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Baqubah Battle Analysis

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The Battle of Baqubah: Army Intelligence Failures By: SFC Stuart C. Fowler July 15, 2015 Abstract The purpose for writing this paper is to define the Battle of Baqubah in Operation Arrowhead Ripper. Within an eight year conflict in Iraq, its known that 3rd Brigade (BDE), 2nd Infantry (INF) Division (DIV) had dropped more ordnance than any other DIV in IRAQ. This will also depict the bad Intelligence (INTEL) that was given to the maneuver Battalion (BN) on the size of the al-Qaeda (AQI) in Baqubah. The lack of Intel halted the maneuver BN’s operations until the maneuver BDE plus reinforced the maneuver BN. The purpose of this battle analysis is to discuss how Army Intelligence failed to give adequate size of AQI working in Baqubah, Iraq and the Unit that was a Heavy unit (Mechanized INF and Tanks) failure to organize their forces effectively to confront the …show more content…

The mission was to attack and clear al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), from Diyala Province in Baqubah The bad Intel was said that there were only 500 to 800 AQI combatants when we initiated operations in Buhriz. On the morning of 14 of March 2007, the Regulars would soon realize that we walked into a hornets nest. When the Regulars began clearing operations in Buhriz they did not know the exact number of AQI that would be in the city. Route (RTE) Gold was the only road into Buhriz this is where the Regulars would encounter their first improvised explosive device (IED), deep buried improvised explosive device (DBIED) and house borne improvised explosive device (HBIED). AQI had hundreds of mines and IED’s laid out in the roads or in manhole covers in sewer diches. (Cpt Chuck

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