LEADING THE CHARGE — A Tomahawk missile leaves the deck of USS Bunker Hill this morning in route to Iraq. Bunker Hill is currently forward deployed to the Persian Gulf in support of ongoing operations against Iraq. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer’s Mate 2nd Class (AW) Richard Moore, Fleet Combat Camera Group Pacific.

The Red Sea (Mar. 19, 2003) -- The Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Donald Cook (DDG 75) launches three of its Tomahawk Land Attack Missiles (TLAM) at military targets in Iraq. Donald Cook is part of the USS Harry S. Truman carrier battle group operating in the Red Sea in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. U.S. Navy photo by Chief Journalist Alan J. Baribeau..

Documents

• Command releases JCOA-produced Iraqi perspectives report, March 24, 2006

• C4I Interoperability: New Challenges in 21st Century Warfare Hearing, HASC Terrorism, Unconventional Threats and Capabilities Subcommittee , October 21, 2003

• House Armed Services Commitee: Operation Iraqi Freedom: Outside Perspectives Hearing, October 21, 2003

• House Armed Services Committee, Admiral Edmund P. Giambastiani, Jr - Operation Iraqi Freedom Lessons Learned, October 02, 2003

• House Armed Services Committee met to receive testimony on United States policy and operations in Iraq, September 25, 2003

• The Battle of Taji and Battle Command on the Move by Lieutenant Colonel Edward J. Erickson, U.S. Army, Retired with Major General Raymond T. Odierno, U.S. Army. During the Battle of Taji on 16 April 2003, battle command in the 4th Infantry Division was exercised in a technically new style nicknamed Battle Command on the Move that, in effect, frees the commander to go to the fight wherever it might be on the battlefield. No longer is he tied to a headquarters at a fixed location.

• OIF veterans discuss lessons by Staff Sgt. Jason L. Haag Air Warfare Center Public Affairs, July 2003

• House Armed Services Committee: Full Committee will met to receive testimony on Operation Iraqi Freedom, July 10, 2003

• Senate Committee on Armed Services: To receive testimony on “lessons learned” during Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan and Operation Iraqi Freedom, and to receive testimony on ongoing operations in the United States Central Command region, July 9, 2003

• Nationalism, Sectarianism, and the Future of the U.S. Presence in Post-Saddam Iraq by W.Andrew Terrill, July 2003. The author addresses the critical questions involved in understanding the background of Iraqi national identity and the ways in which it may evolve in the future to either the favor or detriment of the United States. He pays particular attention to the issue of Iraqi sectarianism and the emerging role of the Shi’ite Muslims, noting the power of an emerging but fractionalized clergy. This report includes policy recommendations for U.S. military and civilian decisionmakers that helps to illuminate the complex subjects of Iraqi nationalism and sectarianism and their relevance to the U.S. presence in Iraq.

• The Ministry of Defence published on 7 July an initial report - Operations in Iraq: First Reflections - setting out the role of the UK Armed Forces during the main period of hostilities in Op Telic and drawing early conclusions . Detailed analysis continues and is expected to lead to a full report to be published before the end of 2003.

• Defence Secretary's speech to the Royal United Services Institute, 26/06/2003

• Operation IRAQI FREEDOM – By The Numbers Assessment and Analysis Division, April 30, 2003

• Operation Iraqi Freedom Quick Facts

• MOUT in Iraq: Population Dependent? by Mr. Timothy L. Thomas, Foreign Military Studies Office, Fort Leavenworth, KS, 2003

• PsyOps in Iraq: Leaflets dropped over Iraq (last update April 16, 2003)

• Weapons Systems introduced since Desert Storm (2001) that are available now (2003), 'As we again prepare to go to war in Iraq many new systems have been introduced that have impacted our rapid response time, our lethality, and our precision. What follows are several of the significant new weapons systems that have been deployed, including a description of their capabilities. The listing is illustrative rather than complete and, to the most part, does not include system upgrades and prototypes.', National Defense University

• UK Military Operation 'Telic' - the military campaign objectives, January 2003
  
  
• Resolution 1441 (2002), Adopted by the Security Council at its 4644th meeting, on 8 November 2002

• CIA 2002 Iraq Factbook

• Iraq Timeline 1900 -2000

• Shock and Awe: Achieving Rapid Dominance written by Harlan K. Ullman and James P. Wade with: L.A. "Bud" Edney, Fred M. Franks, Charles A. Horner, Jonathan T. Howe, and Keith Brendley, NDU Press Book, December 1996
  
  

General Maps

• Map of the Middle East

• Map of Iraq and of Iraq and Surrounding Countries

• NIMA Map of Iraq 2003 - large

• NIMA Map of Baghdad (2003) - large

• Map of Iraqi Oil Infrastructure

• UK MoD Operation Telic Reference Maps

Detailed Maps

• Al Basrah Region (tactical pilotage chart) original scale 1:500,000 Portion of Defense Mapping Agency TPC H-6B 1991 (833K) Not for navigational use
• Al Basrah Region - Oil and Gas Fields original scale 1:670,000 From Iraq-Iran: Central and Southern Border Areas CIA 1980 (400K)
• Al Mawsil [Mosul]-Arbil Region, Northern Iraq (tactical pilotage chart) original scale 1:500,000 Portion of Defense Mapping Agency TPC G-4B 1989 (927K) Not for navigational use
• Baghdad Region original scale 1:670,000 From Iraq-Iran: Central and Southern Border Areas CIA 1980 (1136K)
• Baghdad Region (tactical pilotage chart) original scale 1:500,000 Portion of Defense Mapping Agency TPC G-4C 1991 (657K) Not for navigational use
• East-Central Iraq From Iraq a Map Folio CIA 1992 (181K)
• Husaybah [Qusaybah] and Iraq/Syria Border (tactical pilotage chart) original scale 1:500,000 Portion of Defense Mapping Agency TPC G-4C 1991 (638K) Not for navigational use
• Iraq/Jordan Border (operational navigation chart) original scale 1:1,000,000 Portion of Defense Mapping Agency ONC G-4 1990 (833K) Not for navigational use
• Kirkuk-Arbil Region (tactical pilotage chart) original scale 1:500,000 Portion of Defense Mapping Agency TPC G-4C 1991 (676K) Not for navigational use
• Northern Iraq (operational navigation chart) original scale 1:1,000,000 Portion of Defense Mapping Agency ONC G-4 1990 (1MB) Not for navigational use
• Sulaymaniyah Region (tactical pilotage chart) original scale 1:500,000 Portion of Defense Mapping Agency TPC G-4C 1991 (721K) Not for navigational use
• Turkey (wall map) 2002 Includes Northern and Central Iraq, Shows Air Bases. Inset map of Tigris and Euphrates Drainage Basin
• Western Kuwait and Neighboring Iraq (tactical pilotage chart) original scale 1:500,000 Portion of Defense Mapping Agency TPC H-6A 1991 (638K) Not for navigational use