” ‘The ability to focus on it [post-Iraq war reconstruction and administration] was very difficult at the command perspective,’ added [Colonel John F.] Agoglia [in an interview conducted by Gordon Rudd on June 28, 2003]. ‘You had a lot of energy focused on the tactical piece, again Phase I through III. There wasn’t a whole lot of intellectual energy being focused on Phase IV.’ ”
– Michael R. Gordon and Bernard E. Trainor, Cobra II, Page 160