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With his article in this issue, "Why Iraq Has No Army," James Fallows completes a quartet of cover stories on issues concerning the Iraq War that together constitute a sobering—and decidedly unofficial—history of the Bush administration's conception and prosecution of its policy in Iraq.
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The first of these articles, "The Fifty-first State?" (November 2002), published long before the war had even begun, laid out the many challenges that would confront the United States in a postwar Iraq—a prophetic imagining of the calamities that have in fact ensued. A further, disturbing insight involved the mindset Fallows encountered as he did his reporting: within the pre-war administration even to ask about how to prepare for possible difficulties in postwar Iraq was seen as tantamount to being anti-war and disloyal to the administration's program. "The Fifty-first State?" won the 2003 National Magazine Award in the public-interest category. ...
