U.S. Policy in Post-Saddam Iraq Lessons from the British Experience

Michael Eisenstadt is a senior fellow at The Washington Institute specializing in Persian Gulf and Arab-Israeli security affairs. He has authored several books and numerous articles on the armed forces of the Middle East. A reserve officer in the U.S. Army, he served on active duty in 2001-2002 at United States Central Command (USCENTCOM) in Tampa, Florida Eric Mathewson, a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force, is the 2002-2003 national defense fellow at The Washington Institute. A fighter pilot and combat veteran, he most recently led a Predator Unmanned Aerial Vehicle squadron in Afghanistan supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. Colonel Mathewson holds a master's degree in military history and is recipient of the 1998 Secretary of the Air Force Leadership Award. The son of an oil executive, he grew up in the Middle East and North Africa and has worked and traveled extensively throughout the region. Ofra Bengio is a senior research fellow at the Moshe Dayan Center and a lecturer in Tel Aviv University's Department of Middle Eastern and African History Abbas Kelidar is a native of Iraq and a former lecturer in Middle Eastern politics at London University's School of Oriental and African Studies In 2001, Dr. Kelidar was a visiting fellow at The Washington Institute Peter Sluglett, a professor of history at the University of Utah, is former director of the university's Middle East Center. Currently, Dr. Sluglett is a visiting research fellow at All Souls College, Oxford Judith Yaphe is Middle East project director at the National Defense University's Institute for National Strategic Studies. Previously, Dr. Yaphe served for twenty years in the Central Intelligence Agency, where her analysis of Iraq and the Persian Gulf won her the Intelligence Medal of CommendationEisenstadt, Michael is the author of 'U.S. Policy in Post-Saddam Iraq Lessons from the British Experience', published 2003 under ISBN 9780944029848 and ISBN 0944029841.