US Military Admits To Mistakes In Iraq, Afghanistan

Report: US Military Admits To Mistakes In Iraq, Afghanistan -- Stars and Stripes/The Center for Public Integrity

When President Obama announced in Aug. 2010 the end of U.S. combat operations in Iraq, he complimented the soldiers who had served there for completing “every mission they were given.” But some of military’s most senior officers, in a little-noticed report this spring, rendered a harsher account of their work that highlights repeated missteps and failures over the past decade, in both Iraq and Afghanistan.

There was a “failure to recognize, acknowledge and accurately define” the environment in which the conflicts occurred, leading to a “mismatch between forces, capabilities, missions, and goals,” says the assessment from the Pentagon’s Joint Staff. The efforts were marked by a “failure to adequately plan and resource strategic and operational” shifts from one phase of the conflicts to the next.

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My Comment: Here is an easy prediction. What happened in Iraq and Afghanistan is going to be debated upon in US military schools and and academia for decades.

The website for The Center for Public Integrity is here.