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BATTLE // 2007

Surge Security Operations

Baghdad/Anbar · 33.315, 44.366

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Overview

In 2007, during the Iraq War, the George W. Bush administration increased the number of U.S. military combat troops in Iraq in order to provide security to Baghdad and Al Anbar Governorate. The event has been called the troop surge or simply the surge.

Overview adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Significance

COIN strategy shift

Result

Violence reduced

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