Armed Humanitarians (49 page)

19
Nina Serafino, “Peacekeeping and Related Stability Operations: Issues of U.S. Military Involvement,” Congressional Research Service report, July 13, 2006, www.history.navy.mil/library/online/peacekeep_stab%20ops.htm#evolution.

20
Michael Siegl, “Clarity and Culture in Stability Operations.”
Military Review
87, no. 6, November–December 2007.

Part I: Winning the War, Losing the Peace

1. Absolute Beginners

1
Patrick Cockburn, “Cluster Bombs over Charicar,”
The Independent
, October 5, 2001.

2
For photos of the Salang Pass, see the Web site for former students and teachers of the American International School of Kabul, www.aisk.org/aisk/return2kabul200501.php.

3
Linette Albert, “Afghanistan: A Perspective,” in Louis Dupree and Linette Albert, eds.,
Afghanistan in the 1970s
(New York: Praeger, 1974), p. 254.

4
Ibid.

5
U.S. Government Accounting Office, “Contingency Operations: Army Should Do More to Control Contract Cost in the Balkans,” report to the U.S. Senate, September 2000.

6
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, factsheet on LOGCAP I, “Transatlantic Program Center's Involvement in the First Contract Awarded for the Logistics Civil Augmentation Program (1991–1997),” www.tac.usace.army.mil/Organization/lcap.html.

7
Dana Priest,
The Mission: Waging War and Keeping Peace with America's Military
(New York: Norton, 2003), p. 387.

8
James Dao, “G.I.'s Fight Afghan Devastation with Plaster and Nails,”
New York Times
, June 24, 2002.

9
Sandra Erwin, “Civil Affairs,”
National Defense
, May 2005.

10
Sean Naylor, “Demand Skyrocketing for Active-Duty Civil Affairs Brigade,”
Defense News
, October 5, 2001.

11
Chemonics, “Helping Rebuild Lives in Afghanistan,” press release, www.chemonics.com/projects/default.asp?content_id={17C6D697-B36B-4B95-8A3F-424816235E18}.

12
Ken Dilanian, “Short-Staffed USAID Tries to Keep Pace,”
USA Today
, February 1, 2009.

13
Ruben Berrios,
Contracting for Development: The Role of For-Profit Development Contractors in U.S. Foreign Development Assistance
(Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2000), pp. 1–2.

14
Matt Steinglass, “The Pitfalls of Pacification,” GlobalPost.com, March 27, 2009, www.globalpost.com/dispatch/vietnam/090327/the-pitfalls-pacification?page=0,2.

15
Berrios,
Contracting for Development
, pp. 7–8.

16
For a list of USAID implementation partners in Ukraine, see http://ukraine.usaid.gov/link.shtml.

17
Matt Bivens, “Aboard the Gravy Train: In Kazakhstan, the Farce That Is U.S. Foreign Aid,”
Harper's
, August 1997.

18
Ibid.

19
Janine Wedel, “The Harvard Boys Do Russia,”
The Nation
, June 1, 1998.

20
Zachary Seward, “Harvard to Pay $26.5 Million in HIID Settlement,”
Harvard Crimson
, July 29, 2005.

21
Joel Hafvenstein,
Opium Season: A Year on the Afghan Frontier
(Guilford, Conn.: Lyons Press, 2007), p. 61.

22
Gary Berntsen and Ralph Pezzullo,
Jawbreaker: The Attack on Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda: A Personal Account by the CIA's Field Commander
(New York: Crown, 2005), pp. 194–95.

23
Luke Harding and Matthew Engel, “U.S. Bomb Blunder Kills 30 at Afghan Wedding,”
Guardian
, July 2, 2002.

24
Philip Smucker, “Liabilities of Using Afghan Informants,”
Christian Science Monitor
, December 21, 2001.

25
“Deputy Secretary Wolfowitz Town Hall Meeting at Bagram Air Base,” July 15, 2002, Department of Defense news transcript.

2. The PowerPoint Warrior

1
Donald Rumsfeld, “DOD Acquisition and Logistics Excellence Week Kickoff—Bureaucracy to Battlefield,” remarks delivered at the Pentagon, September 10, 2001, www.defense.gov/speeches/speech.aspx?speechid=430.

