A Gentle Occupation : Dutch Military Operations in Iraq, 2003-2005 /
This book analyses the way Dutch forces conducted military stabilization operations in the aftermath of the 2003 U.S.-led invasion in Iraq. It looks at why, in contrast to most allied troops elsewhere in Iraq, Dutch forces in Al Muthanna province met with little resistance and left Iraq self-confide...
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[Leiden] :
Leiden University Press,
[2014]
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Table of Contents:
- Mixed feelings: Dutch politics and Iraq
- Iraq as an international threat
- Inspections and confrontations
- Military intervention?
- Renewed inspections
- War in Iraq
- The Netherlands: political rather than military support
- Into the desert
- Party to the conflict
- The Americans hand over command
- The area of operations
- Boots on the ground
- Outside the wire
- The proconsul of Al Muthanna
- Crime fighting
- Targeting operations
- Detention and interrogation
- The limits of the mandate
- Separation of powers?
- De facto occupation
- Uprising in Al Khidr
- The 'Al Muthanna model'
- Visitors from The Hague
- Parties and militias
- Mounting threats
- Change of command and mission extension
- Accelerated transfer of sovereignty
- The Al Muthanna model as an exit strategy
- A disorderly bunch
- Security Sector Reform
- The transition plan
- Troops in contact
- Knock Talk Search
- ssR: the interim score
- Operation Swatter
- Armed opposition: the Mandi Army
- Province of peace?
- Incidents and provocations
- The power struggle at its peak
- The second uprising
- Ambush in Ar Rumaythah
- Ceasefire
- Complex crisis response operations
- The faltering 'project machine'
- Civil-Military Cooperation in theory
- Civil-Military Cooperation in practice
- "Spend the money!"
- The key role of reconstruction funds
- Two million euros for the 'Beggar's Army'
- Security assistance and reform
- The fifth contingent
- The run-up to elections
- A carnival-like atmosphere
- Reconstruction or force protection?
- A stubborn minister
- Game over
- 'Dutch approach'
- Ar Rumaythah as a litmus test
- Critical allies
- British self-criticism and exit
- Al Muthanna after the departure of the Dutch
- The us in Iraq, 2003-2011
- The 'Dutch touch'
- A gentle occupation.
