brookings institution iraq index

• Web Site Assesses Progress of Iraq's Rebuilding Efforts

The Brookings Institution's Iraq Index is a statistical compilation of economic and security data, including crime, phone and water service, troop fatalities, unemployment, Iraqi security forces, oil production and coalition troop strength -- all based primarily on U.S. government information. The Brookings Web page also offers commentary, policy briefs and journals to add depth and context to the issues. www.brookings.edu/iraqindex

• Gazette, The; Colorado Springs, Colo.
• September 24, 2004

• Standing Up in Iraq

Just as congressional gamesmanship over Iraq last week hit its apex, The Brookings Institution updated its Iraq Index, one of the most revealing catalogs of the war's results. Among its most striking accounts is the progress being made in recruiting Iraqi security forces - they have nearly reached the goal set by the United States - and the unabated instances of insurgent attacks. If this is standing up, U.S. troops are not near ready to stand down. Even with upward revisions for the expected number of police, national guard and armed forces Iraq would need, security forces there are close to meeting their recruitment targets. According to the State Department's Iraq Weekly Status Report, Iraq's security forces now have 265,600 of 272,566 that they were expected to need. There remain qu...

• Bangor Daily News
• June 20, 2006

• On Balance

The number of U.S. troops wounded in Iraq in January fell to its lowest monthly total since the beginning of 2004, according to new Pentagon data. There were 306 troops wounded in action last month, according to the Brookings Institution's Iraq Index, which tracks data pertaining to the Iraq war. Not since January 2004 - when 146 troops were wounded - has the monthly total been so low.

• The Washington Times
• February 16, 2006

• Draining the Swamp: The British Strategy of Population Control

Markel presents a historical perspective of the British model for countering insurgencies. He also contrasts the two successful operations to the US experience in Vietnam and determines that the main lesson to be derived from those counterinsurgencies is that physical control of the contested segment of the population seemed essential.

... with a tenacious insurgency, this time in Iraq. Given our decidedly mixed record in counterinsurg...According to the Brookings Institution's December 2005 Iraq Index, such tips ...

• Parameters
• Vol. 36 Nbr. 1, April 2006

• On Balance

Despite the ongoing insurgent violence, the amenities of modern life are spreading to places in Iraq where they never previously existed. For instance, Iraq's telephone subscriptions have increased five-fold since Saddam Hussein's fall, according to the Brookings Institution's Iraq index. Automobile traffic, too, has increased dramatically - by five times, according to Brookings. The number of cars registered in Baghdad have more than doubled.

• The Washington Times
• December 09, 2005

• Letters to the Editor

Spending is a hard habit to break Re: "Cigarette tax hike deserves discussion," Jan. 30 Dan Radmacher column:

...'t help but be reminded of the cost of the Iraq war, of which Goodlatte has been a staunch defendder. As of 2010, according to The Brookings Institution Iraq Index, we had spent $900 billion...

• Roanoke Times & World News
• February 17, 2011

• On Balance

The number of U.S. troops wounded in Iraq fell to a 21-month low in December, while fatalities were down more than a third over the October and November figures. In December, 274 servicemen were wounded, according to the Brookings Institution's Iraq Index, down from 466 in November and 618 in October. Temporary lulls in violence caused by ceasefires during the December elections probably account for the decline.

• The Washington Times
• January 05, 2006

• A tale of two wars: public opinion on the U.S. military interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq.

...O'Hanlon. 2010. Afghan Index. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution. http://www...

• Presidential Studies Quarterly
• Vol. 40 Nbr. 4, December 2010

• On Balance

Iraqi police and military combat fatalities have decreased on a month-to-month basis since the summer. Last month, 176 Iraqi military and police officers were killed fighting terrorist insurgents, according to the Brookings Institution's Iraq Index. That's a steep decline from six months earlier, when nearly twice as many were killed. Deaths of Iraqi military and police peaked in July at 304 and have steadily decreased each month since. This month, Iraqi forces are on track to lose about half the numbers they lost at the peak. Through Dec. 19, 106 Iraqi military and police had been killed. The Brookings Iraq Index estimates that nearly 3,800 Iraqi police and members of the military have been killed since June 2003.

• The Washington Times
• December 22, 2005

• Dean: Bush Losing His Security Blanket; Americans Continue to Lose Confidence in President Bush (1/2)

WASHINGTON, March 16 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The following was released today by the Democratic National Committee (1 of 2): Three years after Vice President Cheney said that American troops would be greeted as liberators, the American military today is engaging in the largest air strikes since the war began. It is no wonder new polls confirm that the American people are continuing to lose confidence in the President's ability to lead the nation. President Bush's approval rating has hit 37 percent in the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal Poll and 33 percent in the new Pew Research Center for the People and the Press poll. The American people are particularly fed up with President Bush's commitment to a failed strategy in Iraq. According to the NBC News/Wall Street Journal Poll, 61 percent ...

... waning." (Washington Post, 9/ 9/04; Brookings Institution, "Iraq Index," Updated 5/26/05; Los An...

• U.S. Newswire
• March 16, 2006