Imagining the next occupation

Middle East Report

Volumn 39, Issue 249, 2008, Pages 8-11

  Brownlee, Jason ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOREIGN POLICY; PARTY POLITICS; POST-WAR; STATE BUILDING; VIOLENCE;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 57849154928     PISSN: 08992851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. Financial Times, March 29, 2005.
2. New York Times, October 23, 2005.
3. Marilyn Young, "Counterinsurgency, Now and Forever," in Lloyd Garner and Marilyn Young, eds., Iraq and the Lessons of Vietnam (New York: The New Press, 2007), pp. 223-224.
4. States News Service, October 8, 2008,
5. Department of the Army, Counterinsurgemy Field Manual (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007), p. 73.
6. William Caldwell and Steven Leonard, "Field Manual 3-07, Stability Operations: Upshifting the Engine of Change," Military Review (July-August 2008), p. 7.
7. Counterinsurgemy Field Manual, pp. 74-75.
8. Christopher Fisher, "The Illusion of Progress: CORDS and the Crisis of Modernization in South Vietnam, 1965-1968," Pacific Historical Review 75/1 (May 2006), pp. 37-41.
9. James Carter, Inventing Vietnam: The United States and State Building, 1954-1968 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008), pp. 216-218.
10. Noam Chomsky, The Backroom Boys (Suffolk England: Fontana, 1973), pp. 96-103.
11. A 2004 Defense Science Board report on "Transition to and from Hostilities" advocated greater emphasis on stability operations and evaluated the French and Soviets as successful in four out of nine areas in "post-conflict operations." Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics, Defense Science Board 2004 Summer Study on Transition: Supporting Papers (Washington, DC: 2005), p. 5.
12. On the first source of stability, see Nir Rosen, "The Myth of the Surge," Rolling Stone, March 6, 2008. On external migration, see International Crisis Group, Failed Reponsibilfly. Iraqi Refugees in Syria, Jordan and Lebanon (Amman/Baghdad/Beirut/Damascus/Brussels, July 2008).
13. Department of the Army, FM 31-23: Stability Operations - US Army Doctrine (Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office, 1967), p. 5.
14. See, for instance, Francis Fukuyama, "Nation-Building 101," The Atlantic (January/February 2004);
15. and Andrew Erdmann and Suzanne Nossel, Are We All Nation-Builders Now? (Muscatine, LA: Stanley Foundation, June 2007).
16. See the jeremiad of Charles Dunlap, Jr., "The Origins of the Military Coup of 2012," Parameters (Winter 1992/1993).