Accession Number ADA559995
Title US Army in Kirkuk: Governance Operations on the Fault Lines of Iraqi Society, 2003-2009.
Publication Date Dec 2011
Media Count 130p
Personal Author P. W. Connors
Abstract The Combat Studies Institute presents The US Army in Kirkuk: GovernanceOperations on the Fault Lines of Iraqi Society, 2003-2009 by Dr. Pete Connors. This work chronicles the challenging task of bringing stability and representative government to the Iraqi city of Kirkuk after the fall of the Baathist regime. Although the plan for Operation IRAQI FREEDOM (OIF) required US forces to prepare to conduct stability operations at the end of combat operations, many commanders and their staffs rightfully focused on the offensive operations that were part of the initial invasion of Iraq. As a result many tactical units were not adequately manned or trained in civil- military lines of operation, such as governance, essential services, and the rule of law. Many commanders believed civilian teams from other US government agencies would assume responsibility for the new political order in postwar Iraq after the defeat of the Baathist regime. This assumption proved wrong and the responsibilities for creating new democratic governing bodies were in many cases given to tactical-level maneuver units. Despite the lack of preparation for what became known as Governance Operations, US Army units in the initial years of the campaign in Iraq were able to develop and implement ad hoc plans to install representative forms of government in the cities and provinces of Iraq with varying degrees of success. In the case of the city of Kirkuk, there was the added challenge of creating democratic governing bodies in the midst of serious ethnic turmoil. The smoldering hostilities were a constant source of friction that chronically threatened to bring down the representative forms of government created in the city. Dr. Connors study is a systematic recounting of how the US Army approached the challenge of creating democratic local forms of government. This work, however, is more than just a chronicle of the many units that deployed and operated in Kirkuk.
Keywords Army
Army operations
Community relations
Democracy
Ethnic groups
Government(Foreign)
History
Iraq
Iraqi war
Kirkuk(Iraq)
Military commanders
Military operations
Operation
Political science
Population
Postwar
Societies
Sources
Stability
Teams(Personnel)
Training
Urban areas
Warfare


 
Source Agency Non Paid ADAS
NTIS Subject Category 92 - Behavior & Society
74 - Military Sciences
74G - Military Operations, Strategy, & Tactics
Corporate Author Army Combined Arms Center, Fort Leavenworth, KS.
Document Type Technical report
Title Note Occasional paper 35.
NTIS Issue Number 1220
Contract Number N/A

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