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Air Campaigns don’t Win Wars on their Own: Why Israel will largely Fail in Iran
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Air Campaigns don’t Win Wars on their Own: Why Israel will largely Fail in Iran

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Israel’s militarily useless, entirely unprovoked and wholly illegal air war on Iran differs significantly from its previous wars in the […]

America’s Vacillating Mideast Policy: Is anyone in Charge?

America’s Vacillating Mideast Policy: Is anyone in Charge?

06/18/2025 By Ramzy Baroud

Israel-Iran War: History shows you cannot assassinate your way to Peace

Israel-Iran War: History shows you cannot assassinate your way to Peace

06/18/2025 By The Conversation

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Two Us Troops Wounded Guerrillas

Two Us Troops Wounded Guerrillas

Two US Troops Wounded Guerrillas launched two separate attacks on passing US military vehicles near Khalidiya on Friday, wounding two Americans. The attacks led to […]

Juan Cole

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Powerful Explosion In Baghdad Nyt

Powerful Explosion In Baghdad Nyt

Powerful Explosion in Baghdad The NYT reports, “The violence continued in Iraq as a bomb exploded by a highway here in the capital on Friday […]

Juan Cole

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Bremer Decries Iranian Actions In Iraq

Bremer Decries Iranian Actions In Iraq

Bremer Decries Iranian Actions in Iraq US civil administrator Paul Bremer gave an interview with the Daily Telegraph in which he decried what he called […]

Juan Cole

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Iraq Must Be Kept Together As Single

Iraq Must Be Kept Together As Single

Iraq must be Kept together as a Single State The splitting up of Iraq into three countries would be unacceptable to all the neighbors, including […]

Juan Cole

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Diyala Bridge Cost Overruns More Reader

Diyala Bridge Cost Overruns More Reader

Diyala Bridge Cost Overruns More reader reactions to the Riverbend posting about US over-spending on construction projects in Iraq: From Nabil al-Tikriti: “Karen Magoon’s websearch […]

Juan Cole

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Three Us Soldiers Dead Perhaps Dozen

Three Us Soldiers Dead Perhaps Dozen

Three US Soldiers Dead, perhaps a dozen Wounded Guerrillas throughout northern Iraq subjected American troops to a large number of deadly attacks on Thursday, killing […]

Juan Cole

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Police Demonstrate In Basra Police

Police Demonstrate In Basra Police

Police demonstrate in Basra The police chief of Basra has been removed from office by the British. About two hundred policemen loyal to him staged […]

Juan Cole

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Kurdisharab Violence In Kirkuk Dozens

Kurdisharab Violence In Kirkuk Dozens

Kurdish/Arab Violence in Kirkuk Dozens of armed Kurdish men in Kirkuk attacked Arab tribesmen near the city on Thursday afternoon, according to al-Hayat. The Kurds […]

Juan Cole

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Uncompetitive Halliburton Contracts

Uncompetitive Halliburton Contracts

Uncompetitive Halliburton Contracts worth Billions in Iraq The contracts given last February by the US military to Halliburton for putting out petroleum fires and getting […]

Juan Cole

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