Iraq: Selected Outside Surveys/Reports

The Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction (Robb-Silberman Report), Report to the President of the United States, March 31, 2005

The Iraq Study Group Report, December 2006

Joseph Cirincione, Jessica Tuchman Mathews and George Perkovich, "Iraq: What Next?" Carnegie Endowment Report, 2003

"Winning the Peace in the Middle East: A Bipartisan Blueprint for Postwar U.S. Policy," The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 2003

Frederick Barton, Bathsheba N. Crocker, John J. Hamre, Johanna Mendelson-Forman and Robert C. Orr, "Iraq's Post-Conflict Reconstruction: A Field Review and Recommendations," Center for Strategic and International Studies, Council on Foreign Relations, UN Foundation, July 17, 2003

Center for Strategic and International Studies, reports on Iraq (over 100 reports by CSIS experts and programs, archived by year)

The Brookings Institution Saban Center for Middle East Policy, Iraq Index Archive, Tracking Reconstruction and Security in Post-Saddam Iraq, November 2003-July 2007

Joseph Cirincione, Jessica Tuchman Mathews and George Perkovich, with Alexis Orton, "WMD in Iraq: Evidence and Implications," Carnegie Endowment Report, January 2004

Kenneth M. Pollack, "After Saddam: Assessing the Reconstruction of Iraq," The Saban Center for Middle East Policy, Saban Center Analysis Paper 1, January 2004

Eric Peltz, Marc Robbins, Kenneth J. Girardini, Rick Eden, John Halliday and Jeffrey Angers, "Sustainment of Army Forces in Operation Iraqi Freedom: Major Findings and Recommendations," RAND Corporation, 2005

Andrew Rathmell, Olga Oliker, Terrence K. Kelly, David Brannan and Keith Crane, "Developing Iraq's Security Sector: The Coalition Provisional Authority's Experience," RAND Corporation, 2005

"Iraq: Setting the Record Straight," A Report of the Project for the New American Century, April 2005

Steven J. Davis, Kevin M. Murphy and Robert H. Topel, "War in Iraq Versus Containment," American Enterprise Institute, Papers and Studies, February 15, 2006

Kenneth M. Pollack, Iraq Policy Working Group, "A Switch in Time: A New Strategy for America in Iraq," The Saban Center for Middle East Policy, Saban Center Analysis 7, February 15, 2006

Stephen T. Hosmer, "Why the Iraqi Resistance to the Coalition Invasion Was So Weak," RAND Corporation, 2007

Todd C. Helmus, Christopher Paul and Russell W. Glenn, "Enlisting Madison Avenue: The Marketing Approach to Earning Popular Support in Theaters of Operation," RAND Corporation, 2007

Daniel L. Bynam and Kenneth M. Pollack, "Things Fall Apart: Containing the Spillover from an Iraqi Civil War," The Saban Center for Middle East Policy, Saban Center Analysis 11, January 2007

Steven Simon and Hasib J. Sabbagh, "After the Surge: The Case for Military Disengagement from Iraq," Council on Foreign Relations Press, February 2007

ABC News/USA Today/BBC/ARD poll, "Iraq: Where Things Stand," March 19, 2007

James Dobbins, Sarah Harting and Dalia Dassa Kaye, "Coping with Iran: Confrontation, Containment, or Engagement? A Conference Report," RAND Corporation, March 21, 2007

David Pollock, ed., "With Neighbors Like These: Iraq and the Arab States on Its Borders," The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Policy Focus 70, June 2007

Edward P. Joseph and Michael E. O'Hanlon, "The Case for Soft Partition in Iraq," The Saban Center for Middle East Policy, Saban Center Analysis 12, June 2007

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