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<strong>Air</strong> <strong>Power</strong>, <strong>Insurgency</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> “War on Terror”
<strong>the</strong> bridge with no losses. Wayne Thompson, To Hanoi <strong>and</strong> Back: The USAF <strong>and</strong>
North Vietnam, 1966-1973 (Washington: <strong>Air</strong> Force History <strong>and</strong> Museums Program,
2000), pp. 234-35.
431. JDAM <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> new Small Diameter Bomb – a glide bomb with a 250 lb, warhead
– are both GPS guided <strong>and</strong> can be individually targeted from <strong>the</strong> cockpit. The
latter is reported to have better than three-metre accuracy.
432. General Wesley K Clark, Waging Modern War (New York: Public Affairs, 2001),
p. 183. In decrying those who complained that too many Iraqi soldiers died in
Desert Storm, Harry Summers wrote a trenchant editorial with <strong>the</strong> heavily
sarcastic title, “Bambifying War: A Virus from <strong>the</strong> Ideological Swamp,” Washington
Times, 19 September 1991, p. G1.
433. To track this decline, see <strong>the</strong> Gallup Poll website: http://www.poll.gallup.com/.
434. Walter J Boyne, Operation Iraqi Freedom (New York: Forge, 2003), pp. 95-106.
435. See constantly updated casualty figures by phase of operation:
http://www.icasualties.org/oif/ <strong>and</strong>
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/casualty.pdf. The RAF also lost a C-130 to
ground fire in <strong>the</strong> aftermath of major combat operations.
436. In his memoirs, Bremer claims this decision had been made in Washington before
he was appointed; none<strong>the</strong>less, he agreed with it <strong>and</strong> convinced Defense Secretary
Donald Rumsfeld not to institute <strong>the</strong> policy until he arrived in his new post <strong>and</strong>
could issue it himself. L Paul Bremer, My One Year in Iraq (New York: Simon &
Schuster, 2006), p. 39.
437. Larry Diamond, Squ<strong>and</strong>ered Victory: The American Occupation <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> Bungled
Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq (New York: Times Books, 2005), p. 39.
438. US Army, Field Manual 1, “The Army,” June 2005, paragraph 3-35.
439. The US Army’s Strategic Studies Institute warned in January 2003 that such
planning was essential, see “Restructuring Iraq: Challenges <strong>and</strong> Missions for
Military Forces in a Post-Conflict Scenario”:
http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pdffiles/PUB183.pdf. See also
Michael R Gordon <strong>and</strong> Bernard E Trainor, Cobra II: The Inside Story of <strong>the</strong> Invasion
<strong>and</strong> Occupation of Iraq (New York: Pan<strong>the</strong>on, 2006), chapter 8.
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