Introduction
and key findings ........................................................................................
114
Pre-conflict
management of information on Iraq ...........................................................
115
The Foreign
and Commonwealth Office .................................................................
116
The Iraq
Planning Unit ............................................................................................
120
The Joint
Intelligence Committee ...........................................................................
120
The Defence
Intelligence Staff ................................................................................
122
The Cabinet
Office Overseas and Defence Secretariat ..........................................
123
The Ad Hoc
Group on Iraq ......................................................................................
124
The
Department for International Development ......................................................
124
US and UK
planning machinery ....................................................................................
126
The US
approach to nation-building .............................................................................
126
Initial UK
consideration of post-Saddam Hussein Iraq ..................................................
128
Preparations
for Mr Blair’s meeting with President Bush at Crawford, 6 April
2002 .....
135
Post-conflict
issues after Crawford ...............................................................................
144
The DFID
Iraq programme ............................................................................................
168
UK and US
organisational changes ..............................................................................
172
The
potential scale of the post-conflict task ..................................................................
181
FCO paper:
‘Regional economic consequences of military action
against
Iraq’ ......................................................................................................
181
Treasury
paper: ‘What would be the economic impact of war in
Iraq?’ ............
182
SPG paper,
4 September 2002: ‘UK Military Strategic Thinking on
Iraq’ .........
183
Mr Blair’s
commitment to post-conflict reconstruction ...................................................
185
Initial
analysis of the issues and the Ad Hoc Group on
Iraq ..........................................
195
FCO paper:
‘Iraq – Consequences of Conflict for the Region and
Beyond’ .....
197
FCO paper:
‘Scenarios for the future of Iraq after Saddam’ .............................
199
State
Department paper on lessons of the past ...............................................
207
SPG paper,
30 September 2002: ‘UK Military Strategic Thinking on
Iraq’ .......
208
111