The Iraq War Around the 2007 Airstrike

Where to start in this section

A reading order that makes sense

If you are new to the subject, these in this order will give you the whole of it. The main pages come first because everything else refers back to them.

1. Baghdad in 2007 and the Surge The airstrike happened in the worst year of the war, in the middle of a strategy that deliberately put American infantr… 4 min
2. Iraq Body Count and How the Iraqi Dead Were Counted Estimates of the civilian toll in Iraq range from around 200,000 to over a million. The range is not dishonesty. It is … 4 min
3. Timeline of Key Events in the Iraq War The war in outline, from the 2003 invasion to the 2011 withdrawal, with the points that matter for understanding one mo… 4 min
4. The Impact of the Iraq War on Civilians: Statistics and Stories Displacement, infrastructure, medicine, schooling and grief. The casualty figures are the part of civilian impact that … 4 min
5. How the Iraq War Changed Modern Warfare: Lessons Learned Not the tactics people expect. The lasting changes were about recording, watching and explaining, and this airstrike si… 4 min