Menachem Begin and Kurdish Independence

At midnight on October 15 the Iraqi Army, with Iranian backed militias leading the way, launched an assault on Iraqi Kurdistan to conquer the city of Kirkuk and control the vital oil infrastructure in the surrounding countryside.

Why Arab States Can’t Win Wars

Modern war requires not only modern weapons, but modern organization and tactics as well. Soldiers and commanders must be able to not only fight in cohesive units using combined arms, but plan and supply their operations as well.

However, in the Arab world, militaries have yet to understand this reality. In conflicts in Syria, Yemen and Iraq even the best equipped Arab militaries have failed to achieve their goals. Even with hundreds of modern battle tanks and hundreds of thousands of troops, wars between the Arab states are almost without exception, bloody, long, and inconclusive.

How Iraq Could Implode

Iraq is falling apart at the seams. As the fighting intensifies in Fallujah, chaos is simmering in Baghdad that threatens the Iraqi state.

The Battle For Fallujah Has Begun

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi  has announced that the operation to retake Fallujah has begun.Named “Operation Breaking Terror” the operation is aimed

Baghdad’s Green Zone Erupts

Iraqi security forces cracked down on supporters of Shia Cleric Moqtada Al-Sadr who stormed Baghdad’s Green Zone today. The protesters made into the Iraqi parliament building and Prime Minister Abadi’s office. The Sadrists have demanding a cabinet reshuffle and reforms to combat corruption.

Islamic State fighters fleeing the Peshmerga

Today Vice News released a video taken from the helmet camera of an Islamic State fighter attempting to a attack a Peshmerga position with  an armored truck. The assault reported took place 30 miles north of Mosul; ISIS’s de-facto capital in Iraq.

American B-52 Strategic Bombers Just Flew Their First Mission Against ISIS

U.S Central Command has reported that the B-52 Stratofortress has just flown it’s first successful mission against ISIS in Iraq. The strike targeted a weapon storage and production facility in Qayyarah, Iraq using precision weapons.