EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AGAIN Task Force Phantom in the Iraq War.

The article reports on the development of long-range surveillance (LRS) doctrine in military in Iraq, which is designed to inherit the army's responsibility for ground surveillance in combat. It reveals that LRS companies have compiled a record of proven achievements in the country, which makes them a natural anchor of the army's new battlefield surveillance brigades. It also notes that LRS companies play an operational intelligence-collection in the army.