Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)
[PDF file]: […] (2010), purports to be a memoir of the MRF period. As to its veracity, I have no idea. 13 For details see the case of Fallujah in Iraq discussed at . 14 15 Wilson’s letter with the links therein can be read at . 6 Catholics. The response of the Army and police was […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
[PDF file]: […] us, ‘in the classrooms of the Naval Postgraduate School where I teach company and field grade US and international officers’. Here he encountered officers newly returned from Iraq and Afghanistan who were ‘not only unsettled by their experiences in these countries, but also persuaded that the hearts and minds counterinsurgency doctrines they were despatched […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
[PDF file]: […] credit to General Stanley McChrystal. ‘Pattern Analysis’ was the way forward and McChrystal was ‘the principal driver of this revolutionary intelligence system’. To fight the insurgency in Iraq, they had to put together ‘a million-piece puzzle’ with ‘no box top to look at to help us’. Intelligence and the effective use of it were […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
[PDF file]: […] involved at the highest level in running America’s Empire, from the Battles of Fallujah to commanding US Central Command (CENTCOM) that covered some twenty countries including both Iraq and Afghanistan. While his credentials as a servant of US Imperialism are impeccable, to give him his due, when he was first contacted by Vice President […]
Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)
[PDF file]: […] secret force in the US national security apparatus’. It only went public after the killing of Osama Bin Laden. Scahill explores JSOC’s record during the occupation of Iraq. Here the US Army found itself fighting a full-blown insurgency which, for a while, actually looked capable of making the American position untenable. The scale of […]
Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)
[PDF file]: […] Daily Mail from an Iranian defector,25 matches precisely what I was shown in a secret intelligence report in the FCO just around the time of the first Iraq war – that a Syrian terrorist group was responsible acting on behalf of Iran. It was decided that this would be kept under wraps because the […]