The War Up North: Iraq Combat Outpost Rabiya
Streetscape
Once regarded as a model of the counterinsurgency strategy developed by Maj. Gen. David Petraeus, Mosul was considered pacified in 2003. But these early successes collapsed after the departure of the 101st Airborne in early 2004.
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