2
Arthur Cebrowski and John Garstka, “Network-Centric Warfare: Its Origin and Future,”
Proceedings
, January 1998.

3
Thomas Barnett, “The Seven Deadly Sins of Network-Centric Warfare,”
Proceedings
, January 1999.

4
Charles Krulak, “The Strategic Corporal: Leadership in the Three Block War,”
Marines Magazine
, January 1999.

5
Thomas Barnett,
The Pentagon's New Map: War and Peace in the Twenty-first Century
(New York: Berkley, 2005), p. 180.

6
Ibid., p. 181.

7
George Gedda, “Bush Administration Speeds Up Help to Colombian Military,” Associated Press, February 22, 2002.

8
Paul Quinn-Judge, “Inside al-Qaeda's Georgia Refuge,”
Time
, October 19, 2002.

9
Thomas P. M. Barnett, “The Pentagon's New Map: It Explains Why We're Going to War, and Why We'll Keep Going to War,”
Esquire
, March 2003.

3. “Beat 'em Up and Go Home”

1
Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics, “Report of the Defense Science Board Task Force on Patriot System Performance,” January 2005, www.acq.osd.mil/dsb/reports/ADA435837.pdf.

2
“Deputy Secretary Wolfowitz Interview with Sam Tannenhaus [
sic
],
Vanity Fair
,” May 9, 2003, Department of Defense news transcript.

3
Ryan Chilcote, “Commander Shows Restraint, Prevents Unnecessary Violence,” CNN.com, http://edition.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2003/iraq/heroes/chrishughes.html.

4
Christopher Hughes,
War on Two Fronts: An Infantry Commander's War in Iraq and the Pentagon
(Drexel Hill, Pa.: Casemate, 2007), pp. 106–11.

5
Jim Garamone, “U.S. Army Trains Free Iraqi Forces in Hungary,” American Forces Press Service, February 23, 2003, www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=29394.

6
Linda Robinson and Kevin Whitelaw, “Deploying the ‘Free Iraqi Forces': What Role for the Arriving Anti-Saddam Iraqi Fighters?”
U.S. News & World Report
, April 7, 2003.

7
Christopher Griffin, “Revenge of the Staff Weenie: Mining the Military Bureaucracy for Nuggets of Humor,”
Armed Forces Journal
, October 2006, www.armedforcesjournal.com/2006/10/2098845.

8
Jim Dwyer, “American Soldiers, at the Behest of an Iraqi Officer, Topple a Hussein Statue,”
New York Times
, April 4, 2003.

9
Nathaniel Fick,
One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer
(New York: Mariner Books, 2006), pp. 237–39.

10
Ibid.

11
Fick,
One Bullet Away
, pp. 303–4.

12
U.S. Department of Defense, “Pre-war Planning for Post-war Iraq,” at Department of Defense Air University Web site, “Lessons Learned,” www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/dod/postwar_iraq.htm.

13
“CONPLAN AURORA (releasable) 06-260,” CENTCOM Information Portal, Case H06-260, http://www2.centcom.mil/sites/foia/rr/default.aspx.

14
Kurt Schork, “Mission-Minded Dallas Man Confronts Disasters Hurting Third World's Poor,”
Dallas Morning News
, July 1991.

15
Donald Wright and Colonel Timothy Reese with the Contemporary Operations Study Team,
On Point II: Transition to the New Campaign—The United States Army in Operation Iraqi Freedom, May 2003—January 2005
(Fort Leavenworth, Kans.: Combat Studies Institute Press, U.S. Army Combined Arms Center, 2008), p. 150.

16
John Guardiano, “ ‘Bush Good, Saddam Bad!': A Marine Reports from Iraq, Where Things Are Far Better Than the Media Let On,”
Wall Street Journal
, August 19, 2003.

17
Peter Ford and Seth Stern, “Humanitarian Aid to Iraq Proves One of War's Biggest Obstacles,”
Christian Science Monitor
, March 28, 2003.

