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IRAQ

Chess With the Sheiks

A key reason for the declining violence in Iraq is that U.S. troops have come to understand—and begun to form alliances with—Iraq’s many tribes and their leaders, the sheiks.

by Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
Saturday, April 12, 2008


Victory in a conventional war goes to the big battalions. Defeating an insurgency is a more intimate affair; it requires small units that can win over, or kill, one enemy fighter at a time. Danjel Bout took command of his infantry ...


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