BAGHDAD SECURITY PLAN -- JOINT SECURITY STATIONS

Expect the forces to establish one or more Combat Outposts (or COPs)

U.S. soldiers will be stationed in the outposts to secure individual neighborhoods.

• little forts scattered through Baghdad

• clusters of fortified houses

• "gated communities"

• fortified towns (Malaysia)

• The Alamo Strategy (Texas)

• strategic hamlets (Vietnam)

• Quadrillage (Algeria)

• Fort Apache (The Bronx)

• numerous small garrisons placed alone in "Indian Country" (North America)

• clear and hold,

• hearts and minds

• stationary targets for warring militias.

• "They've got us surrounded"

• “I’m a juicy target they are just trying to figure out,”

• Hell in a Very Small Place;

• sitting duck for truck bomb and mortar feature.