The 2003 intervention in Iraq, also known as the Second Gulf War, was a complete success from a purely military perspective. However, almost immediately after its official conclusion in May 2003, many problems began to pile up for American units. First of all, the American command committed significantly fewer forces to the Second Gulf War than it had in the 1990-1991 conflict, which led to the inability of these forces to carry out their tasks of clearing and "occupation". This, in turn, meant that during the first week after the end of the war in Iraq, there was widespread administrative and organizational chaos, which contributed to the seizure of weapons (often abandoned by the regular Iraqi army) by all kinds of guerrillas, terrorist organizations and all sorts of organizations opposed to the presence of foreign troops in Iraq. It is worth adding that after May 2003, all of Iraq was divided into four zones: northern, central, south-central and southern, where coalition forces were stationed, consisting of Americans, British, Poles and soldiers from many other countries. The so-called process of normalization and stabilization of Iraq. Civilian administration of Iraq, in turn, was in the hands of the American diplomat Lewis Paul Bremer until June 2004. From that moment on, it passed into the hands of the interim government of Iraq headed by Iyad Allawi. However, realistically speaking, in 2003-2011, a guerrilla war was going on in Iraq, which destabilized the country and hindered any modernization or democratic processes. During it, American troops lost about 3,500 killed and about 52,000 wounded. The lowest estimate of Iraqi civilian deaths is around 23,000, the highest estimate is hundreds of thousands...
