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practices that should be considered in planning contingency operations and responding to national emergencies; and (5) the establishment by the
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provides the first comprehensive account of the U.S. reconstruction effort in Iraq, chronicling the myriad challenges that confronted the rebuilding program, and concludes with thirteen lessons drawn from the reconstruction experience.
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