'After Training We Will Head For Iraq'

What about limiting collateral damage in such operations?
That was another important thing we learnt here. The training here includes operating in populated areas and how to minimise the use of firepower to take on only intended targets, thus limiting collateral damage. Including civilian considerations is definitely a priority area in this training. There are other critical components like media management, military civic action, human rights and intelligence collection and analysis that we're being trained in here. All these will help us conduct future operations more effectively by limiting casualties, minimising collateral damage and avoiding adverse publicity.

Would you say that the 25th Infantry Division, when deployed in Iraq next year, will conduct operations differently than what the US troops there are doing now?
I would say that the training we've undergone here and the lessons learnt from it would be deployed effectively by us. I will speak only for those of us who've trained here. We'll, of course, train our fellow officers and soldiers in our battalion and division who haven't come here on what we've learnt. But as I said, minimising collateral damage and winning the hearts and minds of the civilian population would be our focus areas.

Would the lessons and tactics you learnt here evolve into a standard operating procedure for US troops in anti-terror operations?
Definitely. These would eventually be incorporated in our anti-terror operations doctrines.