In this, as in other matters, it will need to look at the adequacy of plans made in the run-up to the war, the particular problems faced by UK forces in their areas of responsibility in the occupation and post-occupation phases, and the extent to which the UK acted in accord with its existing legal obligations.

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Allegations of impropriety in the awarding of contracts in the US, chaos at the occupation authority that ran post-war Iraq and large sums of Iraqi oil money disappearing apparently without any record of how it was spent.

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He places the long-serving post-war prime minister Yoshida Shigeru, who signed the U.S.-Japan peace treaty and the first post-occupation status of forces agreement, in the former camp, along with Nakasone Yasuhiro, Koizumi Junichiro, and Noda Yoshihiko.

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It is important to note that such progress is being made on a far more accelerated schedule than our fathers were able to effect in their post-World War II occupation and reconstruction of Germany and Japan.

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The German occupation had destroyed trust between Frenchmen, and in post-war France loyalty was especially valued.

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These powerful business alliances supplied Japan's war machine, and they survived attempts to dismantle them during the post-World War II U.S. occupation.

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For the majority of Japanese, the norm for centuries was grinding poverty, disease and incipient malnutrition until the post-war reconstruction, kick-started by the allied occupation, began to work its magic.

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European and U.S. diplomats are worried that the military advances made by the Northern Alliance in recent days, including their occupation of the capital Kabul, could hamper the search for a broad-based post-Taliban government.

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