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85 Foreign Aff. 2 (2006)
Saddam's Delusions: The View from the Inside

handle is hein.journals/fora85 and id is 398 raw text is: Saddam's Delusions: The View From the Inside Kevin Woods, James Lacey, and W'illiamson Murray EDITOR S NOTE Thefall ofBaghdad in April2003 opened one of the most secretive and brutal governments in history to outside scrutiny. For thefirst time since the end of World War II, American analysts did not have to guess what had hap- pened on the other side of a conflict but could actually read the defeated enemys documents and interrogate its leadingfigures. To make the most of this unique opportunity, the US. Joint Forces Command (USJFCOM) commissioned a comprehensive study of the inner workings and behavior of Saddam Hussein's regime based on previously inaccessibleprimary sources. Drawing on interviews with dozens of captured senior Iraqi military and political leaders and hundreds of thousands of official Iraqi documents (hundreds of them fully translated), this two-year project will change our understanding of the warfrom the ground up. The study waspartially declassified in late February; its key findings are presented here. STRATEGIC CALCULUS THROUGHOUT THE years of relative external peace for Iraq after Operation Desert Storm, in 1991, Saddam Hussein continued to receive and give credence to optimistic assessments of his regime's prospects KEVIN WOODS is a defense analyst in Washington, D.C. JAMES LACEY is a military analyst for the U.S. Joint Forces Command. WILLIAMSON MURRAY is Class of 1957 Distinguished Visiting Professor of History at the U.S. Naval Academy. Along with Mark Stout and Michael Pease, they were the principal participants in the USJFCOM Iraqi Perspectives Project.

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