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" Strategy, Implementation, and State-Building: "
Baxter, Charles Allen
Shoup, Brian D.
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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1104463
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TLpq2234295357
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Baxter, Charles Allen
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Shoup, Brian D.
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Strategy, Implementation, and State-Building:\ Baxter, Charles AllenShoup, Brian D.
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Mississippi State University
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2019
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2019
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M.A.
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58
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| Abstract
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In this thesis I argue that US Military and Civilian leadership in Iraq, while both well-trained and well-intentioned, implemented a failed strategy that sought to fill institutional gaps within various national and sub-national governmental entities. This strategy provided short-term gains by increasing the capacity and capability of Iraq’s government to deliver public goods and services to its citizens thereby improving government legitimacy. Yet, in the long-term, a largely decentralized approach to development, a maladaptive transition plan, and an illusory estimate of the capacity of the security apparatus within Iraq proved detrimental to the broader US strategic objectives and state-building efforts in Iraq.
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Political science
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