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Parent topics

• United States Army [r]: Branch of the United States Armed Forces with the principal responsibility of conducting large-scale ground combat [e]
• General [r]: In current military organizations, the highest military rank (although the naval equivalent is admiral); also used in the sense of general officer, the highest grade of ranks of which this is the highest [e]
• United States Central Command [r]: Unified Combatant Command responsible for U.S. operations in the Middle East and Southwest Asia, now under the command of General David Petraeus [e]

Subtopics

• Third United States Army [r]: In United States Central Command, the headquarters organization for United States Army Components. Also designated ARCENT. [e]

• Gulf War [r]: The conflict started by the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990, and ended with the liberation of Kuwait and major damage to Iraqi forces, by a US-led UN coalition in 1991. [e]
  • 1st Cavalry Division [r]: A heavy division of the United States Army, partially deployed to Baghdad; part of III Corps at Fort Hood, Texas [e]

• Anthony Zinni [r]: A retired U.S. Marine Corps four-star general, whose assignments included heading United States Central Command and serving as a special envoy for the Israel-Palestinian process. He is strongly critical of the George W. Bush Administration and resigned, in protest, from his diplomatic role. [e]

• Donald Rumsfeld [r]: U.S. Secretary of Defense in the George W. Bush Administration (2001-2008); was the oldest secretary and earlier the youngest secretary in the Administration (1975-1977); major policymaker after the 9-11 attack; advisor, Project for the New American Century [e]
• Douglas Feith [r]: An American strategic analyst, associated with neoconservatism, who held posts including Under Secretary of Defense for Policy in 2001-2005, when he advised Donald Rumsfeld on the Iraq War; fellow of the Hudson Institute [e]
• Paul Wolfowitz [r]: An American political scientist and policy-level foreign affairs official, of a neoconservative ideology; resident American Enterprise Institute and on International Security Advisory Board; Deputy Secretary of Defense in the George W. Bush Administration; advisor, Project for the New American Century [e]
• Richard Clarke [r]: Career U.S. defense official who served in policy posts in the Ronald Reagan,George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush Administrations, specializing in counterterrorism in the latter two [e]

• Mike DeLong [r]: Retired lieutenant general, U.S. Marine Corps, who was GEN Tommy Franks' Deputy Commander at United States Central Command in 2001-2003 [e]
• John Abizaid [r]: Retired general, United States Army; succeeded GEN Tommy Franks to head United States Central Command after Iraq War, major combat phase; native Arabic speaker; fellow, Hoover Institution; Former Senior Advisor, Preventive Defense Project, Belfer Center, 2007-2009 [e]

• Afghanistan War (2001-) [r]: Beginning on October 7, 2001, in response to the 9-11 attacks, military operations against the Taliban and al-Qaeda by United States and NATO forces [e]
  • Gary Berntsen [r]: Add brief definition or description
  • Mohammed Qasim Fahim [r]: A Tajik warlord and Northern Alliance commander, running as vice president with Hamid Karzai in the 2009 Afghanistan election; accused of human rights violations [e]
  • Abdul Rashid Dostum [r]: Afghan Uzbek warlord who had been the dominant figure in the north, although he may have gone into exile in Turkey [e]
  • Karim Khalili [r]: (1950-) Currently the second vice president in the Afghan government of Hamid Karzai, a member of the Hazara group and a Shi'a [e]
  • Ismail Khan [r]: A Hazara warlord of western Afghanistan, whose base is in Herat, with good ties to but not under the control of Iran; he has been on both sides of warfare [e]
  • Afghanistan War (2001-), major combat phase [r]: During the Afghanistan War (2001-), the period of combat by Afghan ground forces, with U.S. and British air & special operations support, which drove the Taliban and al-Qaeda from their bases, in October through December 2001 [e]

• Iraq War [r]: Invasion of Iraq by a coalition of countries, led by the United States, in 2003, and subsequent occupation [e]
  • Iraq War, theater operational planning [r]: Detailed invasion planning for the Iraq War by United States Central Command, once the policy decision had been made to prepare for war [e]
    • Doug Macgregor [r]: A retired U.S. Army colonel who has written extensively on military transformation and revolutions in military affairs; advised Donald Rumsfeld in Iraq War planning [e]
    • Ahmed Chalabi [r]: An Iraqi politician, who spent much of his time in exile or in Kurdistan, who has declining influence in the current situation but is still regarded as well-connected [e]
  • Iraq War, major combat phase [r]: That part of the Iraq War involving the initial invasion by large-scale ground forces [e]
    • David McKiernan [r]: A U.S Army General who was relieved early of command of the International Security Assistance Force, NATO's headquarters in Afghanistan; he commanded the ground forces in the Iraq War and is an armored combat specialist, as opposed to his replacement, GEN Stanley McChrystal, a special operations officer [e]
    • V Corps [r]: A major tactical and operational command headquarters of the United States Army, normally forward-deployed in Heidelberg, Germany as part of United States European Command [e]
      • "Scott" Wallace [r]: Known as "Scott", retired General in the U.S. Army, who led V Corps in the Iraq War, and became the four-star head of Training and Doctrine Command [e]
    • I Marine Expeditionary Force [r]: A Marine Air-Ground Task Force, based at Camp Pendleton, California, built around the 1st Marine Division and the 1st Marine Air Wing, but capable of operating as a corps headquarters [e]
    • James Conway [r]: 34th U.S. Commandant of the Marine Corps, who took office in 2006, having commanded I Marine Expeditionary Force in the Gulf War [e]
  • Iraq War, insurgency [r]: The period of the Iraq War following the end of major combat operations, and the beginning of significant guerilla warfare in July-August 2003 [e]

Other related topics

• Intelligence interrogation, U.S., George W. Bush Administration [r]: The policies and practices authorized for interrogation of suspected terrorists by the United States Department of Defense and the United States intelligence community during the George W. Bush Administration [e]
• Iraqi National Congress [r]: An Iraqi political party, originally in exile, headed by Ahmed Chalabi; does not have any current seats in the National Assembly [e]