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handle is hein.amenin/aeiaani0001 and id is 1 raw text is: PERATION FR-DOM XSTRATFGIC ASSESSMENT hI \did the United States go to war in Ira -aned what does it seek to accom- plish there? This is the question that veteran deeInse analyst and AEI resident fellow Thomas Dionnelly seeks to answer in his study of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Looking past the prewar debate in theIL\ Security Council and postwar recriminations over weapons of mas destruction, Donnelly argues that the Bush administration charted the correc srategy in Iraq, but failed to match Its military means to its strategic ends Donnelly traces the origins of the lirq \\a over the past quarter century to the collapsing political order in the Middle Fast and President Bush's fun- damental belief, following the Septembel 11 attacks, that America will not be safe until the Middle East is free. Drawing on firsthand research in postwar Iraq, Donnelly argues that military planning did not fully reflect the adminis- tration's policy, with the Pentagon's desire to fight a quick war ultimately undercutting its ability to fight a decisive war. The global war on terror is a marathon, Donnelly argues, but the United States has a military-indeed, an entire national security bureaucracy-built for sprints. The question now is whether America will transform itself for the long, hard fight ahead, or pursue a more limited victory Donnelly believes the latter is simply a euphemism for defeat. Thomas Donnelly is a resident fellow in defense and national security stud- ies at the American Enterprise Institute. He is also the author of OperationJust Cause: The Storming of Panama; Clash of Chariots: The Great Tank Battles; and Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources for a New Century MILITARY/FOREIGN POLKY $20.00 Au uwmerican Enterprise Institute ****0 * 5** 20 for Public Policy Research100 1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20036 111111 liii I 111111 Cover image @ Aef Hosson/Reuters Newmedio Inc./Corhis 978'30814419I I6

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