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Title

  • Revisions in need of revising : what went wrong in the Iraq war

Other Title

  • What went wrong in the Iraq war

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.

Names

  • Hendrickson, David C.
  • Tucker, Robert W.
  • Army War College (U.S.). Strategic Studies Institute

Created / Published

  • [Carlisle Barracks, PA] : Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, [2005]

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.

Headings

  • -  United States.--Department of Defense--Decision making
  • -  Iraq War, 2003-2011
  • -  Military planning--United States--Evaluation
  • -  United States--Foreign public opinion

Notes

  • -  "December 2005."
  • -  Includes bibliographical references (pages 29-36).
  • -  Description based on print version record; resource not viewed.

Medium

  • 1 electronic resource (vii, 36 pages)

Call Number/Physical Location

  • DS79.76

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2023692904

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Chicago citation style:

Hendrickson, David C, Robert W Tucker, and U.S.. Strategic Studies Institute Army War College. Revisions in need of revising: what went wrong in the Iraq war. [Carlisle Barracks, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, 2005] Pdf. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2023692904/.

APA citation style:

Hendrickson, D. C., Tucker, R. W. & Army War College, U. S. S. S. I. (2005) Revisions in need of revising: what went wrong in the Iraq war. [Carlisle Barracks, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2023692904/.

MLA citation style:

Hendrickson, David C, Robert W Tucker, and U.S.. Strategic Studies Institute Army War College. Revisions in need of revising: what went wrong in the Iraq war. [Carlisle Barracks, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, 2005] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2023692904/>.