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Known as embedded reporting, the practice first emerged in Kosovo and Afghanistan, but saw its first large-scale implementation in Iraq—where roughly 600 reporters were embedded in coalition units...
Just as the U.N.’s failure to act decisively initially precluded its involvement in post-war Kosovo and Bosnia, the first phases of Iraqi reconstruction must be left to the Coalition partners who put their reputation on the line. The matter is not simply one of fairness, as Powell phrased it. It’s a matter of vision. Just as it was inconceivable to let a Milosevic-sympathethizer have a say in the original stages of Kosovo’s reconstruction, allowing French diplomats who tacitly reinforced an oppressive Iraqi regime to control the new Iraq...
...Iraqi government without exercising coercive control. If our European detractors are worried only because of their fear that the United States will not secure human rights and democracy in Iraq, then such a U.N. watchdog role should let them sleep well. And just as Bosnia and Kosovo are now home to U.N. administrators, there will someday be a place in Iraq for the U.N. (if the soon-to-debut government of Iraq approves it) when the political climate grows less shrill...
...other Administration since Eisenhower, this sort of issue was the special province of the President's National Security Adviser. "We found that giving a reconstruction program over to one government department simply didn't work," says James Dobbins, a former NSC staff member who worked on Haiti, Bosnia and Kosovo (and on Afghanistan, for the Bush Administration). "The Pentagon never wanted any part of peacekeeping or nation building, and it wouldn't cooperate when State tried to run the reconstruction programs. The orders had to come directly from the White House, from the President's foreign-policy coordinator, the National...
After his first assignment to Geibelstadt, Germany, Adamouski went on two deployments to Bosnia and one to Albania during the Kosovo conflict, after which he returned to Ft. Rutger for advanced training...