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TIMELINES
Gulf War to Iraq War:
2 August 1990—19 March
2003
Iraq War: 19 March 2003—14
April 2003
War in
Afghanistan:
2001—2002
IN THE NEWS
2005
Operation Matador
2004
23 February: 2nd
Battalion, 108th Infantry head for Iraq
2003
19 March 2003: Lt.-Col. Tom Collins addresses his troops of the Royal Irish
19 March
2003: President Bush addresses the nation: Operation Iraqi Freedom
begins
2002
3 June: Masai respond
19
July: President Bush salutes the
10th Mountain Division
26 August: A general's assessment of war with Iraq
SOLDIER'S TALE
2001
17 December: New
York City soldiers in Afghanistan
2002
7 March: Mortar ping-pong
11 March: Grenades for
fallen buddies
30
March: Royal Commandos arrive
8 April: Israeli soldiers react to the US call
for a pullback
19 April: Four Canadians dead in Afghanistan
10 May: Israeli
soldier wants out
10 May:
A bombing in Russia, a massacre of children
25 May: Death
on Takur Ghar
10 June: "A" Company (187th Infantry) is coming home
HISTORIAN'S TALE
Army Historians
and September 11th
 What's
General Sherman got to do with it? Sherman is central to two very
thought-provoking books. Caleb Carr and Victor Davis Hanson draw radically
different conclusions about the man and his legacy....
"Lessons of Terror" by Caleb Carr.
Shun Sherman and win a meaningful peace.
"An Autumn of War"
by Victor Davis Hanson. Embrace Sherman and win a lasting peace.
BEFORE 11 SEPTEMBER 2001
1999 US report on
terrorism Too fantastic to be believed? Unheeded warnings
from
a Federal Research Division Report
How
Guerilla and Terrorist Groups End
from
the Federal Research Division Report excerpted
above.
USS
Cole Memorial Service
Srebrenica 1995
Massacre and Aftermath
from
The Netherlands
Institute for War Documentation.
ISRAEL 2002
10 May: Israeli
soldier wants out
RUSSIA 2002
10 May:
Bombing
at a Russian World War II victory parade: a massacre of children
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