The House Armed Services Committee wants Defense and State department officials to improve their cooperation on provincial reconstruction teams in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to the panels report accompanying the fiscal year 2009 defense authorization bill. In particular, House authorizers argue, the two agencies should put in place a clear command structure governing how the teams operate and to whom they report, the May 16 document, released this week, states. "The committee notes that [PRTs] operate under complicated, and at...
