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The Gamble

Page 49

by Thomas E. Ricks


  counterinsurgency manual and

  critics of

  determination of

  doctoral dissertation of

  final letter to troops by

  Gates’s offer of command to

  House Foreign Affairs Committee testimony of

  at insurgency manual conference

  on Iraqi elections

  Iraq team formed by

  in “light infantry,”

  local militias set up by

  made head of Central Command

  Maliki’s talks with

  in meetings with Bush

  Mosul campaign of

  Obama’s meeting with

  Petraeus, David (cont.)

  Odierno’s relationship with

  optimism of

  personality of

  on rumor of JAM deal

  shooting of

  surge and

  timetables and

  Petraeus, Holly

  Petraeus, Sixtus

  Phillips, Andrews

  Poirier, David

  Poland

  Pomante, Vincent

  Pool, Jeffrey S.

  Porter, Patrick

  Powell, Colin

  Powell, James

  Press, Elliott

  “Producing Victory,”

  Project for the New American Century

  Qatar

  Quayle, Chad

  Quds Force

  Raeford Drop Zone

  Raghavan, Sudarsan

  Rahman, Abel

  Rainey, James

  Ramadi, Iraq

  RAND Corporation

  rapid decisive operations

  Rapp, Bill

  Rasheed, Mamoun Sami

  Rayburn, Joel

  Reagan, Ronald

  Reconstruction

  Redacted (film)

  Reed, Jack

  Reese, Timothy

  Reid, Harry

  Remington, Frederic

  Republican Guard

  Republicans

  “revolt of the generals,”

  Ribat, Khadem al-

  Rice, Condoleezza

  Riggs, John

  Risha, Sittar albu-

  Rodriguez, Robert

  Rohrabacher, Dana

  Rome

  Roosevelt, Franklin D.

  Rose, Michael

  Rove, Karl

  Rubaie, Mowaffak al-

  Rubin, Alissa

  Rumsfeld, Donald

  Keane’s meetings with

  removal of

  and “revolt of the generals,”

  as wary of making changes

  Russia

  Ryndych, Yevgeniy

  Sabah, Lt. Col.

  Sab al-Bor, Iraq

  Sadr, Moqtada al-

  in Basra campaign

  cease-fire declared by

  Sadr, Muhammed Bakr

  Sadr City (Baghdad neighborhood)

  Salahuddin Provinces

  Salem, Aisha

  Salem, Safah Yunis

  Salem, Zainab

  Salih, Barham

  Salmani, Abu Mohammed

  Salman Pak, Iraq

  Samarra, Iraq

  Sanchez, Ricardo

  Sassaman, Nathan

  Saville, Jack

  Scales, Robert, Jr.

  Schmitt, Gary

  School of Advanced Military Studies

  Schoomaker, Peter

  Scowcroft, Brent

  Scranton, Deborah

  “Security Now”

  Senate, U.S.:

  Armed Service Committee of

  Foreign Relations Committee of

  Sepp, Kalev

  September 11 attacks

  Sewall, Sarah

  Shadid, Anthony

  Shama, Hassan

  Shammar tribe

  Sharratt, Justin

  Sheehan, John

  Shelton, Hugh

  Sherman, William T.

  Shiite militias

  Shiites

  Shiloh, battle of

  Shining Path

  Shinseki, Eric

  Shorja market

  Showman, Lee

  Shultz, George

  Silverman, Adam

  Simon, Steven

  Sistani, Ayatollah

  Sky, Emma

  Small Wars Journal

  Smith, Gordon

  Snowe, Olympia

  Somalia

  Sons of Iraq

  Southern Command

  Stampede, The (Remington)

  Stanton, Edwin

  Stanton, Martin

  Starr, Ann Exline

  State Department, U.S.

  Stavridis, James

  Steele, Michael

  Stone, Douglas

  Strachan, Hew

  Strader, Kent

  Strmecki, Marin

  Struck, Doug

  Sunnis

  Sunni Triangle

  Supreme Command (Cohen)

  surge, Iraq war

  accomplishments of

  AEI conference on

  Biden on

  council of colonels’ push for

  counteroffensive against

  five brigades for

  future of

  initiation of

  Iraq military training in

  Keane and

  low point of

  McCain’s support for

  mental health of soldiers and

  minisurge in

  Odierno’s plans and principles for

  Odierno’s pressing of

  opposition to

  Pace’s version of

  pessimism about

  Petraeus’s congressional testimony on

  psychological impact of

  “Security Now” plan for

  as tactical success

  Sutherland, David

  Swan, Guy

  Swannack, Charles

  Syria

  Tall Afar, Iraq

  Tamariyah, Iraq

  Tarmiyah, battle of

  Tarsa, Mike

  Tatum, Stephen

  Tenet, George

  Terrazas, Miguel

  Tertulien, Yvenson

  Thomson, J. T.

  Thurman, James

  Tikrit, Iraq

  Together Forward

  Together Forward

  torture

  Tovo, Kenneth

  Townsend, Steve

  Triangle of Death

  “Twenty-Eight Articles” (Kilcullen)

  Umm Qasr, Iraq

  United Iraqi Alliance

  United Nations

  Vang, Pao

  Veterans of Foreign Wars

  Vickers, Michael

  Vietnam War

  Visser, Reidar

  Voinovich, George

  Von Plinsky, Anthony

  Voorhies, David

  Wald, Charles

  Wallace, Cassandra

  Wallace, Cory

  Wallace, William

  Walter Reed Army Medical Center

  War for America, The (Mackesy)

  Ware, Michael

  War Managers, The (Kinnard)

  Warner, John

  War Tapes, The (film)

  War Within, The (Woodward)

  Washington Institute for Near East Policy

  Washington Post

  Webb, James

  Webb, Jimmy

  Weber, Gregory

  Weber, Vin

  Webster, Nathan

  West, Francis “Bing”

  White, Jeffrey

  White, Wayne

  Whitney, Matt

  Wicker, Roger

  Wilbraham, Andy

  Williams, Lee

  Williamson, Dan

  Williamson, Schuyler

  Wilson, Austin

  Wilson, Martin

  Wink, Jay

  Winnefeld, James “Sandy,” Jr.

  Wisme, Sarhan Hassan

  Wolfowitz, Paul

  Woodward, Bob

  Work, Robert

  World W
ar I

  World War II

  Wright, Andrew

  Wuterich, Frank

  Yemen

  Yezidi people

  Yingling, Paul

  Yusifyah, Iraq

  Zaganiyah, Iraq

  Zarqawi, Abu Musab al-

  Zawahiri, Ayman al-

  Zelikow, Philip

  Zinni, Anthony

  Zobaie, Faisal Ismail al-

 

 

 


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