1. IAFS 1000 Iraq and the Counterinsurgency Debate

2. Lecture Outline Counterinsurgency Feisal I of Iraq Cairo Conference British Withdrawal and Return Independent Iraq

3. Counterinsurgency (COIN) John Nagl (interview)(interview) –2005: Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife –2006: role in writing COIN Field Manual Defying categorization: –Andrew Bacevich –Sarah Sewall

4. Andrew Bacevich Andrew Bacevich on COIN 2005: The New American Militarism 2008: The Limits of Power Force is “an exceedingly uncertain instrument”

5. Sarah SewallSarah Sewall on COIN Member of Defense Policy Board 2007: introduction to COIN FM reprint Humanitarians must engage with military (see also Montgomery McFate)

6. Faisal I of Iraq (1883-1933) Son of Sherif Hussein of Mecca Early Arab nationalist 1921-33: King of Iraq

7. Cairo Conference (1921) Growing Arab unrest British desire to reduce financial burden of empire, legitimize Middle East involvement Kurdistan http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/iraq/images/iraq-map-group1.gif

8. British Withdrawal Faisal’s resistance British domestic pressure to withdraw 1932: Iraqi independence

9. ... and Return 1936 military coup (precedent) 1938: Nuri al-Said to power 1939: death of King Ghazi 1941: pro-German coup, British invasion 1948: British withdrawal

10. Republican Iraq 1958: republican coup, Nuri killed 1963: Baath party coup 1979: Saddam Hussein to power

11. Iraq under Saddam Hussein 1980-1988: Iran-Iraq war 1990-1991: Iraqi invasion of Kuwait >>> Gulf War 2003: US invasion of Iraq >>> insurgency

12. Lessons Value of ambiguity, shades of gray