Wanted: A Post-War Watchdog for Nation-Building
08.02.2013 at 12:37pm
Wanted: A Post-War Watchdog for Nation-Building by Stuart W. Bowen, Jr., Defense One.
One definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.
Over the past nine years, my office, the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, or SIGIR, documented what works and what doesn’t when it comes to stabilization and reconstruction operations, known as SRO. Iraq was the largest SRO ever; now Afghanistan is. If we are to achieve better outcomes in future operations, we must learn lessons from both…
