| Description |
1 online resource (23 pages) : illustrations |
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RAND perspectives ; PE111 |
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Perspective (Rand Corporation) ; PE111.
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| Summary |
Much of the analyses that appeared with the tenth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq was understandably backward-looking, including often heated debates over who did what wrong and when. This paper takes a slightly different tack, surveying the overall impact of the Iraq War on U.S. national security structures by examining the major changes the war wrought in the intellectual and institutional underpinnings of U.S. security and defense policy. The authors assess the future implications of these changes and argue that, despite a decade of painful and often acrimonious debates in Washington about what went wrong, the United States is at best only modestly better prepared to fight a war like Iraq again. They begin with some basic data on the war and then focus on four key, interrelated issues: counterinsurgency operations, civilian state-making, security force assistance, and our capacity for understanding the specific needs of different kinds of interventions, allocating resources and adjusting expectations accordingly |
| Notes |
PE-111-OSD (2014) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 21-22) |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF page 1 (RAND, viewed June 11, 2014) |
| Subject |
Iraq War, 2003-2011.
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National security -- United States.
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Counterinsurgency.
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Nation-building.
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Military assistance, American.
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Intervention (International law) -- Government policy -- United States
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Armed Forces -- Operational readiness.
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Armed Forces -- Operations other than war.
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Counterinsurgency.
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Military assistance, American.
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Military policy.
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Nation-building.
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National security.
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United States -- Military policy.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140379
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United States -- Armed Forces -- Operations other than war
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United States -- Armed Forces -- Operational readiness.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139864
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| Subject |
Iraq.
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United States.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Oliker, Olga, author.
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Liepman, Andrew M., author
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Connable, Ben, author.
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Willcoxon, George, author.
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Young, William, author
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Rand Corporation, publisher.
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