I served as commander of Baker Company, 2-12 Infantry, which operated in a predominantly Sunni area of Baghdad, from January-December of 2007. Over the course of our deployment, I witnessed an increase in U.S. combat power (battalions and squadrons on the ground) and a shift in the mentality of the Iraqi populace. Somewhere in the May-^June time period, our increasingly adept operations combined with national-level reconciliation momentum to drastically increase the security of our area.

My company "won" the counterinsurgency in our area. We saw a 100 percent decrease in IED and small-arms attacks. For the first quarter of our deployment, we were attacked multiple times daily; in the last ...

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