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The "Coalition of the willing" named by the White House in 2003. In November 2002, U.S. President George W. Bush, visiting Europe for a NATO summit, declared that "should Iraqi President Saddam Hussein choose not to disarm, the United States will lead a coalition of the willing to disarm him." [1]
The term was coined in the early 1970s by MIT professor Lincoln P. Bloomfield and his colleagues, including Harland Cleveland of the University of Minnesota. [2] In July 1971, Bloomfield described the need for a coalition of willing nations to support important peacekeeping or conflict stabilization goals endorsed by the UN, in a NYT op-ed. [3] The term was picked up by Secretary of State ...
He held that position for nearly two years, including commanding the division during the invasion of Iraq in March 2003, before assuming command of V Corps on June 14, 2003. On this date he also became commander of Combined Joint Task Force 7, the coalition ground forces in the U.S.-led occupation of Iraq.
In September 2024, the US announced a "two-phase transition plan" to wrap up the counter-ISIS coalition operations in Iraq, which began in 2014. US troops will withdraw from certain parts of Iraq ...
This list of veterans against the Iraq War are all military veterans from nations which compose the "Coalition of the Willing" who either: A) Believe that the Iraq War was illegal, immoral, or unnecessary from the beginning; or B) Believe that the Iraq War is being waged incompetently or immorally, and have become publicly known as critics of ...
On February 5, 2003, the Secretary of State of the United States Colin Powell gave a PowerPoint presentation [1] [2] to the United Nations Security Council. He explained the rationale for the Iraq War which would start on March 20, 2003 with the invasion of Iraq. The decision to invade Iraq had already been made prior to the presentation being ...
Tony Blair and George W. Bush addressing the media after privately discussing the Iraq War. The Bush–Blair 2003 Iraq memo or Manning memo is a secret memo of a two-hour meeting between American President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair that took place on 31 January 2003 at the White House.
Washington says the coalition's mission needs to be reassessed in light of Islamic State's 2017 defeat in Iraq but does not view the talks as necessarily entailing a withdrawal of U.S. military ...