This is a history of the Iraq reconstruction experience compiled by the Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, led by Stuart W. Bowen Jr., a Republican lawyer who regularly travels to Iraq and has a staff of engineers and auditors based here. Copies of several drafts of the history were provided to reporters at The New York Times and ProPublica.

The manuscript is based on approximately 500 new interviews, as well as more than 600 audits, inspections and investigations on which Mr. Bowenâs office has reported over the years. Laid out for the first time in a connected history, the material forms the basis for broad judgments on the rebuilding program.

PART I: PLANNING TO REBUILD IRAQ

1. Planning Begins
2. The Agencies Engage
3. The Department of Defense Takes Charge
4. ORHA Stages in Kuwait
5. ORHA in Baghdad

PART II: THE COALITION PROVISIONAL AUTHORITY LEADS RECONSTRUCTION

6. The Sudden Advent of the CPA
7. CPA’s Resource Shortfalls
8. Treasury’s Economic Triage
9. Bremer’s Grand Reconstruction Vision
10. Contracting Billions in Iraq Reconstruction
11. Restoring Iraq’s Capacity to Govern
12. Reconstructing Iraq’s Security Forces
13. Rebuilding Iraq’s Oil Sector
14. Rebuilding Iraq’s Electricity Sector
15. Reconstruction in Transition

PART III: THE U.S. EMBASSY TAKES CHARGE

16. Negroponte’s Reprogrammings
17. Contingency Contracting and Program Management
18. Building in a War Zone
19. Strengthening Iraq’s Security Forces for Counterinsurgency
20. Building Democracy: Elections, the Rule of Law, and Anticorruption
21. Oversight Takes Hold in Iraq Reconstruction

PART IV: OVERCOMING ROADBLOCKS TO RECONSTRUCTION

22. Khalilzad’s Adaptations
23. Reconstruction Moves Local
24. The Primacy of Sustainability and Capacity Development Programs
25. Reconstruction Amid Sectarian Violence
26. The Surge


PART V: LESSONS LEARNED

27. Hard Lessons
28. Afterword: The U.S. Approach to Reforming Contingency Relief and Reconstruction
Operations

Acronyms

Dramatis Personae

ANNEXES

I. The Genesis and Methodology of Hard Lessons
II. Oversight of Reconstruction Programs and Expenditures

APPENDIX: Key Documents
A. UNSCR 1483
B. NSPD 36
C. NSPD 44
D. CPA Regulation 1
E. CPA Order 1
F. CPA Order 2

plus-circle Add Review

comment

Reviews