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According to “The Day After: The Army in a Post-Conflict Iraq,” a December 2002 paper produced by the War College’s Center for Strategic Leadership, army studies have concluded that even with United Nations support, “a post-conflict Iraq requirement of 65,000 to 80,000” U.S. Army personnel is the low-end manpower requirement for a military occupation expected to last not a matter of months, but “a minimum of five years and possibly as many as ten.”