DoEE approaches

ARTICLE: Report calls for unity on postwar rebuilding: The State and Defense departments should be forced to join forces in the future to avoid a repeat of Iraq, the study says, By Julian E. Barnes, LA Times, March 22, 2007

No surprise. The IG looking at Iraq recommends a "unity of command" on future postwar efforts.

The movement toward the Department of Everything Else continues ...

Thanks to John Mooney and Tyler Durden for sending this.

Comments

[Mark in Texas]

Problem is, what if State becomes the senior partner? As you point out in a previous post, State Department officials are laboring with Stakhanovite dedication to turn everything they touch into failure.

[Ben Landy]

Yes, it seems that Condi and team have been moving towards this amorphous Dept of Everything Else for some time. Isn't it called State? And isn't this DEE junior partner by definition under nearly all "joined forces" scenarios?

True "unity of command" will only work if State develops a real implementing culture/capability. And the budget to boot. But that's not likely to happen, especially with USAID fraying at the seams. A $100 million contingency fund hardly buys a day in Iraq.