<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" ><channel><title>Defense Tech &#187; Iraq Diary</title> <atom:link href="http://defensetech.org/category/iraq-diary/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://defensetech.org</link> <description>The Future of the Military, Law Enforcement and National Security</description> <lastBuildDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:24:46 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1</generator> <item><title>Iran’s Shadowy Power Grabs in Iraq</title><link>http://defensetech.org/2012/01/04/irans-shadowy-power-grabs-in-iraq/</link> <comments>http://defensetech.org/2012/01/04/irans-shadowy-power-grabs-in-iraq/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:15:36 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>John Reed</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Around the Globe]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Balance of Power]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Cloak and Dagger]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Iraq Diary]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://defensetech.org/?p=15872</guid> <description><![CDATA[Iran’s high-profile efforts to bully everyone in the Middle East have been getting a ton of attention this week. However, a group of Texas National Guardsmen recently revealed much more subtle, and potentially more important, ways that Iran could fill the power vacuum left by the withdrawal of American forces from Iraq. It’s not news that Iran’s [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://defensetech.org/2012/01/04/irans-shadowy-power-grabs-in-iraq/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>123</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Roc Nation Leaves Iraq</title><link>http://defensetech.org/2011/12/20/roc-nation-leaves-iraq/</link> <comments>http://defensetech.org/2011/12/20/roc-nation-leaves-iraq/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 22:26:59 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>John Reed</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Air Force]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Around the Globe]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Iraq Diary]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Planes, Copters, Blimps]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://defensetech.org/?p=15747</guid> <description><![CDATA[Your pic of the day is this official Air Force photo of an airman aboard the last U.S. military plane to leave Iraq on Dec. 18. Correct me if I’m wrong, but it looks like he’s flashing Jay Z’s Roc sign in celebration as his C-17 prepares to leave Ali Air Base in Iraq.  I [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://defensetech.org/2011/12/20/roc-nation-leaves-iraq/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>21</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Iraq Signs Deal for 18 F-16s</title><link>http://defensetech.org/2011/09/27/iraq-signs-deal-for-18-f-16s/</link> <comments>http://defensetech.org/2011/09/27/iraq-signs-deal-for-18-f-16s/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 23:10:48 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>John Reed</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Air-to-Air Combat]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Around the Globe]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fast Movers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Iraq Diary]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Money Money Money]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Planes, Copters, Blimps]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://defensetech.org/?p=14760</guid> <description><![CDATA[So Iraq finally bought those 18 F-16s that it’s been hoping to buy for years now. From Reuters: The value of the deal was not immediately known, but a senior U.S. military official said recently the offer on the table for the Iraqi government was valued at “roughly $3 billion.” Iraqi and U.S. military officials have said [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://defensetech.org/2011/09/27/iraq-signs-deal-for-18-f-16s/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>53</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Bomb Sniffing Snake Oil Exposed</title><link>http://defensetech.org/2010/11/03/bomb-sniffing-snake-oil-exposed/</link> <comments>http://defensetech.org/2010/11/03/bomb-sniffing-snake-oil-exposed/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2010 15:50:11 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>christian</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Iraq Diary]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://defensetech.org/?p=9566</guid> <description><![CDATA[There’s nothing like a Hobbesian conflict zone to smoke out the bottom feeders of the defense industry. And when the car bomb and suicide vest are top killers in your country, who wouldn’t grasp at straws to find an easy solution. The Washington Post ran a story today that should remind DT readers what’s wrong with defense industry scam [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://defensetech.org/2010/11/03/bomb-sniffing-snake-oil-exposed/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>11</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Book Review: They Fought For Each Other</title><link>http://defensetech.org/2010/09/10/book-review-they-fought-for-each-other/</link> <comments>http://defensetech.org/2010/09/10/book-review-they-fought-for-each-other/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 20:49:14 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Iraq Diary]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://defensetech.org/?p=8923</guid> <description><![CDATA[Decisions on matters of foreign policy have consequences. For those who too often forget that those consequences are often human costs, an excellent and