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Article: Civil-military affairs in Hashemite Iraq: an examination of past military conduct in Iraqi political life.
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- Infantry Magazine
- Article date:
- March 1, 2006
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As U.S. forces take stock of the ct that 70 percent of Iraqis voted in the December 15 elections, it is vital to examine the history of how and when the Iraqi army played so prominent a role in the political life of the country. By exploring the history of Iraq's civil-military affairs, we can begin to diagnose telltale signs of what worked and what did not work in Iraq's difficult birth as a nation-state and maintaining Iraq's borders despite fierce sectarianism along religious and ethnic lines. In his essay "The Second Learning Revolution," which appeared in the book Rethinking the Principles of War, Major General Robert Scales advocated that military decision-making ...
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