Three New Studies

1– From RAND Cor­po­ra­tion

The study argues that health can have an inde­pen­dent impact on broader polit­i­cal, eco­nomic, and secu­rity objec­tives dur­ing nation-building operations.

Secur­ing Health: Lessons from Nation-Building Mis­sions (PDF)

2– From Cen­ter for Strate­gic and Inter­na­tional Stud­ies.

Wartime is scarcely the eas­i­est time for demand­ing self crit­i­cism, but the recent exchanges between the Sec­re­tary of State and Sec­re­tary of Defense over the mis­takes the US did or did not make in Iraq have high­lighted the fact that the US must both admit its mis­takes and learn from them.

Amer­i­can Strate­gic, Tac­ti­cal, and Other Mis­takes in Iraq: A Litany of Errors. (PDF)

3– From “Code Pink”

Some U.S. mil­i­tary per­son­nel have com­mit­ted crimes of sex­ual abuse and phys­i­cal assault against women.

IRAQI WOMEN UNDER SIEGE. (PDF)