page_title: List of coalition military operations of the Iraq War
section_title: 2007
hierarchical_section_title: List of coalition military operations of the Iraq War / 2007
context_page_description: This is a list of coalition military operations of the Iraq War. The list covers operations from 2003 until December 2011.
context_section_description: 2007 saw a rise in humanitarian and peacekeeping operations as well as a large "surge" in US forces designed to help stabilize the region.
  On 10 January 2007, President Bush announced changes in the administration's political and military strategy in the Iraq War during a television speech broadcast. The speech and underlying strategy had been crafted under the working title "The New Way Forward." In the address Bush stated "America will change our strategy to help the Iraqis carry out their campaign to put down sectarian violence and bring security to the people of Baghdad. This will require increasing American force levels. So I've committed more than 20,000 additional American troops to Iraq. The vast majority of them—five brigades—will be deployed to Baghdad."
  As part of this new strategy, 2007 saw several major military operations aimed at eliminating insurgent activities, increase support services such as medical facilities and utilities and the training of Iraqi citizens as police or military personnel.
  The largest of these new operations were Operations Law and Order, Phantom Thunder and Phantom Strike.
caption: Soldiers have a short meeting at an airfield in Baqubah before an air assault into an outlying village of the city, 18 June 2007
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