18
Nick Cater, “Oxfam to Refuse Government Iraq Aid,”
Guardian
, March 4, 2003.

19
Jack Epstein, “Charities at Odds with Pentagon,”
San Francisco Chronicle
, June 14, 2003.

20
See “USAID Press Releases,” April 2 and April 11, 2003, www.usaid.gov/press/releases/2003.

21
Andrew Natsios, “Agency Takes Right Approach,”
USA Today
, March 31, 2003.

22
Peter Mansoor,
Baghdad at Sunrise: A Brigade Commander's War in Iraq
(New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008), pp. 53–54.

23
Ibid., p. 27.

24
Jim Krane, “GOP Operatives Lead at Iraq Press Office,” Associated Press, April 4, 2004.

25
Ariana Eunjung Cha, “In Iraq, the Job Opportunity of a Lifetime,”
Washington Post
, May 23, 2004.

26
Ray LeMoine and Jeff Neumann with Donovan Webster,
Babylon by Bus
(New York: Penguin, 2006), p. 44.

27
Ibid., p. 76.

28
Colonel Lloyd Sammons, interview by Larry Plotkin, of the United States Institute of Peace Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Iraq Experience Project, October 1, 2004, transcript at www.usip.org/files/file/resources/collections/histories/iraq/sammons.pdf.

4. The Other War

1
Carlotta Gall, “The Reach of War: U.S. Woman and Girl, 12, Die in Attack by Afghan Bomber,”
New York Times
, October 24, 2004.

2
Borhan Younus, “The Death of a Little Street-Seller,” Pajhwok Afghan News, November 27, 2004.

3
Safia Milad, “Kabul Suicide Bomber Revealed,” Pajhwok Afghan News, November 8, 2004.

4
Casey Vinall, “Joe Collins: Career Officer, Deputy Assistant Defense Secretary,” American Forces Press Service, June 23, 2003, www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=28841.

5
“Deputy Assistant Secretary Collins Media Roundtable on Afghanistan,” December 19, 2002, U.S. Department of Defense, news transcript, www.defenselink.mil/transcripts/transcript.aspx?transcriptid=2942.

6
“Britain's Armed Forces: Losing Their Way?”
Economist
, January 29, 2009.

7
Carlotta Gall, “Serbs on Edge After Rally by Albanians in a Kosovo City,”
New York Times
, February 23, 2000.

8
J. Alexander Thier, “Afghanistan,” in William Durch, ed.,
Twenty-First-Century Peace Operations
(Washington, D.C.: U.S. Institute of Peace Press, 2006), p. 495.

9
Barbara Stapleton, “The Provincial Reconstruction Team Plan in Afghanistan: A New Direction?,” paper presented at the symposium State Reconstruction and International Engagement in Afghanistan, Center for Development Research (ZEF), Bonn, May 30–June 1, 2003, www.ag-afghanistan.de/arg/arp/stapleton.pdf.

10
“Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Joseph Collins Media Roundtable on Afghanistan,” December 19, 2002, Department of Defense transcript, http://www.defense.gov/transcripts/transcript.aspx?transcriptid=2942.

11
“Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Joseph Collins Media Roundtable on Afghanistan.”

12
Nicolaus Mills,
Winning the Peace: The Marshall Plan and America's Coming of Age as a Superpower
(New York: John Wiley, 2008), p. 184.

13
Ibid., p. xi.

14
Marc Kaufman, “Afghanistan Still Groping for Order,”
Washington Post
, April 15, 2003.

15
“Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Joseph Collins Media Roundtable on Afghanistan.”

16
Jane Barry with Anna Jefferys, “A Bridge Too Far: Aid Agencies and the Military in Humanitarian Response,” Humanitarian Practice Network paper, January 2002, http://reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900sid/LGEL-5FKHH5/$file/odi-bridge-jan02.pdf?openelement.

17
Carlotta Gall, “A Nation at War: Aid Workers; In Afghanistan, Helping Can Be Deadly,”
New York Times
, April 5, 2003.

18
Agency Coordinating Body for Afghan Relief, “NGOs Alarmed by Lack of Media Coverage Following Execution of ICRC Staff Member,” press release, March 31, 2003, www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/ACOS-64D2SU?OpenDocument.

19
Sarah Chayes,
The Punishment of Virtue: Inside Afghanistan After the Taliban
(New York: Penguin Press, 2006), p. 236.