Death, Dominance, and State-Building, The US in Iraq and the Future of American Military Intervention is a very detailed argument by MIT Professor Roger Petersen that America’s counterinsurgency and nation building strategies failed in Iraq. His point is that the U.S. was able to temporarily bring down violence during the Surge but failed to maintain the peace nor build a functioning Iraqi state.
1940 PM Said proposed to High Defense Council declaring war on Germany Send 2 Iraqi divisions to
Libya or Balkans Was rejected
Iraq’s oil exports have been going down for the last three months. Despite that prices continue to fluctuate and the country earned more in January than December.
1915 Lord Hardinge wrote India Office Said taking Baghdad was likely ultimate objective of
British occupation of Mesopotamia
(Musings On Iraq review When God Made Hell, The British Invasion of Mesopotamia and the Creation of Iraq, 1914-1921)
Transparency International (TI) just released its Corruption Perceptions Index for 2025 and Iraq improved its score and standing. That was done for superficial reasons.
1917 British renewed attack upon Dahra bend outside Kut
1258 Abbasid Caliph Mustasim surrendered Baghdad to Mongols Residents taken to camps where they
were executed Christians and Jews spared Mongol leader Hulagu said he killed 200,000 City eventually burned
Death, Dominance, and State-Building, The US in Iraq and the Future of American Military Intervention is a very detailed ...
