Driving around Iraq has gotten safer
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers/Washington Post Driving around Iraq has gotten safer if you’re part of a U.S. Army convoy. In January of last year, a convoy had a 1 in 5 chance of coming under attack (that’s the tall bar on the left of the chart). By last December, 1 in 33 convoys were ...
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers/Washington Post
Driving around Iraq has gotten safer if you’re part of a U.S. Army convoy. In January of last year, a convoy had a 1 in 5 chance of coming under attack (that’s the tall bar on the left of the chart). By last December, 1 in 33 convoys were attacked (the bar on the far right). This April, it was just 1 in 100, according to data given to the Washington Post from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Why has it gotten safer? The Post‘s military correspondent, Tom Ricks, provides three reasons here.
Preeti Aroon was copy chief at Foreign Policy from 2009-2016 and was an assistant editor from 2007-2009. Twitter: @pjaroonFP
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