Walling Out the Bad Guys

I loved these walls from the start. Here is a good look at the technology and politics surrounding it. A really good article to read and study. Interesting look at how things in Baghdad are improving, so, naturally, we will not read about this in the Media.

Defense Tech: Walling Out the Bad Guys: "Walling off vulnerable Baghdad neighborhoods is critical to breaking the cycle of revenge killings in Iraq, according to U.S. Army General David Petraeus' counter-insurgency advisor.

Portable barriers installed between neighborhoods enable U.S. and Iraqi forces to limit the nighttime movements of death squads and insurgents, says Dr. David Kilcullen, a lieutenant colonel in the Australian army reserve who has spent years studying terror groups and methods for defeating them.

'What we've tried to do is put in a series of blocks to stop that cycle [of violence] from running, and if it does run, to reduce the number of people killed in attacks' by limiting the scale and frequency of attacks, Kilcullen explains.

He uses the term 'gated community' to describe the walled-off neighborhoods. The first to be enclosed was Sunni community of Adhamiyah in April. The decision to wall of a particular area is made by the U.S. battalions on the ground."