Due to the complexity and challenges of executing interagency
combating WMD plans, the U.S. government should evaluate
the consolidation of combating WMD activities and the
incorporation of intelligence collaboration to increase
effectiveness.12 Now that the U.S. military has departed from
Iraq, a team from the U.S. Embassy should assess CWC and
combating WMD progress and adjust building partner capacity
priorities and tasks to sustain and enhance combating WMD
and counterterrorism progress across various lines of effort.13
Endnotes:
1
Quadrennial Defense Review Report, Department of
Defense, February 2010, , accessed on 3 May
2013.
2
Convention on the Prohibition of the Development,
Production, Stockpiling, and Use of Chemical Weapons and
on Their Destruction, Organisation for the Prohibition of
Chemical Weapons, ,
accessed on 3 May 2013.
3
Chad Menegay, "Iraqi Army Chemical Defense Regiment
Proves Capable," 26 January 2011, , accessed on 3 May 2013.
Unclassifed key points from a National Ground Intelligence
Center report (entitled "Overview of Chemical Munitions
Found in Iraq Since May 2004") to Congress, 21 June 2006,
, accessed on 3 May 2013.
4
5
Jonathan B. Tucker, "Iraq Faces Major Challenges in
Destroying Its Legacy Chemical Weapons," James Martin
Center for Nonproliferation Studies, 17 March 2010, , accessed
on 3 May 2013.
6
Michael Luhan, "Iraq Designates National Authority
for the Chemical Weapons Convention," Organisation for
the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, 16 February 2009,
, accessed
on 3 May 2013.
7
Michael Luhan, "Iraq Joins the Chemical Weapons
Convention," Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical
Weapons, 14 January 2009, ,
accessed on 3 May 2013.
8
National Military Strategy to Combat Weapons of Mass
Destruction, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, 13 February
2006.
9
United Nations Security Council Resolution 1540, adopted
by the United Nations Security Council at its 4,956th meeting,
28 April 2004, ,
accessed on 3 May 2013.
11
Menegay, January 2011.
12
Brian Findlay et al., "Beyond Boundaries in the Middle
East: Leveraging Nonproliferation Assistance to Address
Security/Development Needs With Resolution 1540," the
Stimson Center and the Stanley Foundation, 2008, , accessed on 7 May 2013.
13
National Security Strategy, May 2010, , accessed on 7 May 2013.
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Lieutenant Colonel Kyburz is a WMD operations offcer on
the Joint Staff. He holds a bachelor's degree in engineering
management from the U.S. Military Academy–West Point,
New York, and master's degrees in strategic intelligence from
the National Defense Intelligence College (now the National
Intelligence University), Washington, D.C., and in business
administration from Indiana University.
10
"2011 Posture Statement," U.S. Central Command, March
2011.
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