The lightning campaign that toppled the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq in the spring of 2003 at first seemed to herald the arrival of a new way of war, as Germany\'s blitzkrieg had done at the beginning of World War II.
In Iraq, American soldiers and their Coalition partners had merely traded one fairly. effort to pacify the Philippines after the quick defeat of Spain in 1898.
But the initial victory in Iraq soon devolved into a persistent counterinsurgency conflict reminiscent of the long U.
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The lightning campaign that toppled the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq in the spring of 2003 at first seemed to herald the arrival of a new way of war, as Germany\'s blitzkrieg had done at the beginning of World War II