emotionally wrenching book by Military Times reporter Kelly Kennedy, They Fought For Each Other: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Hardest Hit Unit in Iraq, provides a much needed reminder. Unlike [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://defensetech.org/2010/09/10/book-review-they-fought-for-each-other/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>27</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Iranian Backed Group Plots Rocket Attacks on Troops in Iraq: Odierno</title><link>http://defensetech.org/2010/07/21/iranian-backed-group-plots-rocket-attacks-on-troops-in-iraq-odierno/</link> <comments>http://defensetech.org/2010/07/21/iranian-backed-group-plots-rocket-attacks-on-troops-in-iraq-odierno/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 16:04:17 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Assymetric Warriors]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Iraq Diary]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://defensetech.org/?p=8320</guid> <description><![CDATA[Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps continues to train and arm Shia extremist groups in Iraq attempting to attack U.S. bases with a crudely built, but potentially very deadly, improvised rocket-assisted mortar, or what the military calls IRAM, Iraq commander Gen. Ray Odierno told Defense Tech this morning. IRAM is basically a flying IED, consisting of a [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://defensetech.org/2010/07/21/iranian-backed-group-plots-rocket-attacks-on-troops-in-iraq-odierno/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>20</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>U.S.-Iraqi Forces Kill Top Al-Qaeda in Iraq Leader</title><link>http://defensetech.org/2010/04/19/u-s-iraqi-forces-kill-top-al-qaeda-in-iraq-leaders/</link> <comments>http://defensetech.org/2010/04/19/u-s-iraqi-forces-kill-top-al-qaeda-in-iraq-leaders/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:52:26 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Iraq Diary]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://defensetech.org/?p=6629</guid> <description><![CDATA[U.S. military officials confirm that Al Qaeda in Iraq’s leader, Abu Ayyub al-Masri, was killed in an attack on the house where he had holed up in the Iraqi city Thar-Thar, 50 miles west of Baghdad. Also killed in the joint Iraqi-U.S. raid was Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, leader of the al-Qaeda affiliated group the Islamic [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://defensetech.org/2010/04/19/u-s-iraqi-forces-kill-top-al-qaeda-in-iraq-leaders/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>13</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Montgomery Meigs: Abizaid and Casey Flipped Iraq’s Sunni Tribes</title><link>http://defensetech.org/2010/04/13/montgomery-meigs-abizaid-and-casey-flipped-iraqs-sunni-tribes/</link> <comments>http://defensetech.org/2010/04/13/montgomery-meigs-abizaid-and-casey-flipped-iraqs-sunni-tribes/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 17:13:14 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Iraq Diary]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://defensetech.org/?p=6560</guid> <description><![CDATA[At a New America sponsored discussion yesterday on IEDs in Afghanistan, retired general Montgomery Meigs, chief of the Pentagon’s counter IED task force during the ugliest years in Iraq, gave credit for the big turnaround there in 2007 to two unsung generals: John Abizaid and George Casey. He said one of the big reasons IED [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://defensetech.org/2010/04/13/montgomery-meigs-abizaid-and-casey-flipped-iraqs-sunni-tribes/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>16</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>CENTCOM Releases Report on Apache Gun Camera Video From Iraq</title><link>http://defensetech.org/2010/04/06/centcom-releases-report-on-apache-gun-camera-video/</link> <comments>http://defensetech.org/2010/04/06/centcom-releases-report-on-apache-gun-camera-video/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 14:42:48 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Iraq Diary]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://defensetech.org/?p=6432</guid> <description><![CDATA[For those of you who might have missed it, there is a lot of discussion about this video published on Wikileaks, apparently acquired from a “whistleblower.” The video is gun camera footage from Apache attack helicopters involved in the killing of two Reuters news employees, photographer Namir Noor-Eldeen and driver Saeed Chmag, in summer 2007. [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://defensetech.org/2010/04/06/centcom-releases-report-on-apache-gun-camera-video/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>139</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Iraq: Que Sera Sera</title><link>http://defensetech.org/2009/06/30/iraq-que-sera-sera/</link> <comments>http://defensetech.org/2009/06/30/iraq-que-sera-sera/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:17:14 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Ward</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Iraq Diary]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://deftech.usmilblog.com/?p=4556</guid> <description><![CDATA[The withdrawal of American troops from Iraqi cities today marks a turning point for the war in Iraq, and leaves me with mixed feelings about the current situation and the war overall. I see it as a success that the security situation has improved so much that US forces basically aren’t needed to protect the [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://defensetech.org/2009/06/30/iraq-que-sera-sera/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>20</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
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