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About John Mackinlay

John Mackinlay researches and teaches War Studies at Kings College London. He left the British Army in 1991 to become a research academic at Brown University, and followed this with teaching appointments at the Marshall Center (Garmisch) and the UK Joint Services Staff College.

Articles by John Mackinlay

Monday 14th July

Redrawing the Iraqi plan: from war room to street corner

The transition from war to post-war in Iraq is proving more painful and bloody than coalition leaders expected. US and British troops on the ground are forced to adapt quickly from the role of war-fighters to peace-keepers, while strategic planners confront the failures and lacunae of pre-war projections. If lives are to be saved and the reconstruction of Iraqi society is to succeed, an urgent rethinking is needed.
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