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This list of veterans against the Iraq War are all military veterans from nations which compose the "Coalition of the Willing" who either: A) Believe that the Iraq War was illegal, immoral, or unnecessary from the beginning; or. B) Believe that the Iraq War is being waged incompetently or immorally, and have become publicly known as critics of ...
The term coalition of the willing was applied to the United States-led Multi-National Force – Iraq, the military command during the 2003 invasion of Iraq and much of the ensuing Iraq War. The coalition was led by the U.S. federal government.
Mar 17, 2023 · For years afterward, the country was occupied by the American military and soldiers sent from “the coalition of the willing”—31 motley nations, excluding most of Europe, except for the U.K....
- Culturally Diverse Armed Forces
- Good Guys Or Bad guys?
- Failures of Reconstruction
- ‘We Put Them in Charge’
- Loss of Legitimacy and Growing Insurgency
- Increasingly Dangerous
- What Was The Real Goal?
The soldier-force Western militaries deployed to fight the War on Terror was the most diverse in history: providing language skills, cultural competencies and the ability to communicate with local women. It was also a representational device, reflecting the invading forces’ rhetoric of pluralism, tolerance and equality. Yet these soldiers waged a d...
Navajo marine veteran Eric Bauer connected with Iraqis similarly to how he’d connect with other Native Americans: talking about relationships, family and community rather than resumes. By doing this, he explained, “they knew who I was as a person, and vice versa”. Bauer was tasked with the practical process of setting up councils in Baghdad. He had...
Denise Dauphinais worked for USAID’s Office of Transition Initiatives. As a civilian with foreign policy expertise, she was critical of how the US military handled – or neglected – seemingly obvious tasks such as clearing rubble, preventing looting, and making the cities feel safe and liveable. Electricity supply was another major problem. The US a...
The US was determined to prevent concentration of power by any one group, so they allocated different offices to the parties representing different ethnic and religious groups. But the result was a system of quotas that fostered sectarian conflict between those groups, as potential leaders traded on identity to consolidate their power bases. Bauer,...
This ongoing US interference in supposedly Iraqi democratic institutions meant a loss of legitimacy. As a result, several moderate Sunni groups boycottedthe 2005 parliamentary elections. Lack of trust in the new local authorities, combined with the effects of de-Ba’athification, propelled the growing insurgency. Munthir Nalu was an Iraqi expatriate...
Iraq felt increasingly dangerous, the interviewees reported. Many were concerned about the influx of foreign fighters across the borders, and increased attacks on anyone associated with the occupying forces. Bauer felt lucky he was still able to move freely, because of his Navajo looks: Still, he acknowledged The interviewees were aware the US had ...
The weapons of mass destruction – the stated justification for the war – were almost absent from the Iraq Experience interviews, because in late 2004, it was already apparentthey didn’t exist. Only Bauer mentioned them, and only briefly, stating: Instead, the interviewees focused on two interlinked justifications for the war: removing a tyrant from...
Mar 16, 2023 · Two decades ago, Australia joined the US-led “coalition of the willing” that staged a major military intervention in Iraq. To justify the war, leaders like US President George W. Bush and...
- Benjamin Isakhan
The chapter details these inputs and examines how each contributed to the unilateral strategy the United States pursued in the Iraq War. Keywords: United States, 2003 Iraq War, unilateralism, military interventions.
Feb 22, 2007 · The ’Coalition of the Willing’ Backgrounder: The latest U.S. surge coincides with a drawdown of British forces. The dwindling coalition may hinder U.S. efforts to secure Iraq.
