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From war-fighting to nation-building.(INSIDER REPORT)
Department of Defense Directive 3000.5, issued by Deputy Secretary of Defense Gordon England on November 28, dramatically redefines the role of the U.S. military by defining "stability operations"--that is, peacekeeping and nation-building--as "a core U.S. Military mission ... [that] shall be given priority comparable to combat operations."
Not surprisingly, the Pentagon directive tracks the recommendations found in the book In the Wake of War: Improving U.S. Post-Conflict Capabilities, the report of a Council on Foreign Relations task force co-chaired by former National Security Advisers Samuel R. Berger (from the Clinton administration) and Brent Scowcroft (of the Bush I administration).
Directive 3000.5 "amounts to an admission that the White House and the Pentagon botched the planning for the war in Iraq--that their dismissal of 'nation-building' as a worthy concept and their subsequent failure to plan for 'stability operations' in Iraq (the official term for securing order and building stable institutions after an armed conflict) account, in large measure, for the mess we're in now," adds Slate's Fred Kaplan, a veteran military affairs reporter.
But the implications go far beyond the Bush administration admitting, and seeking to rectify, the inadequacies of its approach to the Iraq War. "To put 'stability operations' and 'combat operations' on an equal footing--not just in a memorandum but for ...
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