"Too often those making the decisions for war assume that, somehow, victory will magically sort out all problems. In 1998 the American military spent a lot of time developing plans to defeat Saddam Hussein and testing them in war games. General Anthony Zinni, head of the United States Central Command with responsibility for the Middle East, later said, ‘It struck me then that we had a plan to defeat Saddam’s army, but we didn’t have a plan to rebuild Iraq.’ He organised his own war game in 1999 and came to the conclusion that the invading forces would encounter considerable problems; the country was likely to fragment ‘along religious and/or ethnic lines’, rival forces would battle for power and the Americans would face growing hostility."
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Margaret MacMillan, War: How Conflict Shaped Us (2020)
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