Preface / Hans Binnendijk and David A. Sobyra
Introduction / Michael Miklaucic
Command in Afghanistan 2003-2005 : three key lessons learned / David Barno
Understanding the situation / Frederick Barton
Reflections on post-conflict politics of reform : a voice from inside Iraq / Nesreen Barwari
Preemptive post-conflict stabilization and reconstruction / Barbara K. Bodine
Lessons learned in the fog of peace / L. Paul Bremer
Complex operations in practice / Peter W. Chiarelli
No formulas : Bosnia, Haiti, and Kosovo / Wesley Clark
The Balkans revisited : Kosovo 1999
Timothy Cross
Retaining the lessons of nation-building / James Dobbins
Missions accomplished and unaccomplished / Jan Eliasson
The politics of complex operations / James Kunder
Reconstructing post-conflict reconstruction : lessons from Iraq / Lewis W. Lucke
Effective civilian-military planning at the operational level : the foundation of operational planning / H.R. McMaster
Lessons learned in democratic transition and building civil society / William Montgomery
Striking the right balance / William L. Nash
Understanding and responding to fragile and failed states / Andrew S. Natsios
Implementation in a multipart environment / Ronald E. Neumann
Beyond the Cold War : Pakistan and Somalia / Robert B. Oakley
Every complex operation needs a BG Rich Ellis / Thomas W. O'Connell
Post-conflict reconstruction challenges : some observations from Iraq / Robin Raphel.