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Major Niel Smith, U.S. Army, andColonel Sean MacFarland, U.S. Army

Major Niel Smith commanded B Company, 2d Battalion, 37th Armored Regiment, in Tal Afar and then served as a brigade S3 staff of cer for current operations in the Ready First during Operation Iraqi Freedom V. He cur - rently is the operations of cer at the U.S. Army-Marine Corps Counterin - surgency Center at Fort Leavenworth,Kansas. MAJ Smith holds a B.A. from James Madison University. His deployments include two tours in Operation

Iraqi Freedom.Colonel Sean MacFarland commanded the Ready First Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division,in Al Anbar province, returning with the unit in February 2007. He holds a B.S. from the United States Military Academy and an M.S. from Georgia Tech, and he is a graduate of the In - dustrial College of the Armed Forces.COL MacFarlands deployments include Operations Desert Shield/ Desert Storm and two tours as part of Operations Iraqi Freedom. He currently serves as chief of the Iraq Division, Strategic Plans and Policy Of ce (J5), Joint Chiefs of Staff.

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PHOTO: A U.S. Army Soldier fromTask Force 1-35 searches for insur -gents across the street from Outpost293 in Ar Ramadi, Al Anbar Province,Iraq, after the outpost was attackedby mortar and small arms re, 24July 2006, during Operation IraqiFreedom. (U.S. Air Force, TSGTJeremy T. Lock)

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A smoke plume caused by a terrorist attack at the government center in downtown Ramadi, Iraq, 13 March 2006.

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After the Fallujah offensive, the Americanstried to quell the insurgency in Ramadi witha combination of political maneuvers and the cooperation of tribal leaders to root out

foreign Islamist ghters But that plan has spectacularly fallen apart: The men whodared to ally themselves with the Ameri-cans quickly learned that the U.S. militarycouldnt protect them. Insurgents killed 70 of

Ramadis police recruits in January, and at least half a dozen high-pro le tribal leadershave been assassinated since then Ramadihas become a town where anti-American

guerrillas operate openly and city bureau-crats are afraid to acknowledge their jobtitles for fear of being killed The govern -ment center in downtown Ramadi comesunder gun re or mortar attacks daily. M g n K. S ck nd lou s roug, F of B g B

P n cs i q C ,Los Angeles Times , 11 Jun 2006.


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The chief of intelligence for the MarineCorps in Iraq recently led an unusual secret report concluding that the prospects for se-curing that countrys western Anbar provinceare dim and that there is almost nothing the

U.S. military can do to improve the political and social situation there . . .

S u on C d D n w s i q, thom s r cks,Washington Post , 11 S p mb 2006.


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When U.S. strategy in Iraq called for pull -ing American forces back to large, heavily

protected bases last year, Army Colonel SeanMacFarland was moving in the oppositedirection. He built small, more vulnerablecombat outposts in Ramadis most dangerousneighborhoods. We did it where Al-Qaedawas strongest, MacFarland says. Theoutposts housed U.S. troops, Iraqi security

forces, and civil affairs teams. It was a risky strategy that put U.S. soldiers in daily battleswith insurgents.

J m M ch s, an a m co on s g mb p soff n i q,USA Today , 30 ap 2007.


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The police station in Tameen, a district of Ramadi, occupies a wreck of a buildingitsroof shattered by shells, its windows blownout, its walls pockmarked by shrapnel. That is not unusual in Iraq. What makes this sta -tion extraordinary is that a city in the heart of the infamous Sunni Triangle, a city that once led the anti-American insurgency, hasnamed it after a U.S. soldierCaptain Travis

Patriquin. The honor is well deserved. Cap-tain Patriquin played a little-known, but cru -cial, role in one of the few American success

stories of the Iraq war. He helped to convert Ramadi from one of Iraqs deadliest citiesinto arguably the safest outside the semi-autonomous Kurdish north. This graveyard

for hundreds of American soldiers, which aMarine Corps intelligence report wrote off asa lost cause just a year ago, is where the U.S.military now takes visiting senators to showthe progress it is making.

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The Times , london, 31 augus 2007.

[COL MacFarland] agreed to set up police stations in their areas, but only if the sheiks would provide 100 men to serve as police elsewhere in the city. Last year therewere roughly 100 police patrolling Ramadi.

Now there are about 4,000. And where therewere once 4 outposts, there are 24, where

Americans and Iraqis live together.

tom Bo m n, U.S. So d s, i q Po c Un or d m r m d , NPR All Things Considered ,

22 F b u 2007.


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Selected slides from the PowerPoint presentation created by Captain Travis Patriquin. On 6 December 2006,Captain Patriquin was killed in action in Ramadi by an IED. Numerous sheiks attended his memorial service.


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A power struggle has erupted: al-Qaedasreign of terror is being challenged. SheikhSittar and many of his fellow tribal leadershave cast their lot with the once-reviled U.S.military. They are persuading hundreds of their followers to sign up for the previouslydefunct Iraqi police. American troops aremoving into a city that was, until recently, avirtual no-go area. A battle is raging for theallegiance of Ramadis battered and terri ed citizens and the outcome could have far-reaching consequences.

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While Al-Qaida has been driven fromthe city, it has not been driven from Anbar

Province, nor from Iraq. But Ramadiwhichthe Marines thought in August 2006 was fullyunder control of the insurgents, is THE ex-ample of Iraqi-American co-operation. Thereis an economic boom taking place: there arerebuilding projects; the porcelain factory isre-opening next month, shops are re-opening,

and better-quality food and goods are for sale in the marketsand salaries have risen20 percent in the last six months. For asMayor Latif Obaid said to me in April when

I attended his 3rd Economic Development Conference, Ramadi is open for business come visit us!

and lub n, r m d : Bu d ng on Succ ss,On Point , 30 Oc ob 2007.


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This article is dedicated to the members of the Ready First Combat Team who lost their lives to make Iraq a better place and to the tens of thousands of other

Soldiers and Marines who are still in the fght.

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Special thanks to Major Eric Remoy, Lieutenant Colonel Philip Mayberry,and Captain Michael Murphy who contributed to this article.

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This is news the world doesnt hear: Ramadi, long a hotbed of unrest, a city that once formed the southwestern tip of thenotorious Sunni Triangle, is now telling a different story, a story of Americans who

came here as liberators, became hated oc-cupiers and are now the protectors of Iraqireconstruction.

U ch F ch n , Hop nd D sp n D d d i q,Der Spiegel , 10 augus 2007.

1. F d ck w. K g n, th G sbu g of th s w , National Review , 3 S p2007.

2. M g n K. S ck nd lou s roug, F of B g B P n cs i q C ,Los Angeles Times , 11 Jun 2006.

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ference (Bos on: l , B o n nd Comp n , 2000).

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