Talk:Iraq War order of battle

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Hey guys, and especially user:Dsw, great work on an thorough list of formations and units involved in the ongoing Iraqi war / Operation Iraqi Freedom operations. It's much much better than globalsecurity has managed to keep up.

Wanted to ask whether we should reorganise it under an operational chain of command - -> put British forces in under Multinational Division South East, etc, instead of as an independent category. What do people think?

Again congrats!!! Buckshot06 06:55, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

  • Thanks Buckshot06. The operational chain of command is not a bad suggestion but I wanted to try to keep the page somewhat user-friendly and make it easy for people to see each country's contribution. The overall command and control section you put on the Afghan ORBAT page was a good idea. Maybe that's what we need on the Iraq page. Dsw 15:36, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Invasion and occupation of Iraq casualties

Hi there, under the section heading "See also" the link titled "Invasion and occupation of Iraq casualties" seems to be poorly named, sounds like casualties are invading, can this be changed? Maybe just add and instead of...82.119.191.24 23:54, 9 February 2007 (UTC)Ilana

The article is now called Casualties of the conflict in Iraq since 2003 and I've fixed the link. --Nick Dowling 05:14, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Combat Units Only?

The first paragraph claims to be a list of "major units," and yet many large (and important) support units of brigade size (13th Sustainment Command, etc.) or larger are not included.

Is this an intentional combat unit bias or is this an incomplete element of the page that should be addressed? Yitzhak1995 19:18, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

  • It is not a conspiracy, just an incomplete list. You may also notice that many flying squadrons are not listed either. If you have units to add please, by all means, do so.--19:55, 12 April 2007 (UTC)


    • Much obliged, thank you! --Yitzhak1995 21:09, 12 April 2007 (UTC)


13MEU has moved to Camp Al Taqaddam http://www.blackanthem.com/News/U_S_Military_19/13th_Marine_Expeditionary_Unit_begins_operations_in_Al_Anbar7678.shtml

[edit] Special forces

This article mentions nothing about special forces deployment !--Max Mayr 04:45, 20 September 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Al-Hilla

There is no mentioning to the US unit in Al-Hilla--Max Mayr 07:19, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Citing Wikipedia

Hi all, I believe from a couple of searches that the Institute for the Study of War, which appears to be a Washington thinktank [1] operating in conjunction with the Weekly Standard may be copying this article without attributing it to Wikipedia. Their latest OB is here [2], and it and the two previous ones look very similar to the article. Do I understand correctly that citing us without attribution is not looked well upon, despite the GFDL? Buckshot06 22:37, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

Yes, that's right: according to Wikipedia:Copyrights Wikipedia content can be used for any purpose on the condition that Wikipedia is cited as the source and the new version can also be freely used by anyone. I think that there's a page where you can report violations of Wikipedia's conditions, but I can't remember what it's called. Last year I got an Australian website to properly acknowledge a large amount of material it had lifted without attribution by posting messages to the site admin on their public message boards. --Nick Dowling (talk) 09:10, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] update

this article could use an update. especially on when units are deploying. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.27.236.57 (talk) 06:00, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

It could use some more research as well, since there are discrepancies as to which units are deployed and which ones are deploying. The article suggests that some are deployed when they are not, does not identify units that have been identified in the news as deploying, and lists the same unit as being deployed and deploying shortly in the future. --Born2flie (talk) 03:36, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
Well, there's always Wikipedia:Be Bold Buckshot06 (talk) 05:23, 28 March 2008 (UTC)