Summary: With the fall of the Tikrit region of Iraq 10 years ago this week, the U.S. and coalition partners declared the war effectively over, less than a month after its start. On May 1, President George W. Bush stood on the deck of an aircraft carrier and declared the end of combat operations. But that was hardly the end of the war and bloodshed. Terry Anderson, history professor at Texas A & M University and Vietnam veteran, looks back at the country’s costly military actions in Iraq and Afghanistan.
