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The war in Iraq is a divisive issue in the United States, and historians and pundits will spend decades the conflict's causes, conduct, and consequences. Iraq Uncensored, an initiative of the bipartisan American Security Project, is neither pro-war nor antiwar, but an effort to begin to develop collective wisdom from our experience. Cutting across gender, generational, and party lines, ASP engaged leading figures form across American society to take a fresh look at the war in Iraq and offer unique perspectives and lessons for all of us to consider about the use of American power in all its forms. With thought-provoking contributions from more than two-dozen military and congressional leaders, members of the media, academics, religious thinkers, and many others, Iraq Uncensored begins an open dialogue about who we are as a people and how we can bets achieve our security.
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Table of contents
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Part One: The Coming of the War
- A Very Bad Idea from the Start
- Real Faith in the Public Square
- Part Two: The Conduct of the War
- Too Little, Too Late: Societal Transformation on a Shoestring Is No Strategy
- Iraq War Planners Ignored Powerful Historic Lessons
- Reaping an Uncertain Result: American Media and the Iraq War
- A Responsibility to Learn
- Rediscovering the Real Lessons of Vietnam
- How We Leave Matters
- The Lessons the World Has Learned
- Part Three: The War and Instruments of National Power
- It Takes a Country to Fight a War
- Rebalancing Our National Power
- America Needs a New Agency to Help Failed States
- Debunking the Conventional Wisdom on Iraq
- Beware of Dismantling States
- Part Four: The Department of Defense at War
- The Business of Defense Does Matter
- The Undisciplined Pentagon Budget
- Broken Contract: The Limits of the All-Volunteer Army
- One Team, One Fight
- Civil-Military Relations after Iraq
- Part Five: Conclusions
- And to the Republic for Which it Stands
- No More Iraqs
- Iraq: Lessons Learned
- Contributors