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(Photo by Andrea Comas, Reuters)

More than three thousand former Iraqi soldiers from the disbanded Iraqi army protest in front U.S. soldiers next to the headquarters
of the U.S.-led administration in Baghdad, 2 June 2003. The angry soldiers shouted slogans and vowed to launch suicide attacks on U.S.
troops unless they were given wages and compensation.

The Particular
Circumstances of
Time and Place

Why the Occupation of Japan
Succeeded and the Occupation of
Iraq Failed
Col. David Hunter-Chester, PhD, U.S. Army, Retired
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May-June 2016  MILITARY REVIEW