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104. Maj. Gen. John F. Kelly, interview, ibid., 244. See also Lt. Col. Kurt Wheeler,
“Good News in Al Anbar?,” Marine Corps Gazette (April 2007), and “II
MEF Marines Depart Anbar Province: Security Remains Stable,” Leatherneck
(March 2008).
105. Maj. Adam T. Strickland, “MCDP 1, Warfighting, Revisited,” Marine Corps
Gazette (August 2005): 53. See also Gordon Dillow, “Building Karmah: Fighting
Terrorism with Handshakes and Smiles,” Leatherneck (August 2004): 14.
106. Cable, Conflict of Myths, 168, 108.
107. Lt. Col. Lance A. McDaniel, “Transitioning from Conventional Combat,”
Marine Corps Gazette (November 2005): 53; Reynolds, Basrah, Baghdad, and
Beyond, 118–19. See also USMC, Small- Unit Leaders’ Guide to Counterinsurgency,
25, 54, 119; Campbell, Joker One, 86; and Ardolino, Fallujah Awakens,
22–23.
108. Lt. Gen. John F. Kelly, foreword to Montgomery and McWilliams, Al- Anbar
Awakening, 2:x.
109. Lt. Col. Kurt Wheeler, “Counterinsurgency Success in Al Anbar,” Leatherneck
(October 2007): 21.
110. Col. Michael M. Walker, interview in McWilliams and Wheeler, Al- Anbar
Awakening, 1:74.
111. Ardolino, Fallujah Awakens, 104–5.
112. Ibid., 63–78.
113. Maj. Gen. James N. Mattis, interview in McWilliams and Wheeler, Al- Anbar
Awakening, 1:33.
114. Weston, Mirror Test, 133, 122.
115. Mattis, interview in McWilliams and Wheeler, Al- Anbar Awakening, 1:32.
116. Ardolino, Fallujah Awakens, 180–203.
117. Ibid., 109.
118. Ibid., 110, 208.
119. Noted within oral histories from Sheikh Aifan Sadun al- Issawi, Sheikh Sabah
al- Sattam Effan Fahran al- Shurji al- Aziz, Mr. Kamis Ahmad Abban al- Alwani,
and Maj. Gen. Tariq Yusif Mohammad al- Thiyabi, available in Montgomery
and McWilliams, Al- Anbar Awakening, 2:92.
120. Matthew T. Penny examines the particulars within the Anbar context that contributed
to success there and argues that they may not be easily duplicated. Penny,
“Anbar Awakening in Context,” 111. See also Kahl, “Walk before Running.”
121. 1st Lt. Jason Goodale and 1st Lt. Jon Webre, “The Combined Action Platoon
in Iraq,” Marine Corps Gazette (April 2005): 40–42; Lt. Col. Philip C. Skuta,
“Introduction to 2/7 CAP Platoon Actions in Iraq,” Marine Corps Gazette
(April 2005): 35; Lt. Col. Philip Skuta, “Partnering with the Iraqi Security
Forces,” Marine Corps Gazette (April 2005).
122. Goodale and Webre, “Combined Action Platoon,” 40–42.
123. USMC, Small- Unit Leaders’ Guide to Counterinsurgency, 3.
124. Wheeler, “Good News in Al Anbar?,” 36.
125. Wheeler, “Counterinsurgency Success in Al Anbar,” 23.