'A cursory glance at the foreign policy section in your local bookstore would reveal many volumes of output and analyses generated over the past few years by the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq and its aftermath.... However, until 2009, no one had produced a comprehensive analytical study of the Coalition Provisional Authority\'s (CPA\'s) occupation of Iraq, when it operated as the country\'s de jure and de facto government from early May 2003 to the end of June 2004. Ambassador James Dobbins, the leading authority on overseas contingencies, and his coauthors have filled this reportorial gap with this landmark work, which will stand as an authoritative history of the CPA for years to come.Prism 1, No. 2, March 2010Occupying Iraq does not whitewash the [Coalition Provisional Authority\'s] (CPA) problems or its policies. Rather, it sheds light and provides insider comment on its more controversial actions--the disbanding of the Iraqi army and de-Baathification, for example. Occupying Iraq is a serious work and a must-read that pushes discussion of the CPA forward.
Middle East Quarterly, Summer 2010Occupying Iraq does not whitewash the [Coalition Provisional Authority\'s] (CPA) problems or its policies. Rather, it sheds light and provides insider comment on its more controversial actions--the disbanding of the Iraqi army and de-Baathification, for example. Occupying Iraq is a serious work and a must-read that pushes discussion of the CPA forward.
Middle East Quarterly, Summer 2010' - Source: Powell's Books
