Truman National Security Project

Truman Project Fellow Kayla Williams discusses the effects of war for veterans returning from Iraq. Nicole Goodwin was a private in the US army when she gave birth to her daughter Shylah on March 16, 2003. Four months later she was in Baghdad, fighting a war. Most of her tour was spent on base, serving [...]

Truman Fellow Eli Sugarman on why United States Iraq policy cannot ignore Kurdistan. March 19th marks the ten-year anniversary of the beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Iraq has largely fallen off the United States foreign policy agenda since U.S. troops left the country at the end of 2011.  Meanwhile, Washington has embraced a passive “one-Iraq” [...]

Truman Defense Council member Kate Hoit discusses her time in Iraq for WAMC radio. This past week marked the 10th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq by U.S. led coalition forces, the beginning of a war that, to date, has cost the lives of over 4,400 U.S. men and women in uniform, and, by some [...]

Truman Project Fellow Eli Sugarman writes about the current state of Iraq’s democracy. ERBIL, IRAQ – Almost a decade after the U.S. liberated Iraq, the country is a U.S. friend and ally. But it is still beset by ethnic and sectarian infighting. Iraq’s nascent democracy has seesawed back and forth between gridlock and conflict over [...]

The Good Men Project highlights the Truman Project’s Iraq 10 Years Project. 10 years ago this week the US invaded Iraq, and after a decade of war, nearly 5,000 American servicemembers have died in that conflict. According to a recent study, the Iraq War has cost $2.2 trillion and over 190,000 lives. After 10 years of [...]