Iraq: building a new security structure

It argues that how the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) chooses to deal with the country's former military and how it is now going about starting up a new army have decisive political implications, and both appear, at a minimum, to have been poorly thought out and recklessly implemented - opening the door for alienation of the Sunni population and becoming an arena for renewed internal political, sectarian and ethnic conflict.

A significant course correction is required in order to lay the foundations for a stable, and stabilizing, indigenous security structure.