Civilian Casualties in the 2003 Iraq War: A Compendium of Accounts and Reports. compiled by Melissa Murphy and Carl Conetta of the Project on Defense Alternatives. This compendium collects excerpts of journalistic and other accounts of the civilian cost of the Iraq war in three categories: 1. Reports from hospitals and cemeteries that provide partial overviews of the extent of civilian and other casualties in the 2003 Iraq war; 2. Accounts of individual incidents of civilian fatalities resulting from combat operations; and, 3. Accounts pertaining to public health and hospital conditions during the war and after. The compendium is meant to serve as a database for further investigation of the modes and dynamics of conflict that generate non-combatant casualties.

By Project on Defense Alternatives , US.

Defense Policy Resource.

Burning Down the House: How the Iraq War Will Affect the International System. Nothing could be worse for arms control prospects and international stability than the impression that military activism and unilateralism are on the rise. This puts a premium on re-militarization, not de-militarization. By Carl Conetta.

By Project on Defense Alternatives , US.

Defense Policy Resource.

"Disarming Iraq: What Did the UN Missions Accomplish?" A review of the evidence finds that while UN disarmament missions contributed substantially to disarming Iraq and increasing confidence, they also left substantial residual uncertainties. However, the disarmament missions served to tightly constrain Iraq's WMD capability and undercut its effectiveness and standard military deterrence would have acted to keep this residual threat in check. By Carl Conetta.

By Project on Defense Alternatives , US.

Defense Policy Resource.

What Colin Powell Showed Us: The End of Arms Control and the Normalization of War. An appreciation of the value and limits of arms control is necessary in order to understand how debasing the standards of proof leads ultimately to the demise of diplomacy and the unnecessary resort to war. By Carl Conetta.

By Project on Defense Alternatives , US.

Defense Policy Resource.