To provide perspective on Operation Iraqi Freedom, I offer here a brief comparison using the modern principles of war. The U.S. Army published its first list of them in War Department Training Regulations No. 10-5, 1921, and they are explained in current service manuals—including Joint Warfare of the U.S. Armed Forces, a pamphlet published shortly after Operation Desert Storm by then-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Colin Powell.
