Defense and the National Interest

By Elaine M. Grossman, Global Security Newswire
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In his testimony before House and Senate panels this week, Army Gen. David Petraeus urged a deliberative approach to shifting security responsibilities to the nascent Iraqi army, but it is not clear he will have the last word on timing.
Some top military and civilian officials [...]

Elaine M. Grossman
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The United States holds nearly 20,000 suspected insurgents in detention at Camp Bucca in southern Iraq and, on long days in the desert sun, the inmates can get restless. On May 14, restlessness turned into a riot.
Detainees corralled inside huge compounds — where the only refuge from the sun [...]