The groundwork for the campaign plan was laid out in an
assessment formulated by Petraeus's senior counterinsurgency adviser, David J.
Kilcullen, with about 20 military officers, State
Department officials and other experts in Baghdad
known as the Joint Strategic Assessment Team. Their report, finished last month,
was approved by Petraeus and Crocker as the basis of a formal campaign plan that
will assign specific tasks for military commands and civilian agencies in
Iraq.