Beyond Counterinsurgency
Beyond Counterinsurgency by Isaiah Wilson III, The American Interest. (Excerpt provided at TAI, full article requires subscription)
…Through the writings of others, I supplied one of the first “official” accounts of the war’s progress, and possibly the first acknowledgement of the lack of a workable operational plan for winning the peace – what at the time was referred to as Phase-IV (stability and reconstruction) operations in Iraq…