Lint Center for National Security Studies

All:

A professor of mine is working on a study to quantify the impact of the “surge” in Iraq. I have been debating him on this subject matter for quite sometime (winning mostly - haha) but he asked about quantifying civilian efforts for development, infrastructure, etc following the “surge”. Specifically, he mentioned the reduction of IED attacks but he couldn’t find data supporting a casual link between the surge and the reduction.

Does anyone have any open-source information as to US strategy, US initiatives, or a US program which could be cited (or quantified) as a casual factor for the reduction in IEDs post-“surge” implementation?  

Best,