Is Iraq in a civil war?

Middle East Quarterly

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Patten, David A ^a  

^a 3rd Infantry Division

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EID: 34548563727     PISSN: 10739467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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References (23)

1. The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Jan. 27, 2006.
2. ABC News, Mar. 5, 2006.
3. Measuring Stability and Security in Iraq, U.S. Department of Defense, Mar. 2007;
4. The Washington Post, Mar. 15, 2007.
5. National Strategy for Victory in Iraq, National Security Council, Washington, D.C, Nov. 2005;
6. George W. Bush, second inaugural address, Washington, D.C., Jan. 20, 2005.
7. Maxine Waters, "The Deteriorating Situation in Iraq," statement, U.S. House of Representatives, Feb. 16, 2006.
8. Daniel L. Byman and Kenneth M. Pollack, "What Next?" The Washington Post, Aug. 20, 2006.
9. "Terms and Definitions," Military Operations in Low Intensity Conflict, U.S. Army Field Manual 100-20, Dec. 5, 1990.
10. The Washington Post, Mar. 1, 2006:
11. CNN.com, Mar. 1, 2006.
12. Errol A. Henderson and J. David Singer, "Civil War in the Post-Colonial World, 1946-92," The Journal of Peace Research, May 2000, pp. 275-99.
13. The Telegraph (London), Mar. 20, 2006;
14. CNN.com, Mar. 20, 2006.
15. Al-Jazeera.net (Doha), Sept. 17, 2005.
16. Byman and Pollack, "What Next?"
17. Supplementary Appeal Iraq Situation Response (New York: The United Nations Human Rights Council, Jan. 2007), p. 2.
18. Mao Tse Tung, On Guerrilla Warfare, trans. Samuel B. Griffith II (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1961), p. 43.
19. Fourteen percent of Sunnis in Iraq supported an Islamic state in Iraq: "Iraq - Where Things Stand," ABC News poll, Dec. 12, 2005;
20. percent of Iraqis, including 77 percent of Iraqi Sunnis expressed disapproval for Al-Qaeda: "The Iraqi Public on the U.S. Presence and the Future of Iraq," WorldPublicOpinon.org poll, Program on International Policy Attitudes, College Park, Md., Sept. 27, 2006.
21. "Report of the Secretary-General pursuant to paragraph 30 of resolution 1546 (2004)," The United Nations Security Council, Sept. 1, 2006, p. 12;
22. The New York Times, July 18, 2006.
23. Michael Eisenstadt and Jeffrey White, "Assessing Iraq's Sunni Arab Insurgency," Policy Focus #50, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Washington, D.C., Dec. 2005, p. 14.