Occupation and Governance

<p>The United States and many other countries are engaged in the Global War on Terror using all the elements of their national powers. Much of the diplomatic economic and perhaps some of the military actions take place behind the scenes and often through proxies. Even so given historical precedent and the plethora of rogue and failing states in existence today future large-scale military intervention in some areas is virtually inevitable. A multinational military coalition is presently struggling to stabilize Iraq two years after initial occupation and governance operations met with limited success. This modern operation stands in sharp contrast to the notably successful occupations of Germany and Japan more that half a century ago. If these types of operations are inevitable but the US military has lost some proficiency in their execution it is incumbent upon professional soldiers to discover and remedy the problems. The purpose of this monograph is to identify the effects required to execute a successful stability and reconstruction operation following a kinetic combat operation determine the shortcomings in current doctrine's ability to plan for those effects and make the recommended changes to remedy the problem. Historical case studies on the occupations of Germany and Japan as well as the more recent operations in Iraq provide insight into the requirements for the success of the occupation forces. These requirements juxtaposed with a survey of both past and present occupation and governance doctrine provide a basis to analyze the effectiveness of the current doctrine. This monograph concludes that although the national goals and objectives are generally accomplished in the occupation and reconstruction phase of an operation current doctrine encourages planning from the perspective that the kinetic combat phase is decisive. Additionally the specific doctrine dealing with occupation and military governance is fragmented and diluted in a number of the Jo</p><p>This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore you will see the original copyright references library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world) and other notations in the work.</p><p>This work is in the public domain in the United States of America and possibly other nations. Within the United States you may freely copy and distribute this work as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.</p><p>As a reproduction of a historical artifact this work may contain missing or blurred pages poor pictures errant marks etc. Scholars believe and we concur that this work is important enough to be preserved reproduced and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.</p>