An Autopsy of the Iraq Debacle: Policy Failure or Bridge Too Far?

"An Autopsy of the Iraq Debacle: Policy Failure or Bridge Too Far?"


Security Studies, 17:4, 599-643, October 2008

This article examines whether the outbreak of an insurgency after the U.S. invasion of Iraq was an avoidable policy failure or whether the structural conditions surrounding the occupation made such an outbreak inevitable.