Effectiveness of stability operations assessed

An Army War College Strategy Research paper discusses stability operations in post-invasion Iraq.  Col. Paul F. Dicker USAR, writes in "Effectiveness of Stability Operations During the Initial Implementation of the Transition Phase for Operation Iraqi Freedom," studies how the military, State Department, US Agency for International Development (USAID) and others fared in trying to bring order and recovery to the civilian population of Iraq. Publication date: July 2004.