Border Security White Papers
The United States, Europe, and the Wider Middle East
Overview Given the dramatic nature of the ongoing violence in Iraq and the vast disparity between prewar American expectations and the reality of the occupation, it is hardly surprising that the insurgency has preoccupied policymakers, journalists, and analysts, including the participants at the conference. But for all this attention, the insurgency remains largely opaque. The United States and its coalition partners entered Iraq in March 2003 with little or no human intelligence and failed to develop reliable and productive human sources either during the major combat phase of operations or afterwards during the occupation.
| Publisher | RAND | File Format | PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5 |
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| Date Published | December 2004 | Downloads | 19 |
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