LTC John J. McBrearty arrived in Iraq in April 2004, right when the Mahdi Army and other Shi’a and Sunni insurgents rose to fight the American occupation. Read his day-by-day account....
“I am dictating this letter to a Navy nurse who has been kind enough to listen to my story and write it down for you. . . . We had only been on the ground for less than an hour when our point man began walking down a trail made by the NVA...”
US armed forces have won every battle, prevailed in every campaign, and lost every war it has fought since 1955. Reversing the trend means re-learning history, says a military strategist at West Point’s Modern War Institute...
