WEST POINT RELEASES IRAQI FREEDOM MAPS – Feb. 26, 2009

WEST POINT, N.Y. –The Department of History’s Center for Cartographic Excellence at West Point has produced the first two in a series of maps pertaining to Operation Iraqi Freedom that are available to the public on-line.

With the expertise of Maj. Tom Rider, assistant professor, both maps , Coalition Offensive in Southern Iraq: 20-28 March 2003 (Map 1) and The Isolation of Baghdad: 29 March –7 April 2003 (Map 2), augment West Point’s long tradition within the department of military history mapmaking that dates back to the Esposito atlases. 

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