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...making sure you’ve got a well-thought-through plan. One of the lessons that has to come out of Iraq and that goes back to other interventions in Somalia, Bosnia, Afghanistan, even back to Haiti, is that simply having the military power to take out the command and control of the enemy is really only step one. What do you really do in terms of getting the power back on, getting the water back on, reestablishing civil authority...
...chief of U.S. Central Command, General Franks, now retired, oversaw the invasion of Iraq...
...June, Gompert says, neither Allawi nor the U.S made the reintegration program a priority. Job training programs run by Allawi's Labor Ministry were cancelled over personal feuds and pension programs and other aspects of the program of DDR - "demilitarization, demobilization and reintegration" - were bounced around from one command to another...
...Making matters worse has been the fact that the police - unlike the Iraqi Army, which is still under U.S. command and supervision - were practically ignored almost from the beginning of the occupation, says Burke. And what supervision the National Police did get came from U.S. military intelligence officers, not civilian police advisors...
...American efforts to try and help stem the deadly sectarianism will likely do little good - and in some respects may well exacerbate the problem. Instead of increasing the number of civilian advisors to Iraq's local police forces, a spokeswoman for the Multinational Security Transition Command-Iraq (MNSTC-I) said more U.S. military police and military personnel will be assigned to train them. The Special Police Transition Teams (SPTTs) are the model that will be followed. "The SPTTs have been very successful in their efforts," the spokeswoman said. No change is planned for the oversight program on the National Police...