Iraq Study Group Report, p. 93Easy to say, harder to do, but the G-N reference is telling, as is the realism of accepting that Iraq opens the book (finally) but does not close it, no matter how ugly it gets.
RECOMMENDATION 75: For the longer term, the United States government needs to improve how its constituent agencies—Defense, State, Agency for International Development, Treasury, Justice, the intelligence community, and others— respond to a complex stability operation like that represented by this decade’s Iraq and Afghanistan wars and the previous decade’s operations in the Balkans. They need to train for, and conduct, joint operations across agency boundaries, following the Goldwater-Nichols model that has proved so successful in the U.S. armed services.
Thanks to an anonymous reader for sending this in.
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