... e lack of any agreed-on plan, the improvised nature of the organization, and the rapidity of staff turnover made a greater degree of delegation difficult and, in the early days, possibly dangerous; ... years of mismanagement and economic sanctions and further dam-aged by the widespread looting that followed Saddam’s fall. Prewar American planning had called for fixing only what the invasion ... was, at one and the same time, an element of the Defense Department, a multi-national organization, and a foreign government. In their capacity as the government of Iraq, CPA managers rejected...