Passage: The ongoing conflicts of post-invasion Iraq, the renewed Taliban insurgency in the 2001 war in Afghanistan, the Darfur conflict, the rebellion in the North of Uganda by the Lord's Resistance Army, and the Second Chechen War are fought almost entirely by irregular forces on one or both sides. The CIA's Special Activities Division  is the premiere United States unit for creating or combating irregular military forces. SAD paramilitary officers created and led successful units from the Hmong tribe during the Laotian Civil War in the 1960s and 1970s. They also organized and led the Mujaheddin as an irregular force against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan in the 1980s, as well as the Northern Alliance as an irregular insurgency force against the Taliban with US Army Special Forces during the war in Afghanistan in 2001 and organized and led the Kurdish Peshmerga with US Army Special Forces as an irregular counter-insurgency force against the Kurdish Sunni Islamist group Ansar al-Islam at the Iraq-Iran border and as an irregular force against Saddam Hussein during the war in Iraq in 2003.
How many years after the war in Afghanistan was the war in Iraq? What all conflicts were fought almost entirely by irregular forces? What all wars were fought almost entirely by irregular forces? What does SAD stand for? Who did the CIA's Special Activities Division create and led successful units from first, the Mujaheddin or the Hmong tribe? the Kurdish Peshmerga was led how many years before the irregular force against Saddam Hussein?