom deployed to Camp Victory, Kuwait, in late April 2003 and by mid May was in Iraq, having conducted a relief in place...
Staff Sergeant Jared Sargent was assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1-12 CAV for the duration of his deployment to Baghdad, Iraq, from April 2004 through March 2005. They arrived just in time for a very heavy fight with the Mahdi...
Lograr la paz: el requisito de las operaciones de espectro total. General de División Peter W. Chiarelli, Ejército de los EE.UU., y Mayor Patrick R. Michaelis, Ejército de los EE.UU.; Aunque adiestrados en la aplicación controlada del poder de...
The operations officer for 2nd Brigade, 1st Armored Division in Iraq from April through July 2003 and then, from July though August 2004 the division deputy G3, Lieutenant Colonel Chuck Hensley begins this interview by discussing his visibility on...
Lieutenant Colonel (P) L. Barrett Holmes served as the commander of the 20th Engineer Battalion in support of the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division in Iraq from March 2004 until March 2005. Predeployment training consisted of...
The lightning campaign that toppled the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq in the spring of 2003 seemed to herald the arrival of a new way of war, as Germany's blitzkrieg had done at the beginning of World War II. But the initial victory soon devolved...
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...
During his February 2004 to February 2005 deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major Chris Budihas spent the first four months as commander of Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 14th Infantry Regiment out of the 25th Infantry Division; and...
In this wide-ranging interview focusing on his January 2005 through January 2006 deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Colonel (P) Edward Cardon discusses his service as the commander of 4th Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division and his area...
From January 2005 through January 2006, Command Sergeant Major Gabriel Berhane served as the CSM for Colonel Joseph DiSalvo's 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division whose roughly 4.5 million inhabitant-strong area of operations consisted of...
With 5th Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division in Iraq from March 2004 to March 2005, Major David Chiarenza initially served as a company commander and then moved to become a brigade battle captain and, as needed, brigade planner and current operations...
From May to November 2004, Major Kenneth "Lex" Luther served as an augmentee fire support officer for Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force-Arabian Peninsula (CJSOTF-AP), primarily working with 5th Special Forces Group. "I performed a number...
Colonel John "Mike" Murray served as commander of the 3rd Brigade Combat Team of the 1st Cavalry Division in Iraq from March 2004 to March 2005. His area of responsibility began as the Green Zone (later called the International Zone) and included...
This second of two interviews with Lieutenant Colonel Bentley Nettles deals with his July 2004 through January 2005 deployment as the information operations (IO) field support team chief for III Corps in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. He...