{"id":339934,"date":"2010-02-19T14:05:57","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T19:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=77118"},"modified":"2010-02-19T14:05:57","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T19:05:57","slug":"the-iraq-war-by-a-different-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/339934","title":{"rendered":"The Iraq War by a Different Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Starting on Sept. 1, when combat troops depart Iraq and 50,000 training\/advisory troops remain, the war once known as Operation Iraqi Freedom <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/02\/18\/AR2010021805888.html?wprss=rss_world\/mideast\">will become Operation New Dawn<\/a>. The name change will &#8220;recognize our evolving relationship with the Government of Iraq,&#8221; Defense Secretary Robert Gates writes to Gen. David Petraeus, commander of U.S. troops in the Middle East and South Asia.<\/p>\n<p>The symbols are less important than the actual withdrawal, which will be completed in December 2011. But one bit of trivia: Operation Iraqi Freedom was so named because of an effort to tie it to what used to be known as the War on Terror in Central Command&#8217;s context. The Afghanistan war had been dubbed Operation Enduring Freedom, so Centcom under former commander Tommy Franks thought of calling the Iraq war Operation Desert Freedom, since all Centcom&#8217;s previous Iraq operations &#8212; Desert Shield, Desert Storm, Desert Fox &#8212; had &#8220;Desert&#8221; in the title. But then someone thought that the rest of the Arab world would take &#8220;Desert Freedom&#8221; to mean &#8220;The Americans are invading here next&#8221; and thought better of it. Operation Iraqi Freedom it was.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting on Sept. 1, when combat troops depart Iraq and 50,000 training\/advisory troops remain, the war once known as Operation Iraqi Freedom will become Operation New Dawn. The name change will &#8220;recognize our evolving relationship with the Government of Iraq,&#8221; Defense Secretary Robert Gates writes to Gen. David Petraeus, commander of U.S. troops in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4314,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-339934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4314"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}