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Title After Saddam : prewar planning and the occupation of Iraq / Nora Bensahel [and others]
Published Santa Monica, CA : Rand Arroyo Center, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (xxxvii, 273 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Rand Corporation monograph series
Rand Corporation monograph series.
Contents Military planning efforts -- Civilian planning efforts -- Task Force IV -- The Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance -- Humanitarian planning -- Combat operations during Phase IV -- The Coalition Provisional Authority -- Building new Iraqi security forces -- Governance and political reconstruction -- Economic policy -- Essential services and infrastructure -- Assessing postwar efforts
Summary This monograph begins by examining prewar planning efforts or postwar Iraq, in order to establish what U.S. policymakers expected the postwar situation to look like and what their plans were for reconstruction. The monograph then examines the role of U.S. military forces after major combat officially ended on May 1, 2003; the analysis covers this period through the end of June 2004. Finally, the monograph examines civilian efforts at reconstruction after major combat ended, focusing on the activities of the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) and its efforts to rebuilding structures of governance, security forces, economic policy, and essential services prior to June 28, 2004, the day that the CPA dissolved and transferred authority to the Interim Iraqi Government. The authors conclude that the U.S. government was unprepared for the challenges of postwar Iraq for three reasons: a failure to challenge fundamental assumptions about postwar Iraq; ineffective interagency coordination; and the failure to assign responsibility and resources for providing security in the immediate aftermath of major combat operations
Notes "Prepared for the United States Army."
"MG-642-A"--Page 4 of cover
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-273)
Notes Print version record
In Books at JSTOR: Open Access JSTOR
Subject Coalition Provisional Authority.
SUBJECT Coalition Provisional Authority fast
Subject Iraq War, 2003-2011.
Military planning -- United States
Postwar reconstruction -- Iraq
Insurgency -- Iraq
National security -- Iraq
HISTORY -- Military.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Military Science.
Insurgency
Military planning
National security
Postwar reconstruction
peacebuilding -- Iraq.
Iraq
United States
USA -- military strategy.
Form Electronic book
Author Bensahel, Nora, 1971-
United States. Army
ISBN 9780833046383
0833046381
9781282033238
1282033239