Iraq


U.S. uses Spy Satellites to Spy on Iraqi Army -- Greg Miller  -- Los Angeles Times  -- July 2, 2008
Spy Satellites

Caught off guard by recent Iraqi military operations, the United States is using spy satellites that ordinarily are trained on adversaries to monitor the movements of the American-backed Iraqi army, current and former U.S. officials say.

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Information Wars: Are the Iraqis Getting the Message? -- Bill Putnam  -- Strategic Insights  -- December 1, 2004
Information Warfare

Bill Putnam shares his insights from his year-long service in Iraq as head of the Coalition?s Open Source Intelligence Cell on why the Coalition is losing the all-important information war in Iraq.

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Jamming Incident Underscores Lessons About Space -- Staff  -- Spacedaily  -- October 14, 2004
Iraq

When anti-coalition forces in Iraq used jammers last year to thwart Global Positioning System precision-guided munitions in that theater, it represented a new, but not unexpected, challenge for the U.S. military: The first time an adversary challenged its dominance in space.

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New Spy Gear Aims to Thwart Attacks in Iraq -- Eric Schmitt  -- New York Times  -- October 23, 2003
Surveillance Technology

The Air Force and the Army are working on a classified project to use new combinations of surveillance aircraft and other sensors, along with intelligence on the ground, to try to detect and counter the increasingly deadly ambushes against American forces in Iraq.

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Analysts Doubt U.S. Claim on Iraqi Drones -- Staff  -- New York Times  -- August 24, 2003
Biological Warfare

Analysts now suspect that a fleet of Iraqi unmanned aerial vehicles weren't designed to dispense biological or chemical weapons but were actually unarmed reconnaissance drones.

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Iraq's Crash Course in Cyberwar -- Brian McWilliams  -- Wired News  -- May 22, 2003
Iraq

Just before their Net connections were bombed offline, Iraqis scoured an American information-warfare site in an apparent effort at self-defense. The attempt, futile as it may have been, illustrates the Web's growing role in military conflict.

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Nuclear watchdog fears terrorist dirty bomb after looting at al-Tuwaitha -- Ian Traynor  -- Guardian  -- May 14, 2003
Nuclear Proliferation

United Nations nuclear inspectors, barred from Iraq by Washington, are increasingly worried that the widespread looting and ransacking of Iraq's nuclear facilities may result in terrorists building a radioactive "dirty bomb".

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North Korean and Iraqi Cruise Missiles Raise Troubling Questions for Missile Defenses -- Dennis M. Gormley  -- Center for Nonproliferation Studies  -- April 8, 2003
Iraq

The author looks at the growing threat of cruise missiles, especially given recent tests by North Korea and Iraq, and argues that a sound defense against cruise missiles "depends as much on developing more effective nonproliferation policies as it does on planning for more versatile missile defenses."

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Is the U.S. Waging a Virtual War? -- Kyle Stock  -- PC World  -- March 27, 2003
Information Warfare

Computer viruses, worms, and electronic "pulses" could be doing substantial damage in Iraq, according to some cybersecurity experts.

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Satellite Photos of Iraq for Sale -- Jim Krane  -- Space.com  -- March 24, 2003
Iraq

For the Iraq war, the Pentagon has left two U.S. companies free to sell their images to all comers -- except representatives from countries blacklisted by the State Department.

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