wˈeɪdʒɪŋ pˈiːs: ɐ spˈɛʃəl ˌɑːpɚɹˈeɪʃənz tˈiːmz bˈæɾəl tə ɹᵻbˈɪld ɪɹˈæk tˈuː θˈaʊzənd fˈaɪv, wʌz ɹˈɪʔn̩ ˈæftɚ ʃˈʌlθeɪz spˈɛnt sˈɪks mˈʌnθs ɪn tˈuː θˈaʊzənd fˈoːɹ æz ɐn ɛmbˈɛdᵻd dʒˈɜːnəlˌɪst wɪð ɐ jˌuːˈɛs ˈɑːɹmi sˈɪvəl ɐfˈɛɹz tˈiːm hˌuː wʌz tˈæskt wɪð wˈɜːkɪŋ ˌɔn ɹᵻbˈɪldɪŋ ˌɑːpɚɹˈeɪʃənz ɪn ɐ ʃˈɪaɪt nˈeɪbɚhˌʊd ɪn bæɡdˈæd, dˈʊɹɹɪŋ ðɪ ɪɹˈæk wˈɔːɹ.
Waging Peace: A Special Operations Team's Battle to Rebuild Iraq (2005), was written after Schultheis spent six months in 2004 as an embedded journalist with a US Army Civil Affairs team who was tasked with working on rebuilding operations in a Shi'ite neighborhood in Baghdad, during the Iraq War.