Podcast: The Spear – The Three-Block War in Sadr City
For then-Major Bill “Fenway” Wyman, Sadr City in 2004 was a strange mix of combat and humanitarian...
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Timothy Heck | 07.19.21 | The Spear
For then-Major Bill “Fenway” Wyman, Sadr City in 2004 was a strange mix of combat and humanitarian...
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This episode of The Spear looks at a different type of story than most we have featured. In 2009,...
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In 2003, after months of diplomatic maneuvering, American and coalition forces crossed into Iraq...
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In 2007, Marines in western Iraq began actively patrolling areas near the Syrian border in an...
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