What was Nick Garpheldt's role in the Iraq war
Executive summary
Available search results contain no information about anyone named "Nick Garpheldt" or his role in the Iraq War; sources instead reference experts such as Richard Garfield and media about the Iraq War and the 2025 film Warfare [1] [2] [3]. Because the name "Nick Garpheldt" does not appear in the retrieved material, this report focuses on what the current sources do cover and what they do not: public-health researchers (Richard Garfield) who studied Iraq sanctions and journalists/filmmakers recounting Iraq War combat experiences — but nothing on a Nick Garpheldt [2] [1] [3].
1. No record of "Nick Garpheldt" in the provided reporting
A targeted review of the supplied search results finds zero references to a person called Nick Garpheldt, and therefore no documented role for that name in the Iraq War in these materials. The available sources discuss other figures and topics — notably Richard Garfield’s public-health research on Iraq and contemporary cultural works about Iraq War combat — but do not mention Nick Garpheldt at all [2] [1] [3].
2. Who appears in these sources: Richard Garfield and sanctions research
Several search results center on Richard Garfield, a public-health scholar who analyzed child mortality and the health effects of sanctions and conflict in Iraq. Garfield estimated large numbers of excess child deaths related to the Gulf War and subsequent sanctions and is cited as an expert on the humanitarian impact of economic measures against Iraq [2] [4] [1].
3. What Garfield’s work documents and why it’s relevant to Iraq War discussions
Garfield’s analyses quantify mortality changes among noncombatants and attribute much of the excess child mortality in the 1990s to international sanctions and the aftermath of the Gulf War; one synthesis mentions estimates of hundreds of thousands of excess under‑five deaths across the 1990s and early 2000s [4] [2]. His position is frequently invoked in debates about humanitarian consequences of war and sanctions [4].
4. Film and veteran testimony dominate the contemporary cultural record in these results
A 2025 wave of reporting about Warfare — a film co-created by Alex Garland and former Navy SEAL Ray Mendoza based on a 2006 Ramadi mission — appears in multiple sources. Those pieces emphasize that the movie draws on real SEAL experiences and focuses on combat realism; they do not, however, connect to any person named Nick Garpheldt [3] [5] [6].
5. Two possible explanations for the missing name — and how to verify further
Either the name is misspelled or conflated with another figure (for example Richard Garfield appears often in these searches), or the person exists but is not present in this dataset. The current sources do not mention a Nick Garpheldt; confirming any claim about his role in the Iraq War requires additional reporting or records not included here. Available sources do not mention Nick Garpheldt [2] [1] [3].
6. How to proceed to get a definitive answer
If you meant a different name (for example Richard Garfield, Richard Garfield’s work, or Ray Mendoza of Warfare), the supplied materials support clear statements about their roles: Garfield as a public-health analyst of sanctions-related mortality [2] [4]; Mendoza as an Iraq War veteran whose missions inspired a 2025 film [3] [5]. If you want me to look again for "Nick Garpheldt" with corrected spelling or to search other databases, say so and I will re-run the lookup. The current reporting set contains no citation or evidence for a Nick Garpheldt role in the Iraq War [2] [1] [3].