With a Little Help from Our Friends?: The Costs of Coalition Warfare

Local resident with daughter at a medical clinic in Hasan ad Daryush run by Iraq and Coalition forces-January 2008

Source: DoD; arcent.army.mil

A Bosnian and Herzegovinan explosive ordinance disposal unit prepare to explode a stash of Iraqi artillery found in Asal Belly, east of Ad Diwaniyah, Iraq-Feb 2008

Source: DoD; arcent.army.mil

A Royal Air Force gunner kneels next to his machine gun on a flight over Basra, Iraq-Oct. 27, 2008

Source: DoD; arcent.army.mil

Press Conference with the major American government officials associated with the Coalition, NSA's Condoleeza Rice, Sec of State Colin Powell, President George Bush and Sec of Defense Donald Rumsfeld

Source: Executive Office of the President of the United States

British PM Tony Blair and U.S. President George W. Bush meet to discuss the Coalition in November 2004

Source: Executive Office of the President of the United States; wikipedia.org

American military personnel assist Coalition partners in urban warfare training near Baghdad

Source: DoD, wikipedia.org

Soldiers assigned to Company B, 4th Battaion, 9th Infantry Regiment, before an air assault into an outlying village of Baqouba, Iraq, June 18, 2007, part of Operation Arrowhead Ripper

Source: DoD, wikipedia.org

Canadian Troops load a coffin into a transport plane in Afghanistan

Source: Canadian government (www.combatcamera.forces.gc.ca)

Afghan National Army Brigadier General Gul Aqa Naibi with Australian soldiers of the Reconstruction Task Force

Afghan National Army Brigadier General Gul Aqa Naibi salutes the Australian soldiers of the Reconstruction Task Force who helped build Forward Operating Base (FOB) Locke in Afghanistan. The base has been named in honour of Special Air Service (SAS) soldier Sergeant Matthew Locke

Source: Department of Defense (wikipedia.org)

U.S. Army Element of Iraq Coalition - Shoulder Sleeve Insignia (The seven pointed star stands for the Sunni, Shia, Kurd, Turkoman, Assyrian, Yazidi and Armenian peoples of Iraq)

Source: Department of Defense

Australian Ship Newcastle in the background, during a deployment passing near the USS Nimitz in the Persian Gulf.

Source: Department of Defense (wikipedia.org)

Spc. Jason Curtis, Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 151st Infantry Regiment, pulls security while leaders of a medical civil action project searched for a suitable site in Parun, Afghanistan, 2008

Source: Department of Defense (wikipedia.org)

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With a Little Help from Our Friends?: The Costs of Coalition Warfare

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