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Despite gradual and steady increases in electricity, years of neglect and lack of maintenance hamper electricity generation and distribution in Iraq. An average of 100 megawatts (MW) per day in capacity is lost due to the lack of fuel and the need for improvements in transmission. Iraq is taking long-term steps to close the electricity supply-demand gap, recently signing contracts for new gas turbine generation totalling more than 10,000 MW. The first set of units, from General Electric (GE), is expected to begin shipping in mid-2009. Read the full report >

Average Daily Hours of Electrical Power per Province. View Graphic

Average Electricity Demand and Production for June 2006 through February 2009. View Graphic

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

Articles

Baker, Peter. “Iraq Adviser Departs Optimistic,” Washington Post, April 3, 2007, Front Page.

Bennett, Philip. “What We Don’t Know About Iraq,” Washington Post, March 15, 2009, Opinion Page.

Bumiller, Elisabeth. “Adviser Has President’s Ear as She Keeps Eyes on Iraq,” New York Times, June 12, 2006.

Dawisha, Adeed and Karen Dawisha. “How to Build a Democratic Iraq.” Foreign Affairs 82 (3), May/June 2003.

Dehghanpisheh, Babak and John Barry. “Brainiac Brigade; Some of the military’s finest minds helped craft the strategy that has produced some signs of good news out of Iraq. But even they don’t know if it will work,” Newsweek, September 17, 2007.

Jensen, Sterling. “Lessons from an Anbar Sheik,” Washington Post, September 29, 2007, Opinion Section.

Kaminski, Matthew. “Why the Surge Worked,” Wall Street Journal, September 20, 2008, Opinion Section.

Mansoor, Peter. “How the Surge Worked,” Washington Post, August 10, 2008, Opinion Section.

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Simon, Steve. “The Price of the Surge,” Foreign Affairs, May/June 2008.

Traub, James. “The Counterinsurgent: Gen. David Petraeus wanted to fight smarter in Iraq as well as send more troops,” New York Times, October 5, 2008, Book Review (Review of Tell Me How This Ends by Linda Robinson).

Zelikow, Philip. “For the Long Haul,” The American Interest, March-April 2008. Web link (retrieved March 16, 2009).

Books

Bashkin, Orit. The Other Iraq: Pluralism and Culture in Hashemite Iraq. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009.

Dawisha, Adeed. Iraq: A Political History from Independence to Occupation. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009.

Hinnebusch, Raymond and Anoushiravan Ehteshami, eds. The Foreign Policies of Middle East States. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2002.

Kilcullen, David. The Accidental Guerilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.

Marr, Phebe. The Modern History of Iraq. Boulder: Westview Press, 1985.

Polk, William R. Understanding Iraq. New York: Harper Perennial, 2005.

Ricks, Thomas E. The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008. New York: Penguin Press, 2009.

Robinson, Linda. Tell Me How This Ends: General David Petraeus and the Search for a Way Out of Iraq. New York: Public Affairs, 2008.

Tripp, Charles. A History of Iraq. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

West, Bing. The Strongest Tribe: War, Politics, and the Endgame in Iraq. New York: Random House, 2008.

Woodward, Bob. The War Within: A Secret White House History 2006-2008. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008.

Interviews

Keane, General Jack. Interview with Gen. Jack Keane for America Abroad, April 10, 2009.

Keane, Gen. Jack. “Interview Gen. Jack Keane (Ret.).” Interview with Gen. Jack Keane, February 8. 2007 and May 1, 2007. Web link (retrieved March 10, 2009).

Mansoor, Colonel Peter. Interview with Col. Peter Mansoor for America Abroad, March 31, 2009.

O’Sullivan, Meghan. Interview with Meghan O’Sullivan for America Abroad, April 3, 2009.

Satterfield, Ambassador David. Interview with Amb. David Satterfield for America Abroad, April 3, 2009.

Memos

“Text of U.S. Security Adviser’s Iraq Memo.” National Security Council, November 2006. Web link (retrieved April 7, 2009).

Speeches/Testimony

McMaster, Colonel H.R. “After the Iraq Offensive.” Remarks at the American Enterprise Institute, Washington, DC, May 13, 2008. Web link (retrieved March 6, 2009).

Satterfield, Ambassador David. “Ambassador David Satterfield Senior Advisor on Iraq to the Secretary of State Remarks Before the Senate Armed Services Committee.” Testimony before the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee, Washington, DC, November 15, 2006. Web link (retrieved March 11, 2009).

Satterfield, Ambassador David. “The Way Forward in Iraq with Ambassador David Satterfield.” Remarks at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, September 17, 2007. Web link (retrieved April 2, 2009).