20 years after the invasion of Iraq
Pod Save the World
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The Insurgency Planning and the Poor Execution
Fiasco by Tom Ricks documents the sort of first couple of years after the invasion. The US did not send enough troops, which meant that things like massive Iraqi ammo depots were just left unguarded and used against US troops. "We basically disband the Iraqi army that then becomes the insurgency with those weapons," he says.
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