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Revisions in need of revising : what went wrong in the Iraq War / David C. Hendrickson, Robert W. Tucker.
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- Author/Creator:
- Hendrickson, David C.
- Series:
- Strategic Studies Institute
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Department of Defense--Decision making.
- United States.
- United States. Department of Defense.
- Iraq War, 2003-2011.
- Iraq--Politics and government--2003-.
- Iraq.
- United States--Armed Forces--Iraq.
- Armed Forces.
- Decision making.
- Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vii, 36 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Carlisle, PA : Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, [2005]
- Summary:
- Though critics have made a number of telling points against the Bush administration's conduct of the Iraq war, the most serious problems facing Iraq and its American occupiers--criminal anarchy and lawlessness, a raging insurgency and a society divided into rival and antagonistic groups--were virtually inevitable consequences that flowed from the act of war itself. Military and civilian planners were culpable in failing to plan for certain tasks, but the most serious problems had no good solution. Even so, there are lessons to be learned. These include the danger that the imperatives of "force protection" may sacrifice the broader political mission of U.S. forces and the need for skepticism over the capacity of outsiders to develop the skill and expertise required to reconstruct decapitated states
- Contents:
- Obstacles to a successful reconstruction
- The numbers game
- Avoiding anarchy
- The emergence of the insurgency
- Abolishing the Iraqi army and proscribing the Ba'athists
- Lessons.
- Notes:
- "December 2005."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 29-36).
- Print version record.
- Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
- Other Format:
- Hendrickson, David C. Revisions in need of revising : what went wrong in the Iraq War (Original)
- OCLC:
- 63146060
- Access Restriction:
- Use copy Restrictions unspecified
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