U.S. Scorecard in Iraq

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THE U.S. military strategy in Iraq has been consistent for months now: Use aggressive military operations to disrupt the flow of foreign fighters entering the country and the insurgent support lines that run along the Euphrates River west to the Syrian border.

Simultaneously, the United States is training Iraqi troops to fill the security vacuum that persists in the center and north of the country.

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U.S. Scorecard in Iraq

By any metric of tactical military success, it's working, say analysts.

U.S. forces have strung together victory after victory. Marine and Army operations from Najaf in the south to Fallujah in the heart of the Sunni triangle and on to Mosul in the north have ended with thousands of insurgents killed and captur...

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