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"Why Victory Became Defeat in Iraq"

Op-Ed, Nieman Watchdog

March 30, 2007

Author: Ivan Arreguin-Toft, Former Research Fellow, International Security Program, 2002-2009

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As long as there was an army to fight, the U.S. was unstoppable, writes a Harvard scholar who studies asymmetric conflicts. But once we lost the Iraqi people, all the power in the world wasn’t enough to achieve victory. (Second of two parts.)

 

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Arreguin-Toft, Ivan. "Why Victory Became Defeat in Iraq." Nieman Watchdog, March 30, 2007.

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