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Initial invasion about the same.... Don't immediately disband the iraqi police and military instead pupeteer them temporaily while cunducting internal and investigations of its memebers and reorganization. This would have helped to prevent militias and unrest from forming as much. I'd also have a tendancy to keep in force a curfew for the most part. A media blackout would also be in effect. In troubled areas there would be an opertunity evacuate through a checkpoint where searched by all people then from that point everyone within the area would be considered hostile. Yes this would be infrastructurally expensive but would rapidly bring about more peaceful populace.
I am against the idea of giving up your advantage of overwhelming firepower because your enemies choose to hide among civilians. If you make it clear from the start that civilians who harbour fighters are fair game there is absolutely no reason that anyone will harbour such fighters at direct risk to their lives and livelihoods.
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