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The article reports that Great Britain's military is assembling a collaborative warfare force for its operations in Afghanistan and elsewhere in the world that parallels the latest technology effort of the U.S. in Iraq. The collaborative warfare is allowing the U.S. military and intelligence agencies to locate, target, and kill key individuals in groups such as Al Qaeda in Iraq, the Sunni insurgency, and renegade Shia militias.

Details the air raids conducted by the United States (US) and Great Britain against Iraq on December 1998. Reaction of Iraq to the raids; Response of the US to the provocations of Iraq; Tests with penetrator warheads conducted by the US Air Force; Success of the coordination between the Air Force and the Navy.

The Great Britain is working toward setting up a joint Predator unmanned aerial vehicle unit with the U.S. British personnel are soon to begin training in using the General Atomics Predator UAV, with the possibility they will then be deployed to form a U.K.-U.S. operations unit in Iraq. Predator unit stationed in the British-controlled area around Basra, at a base in Kuwait or in Qatar where it would be close to the Combined Air Operations Center (CAOC). Both manned and unmanned aircraft have been enlisted in the search, and the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has been testing, in Iraq, both ground-mounted electronic jamming systems and a coherent change detection system for airborne radar.