Occupation Plan for Iraq Faulted in Army Document
This is a very frank report published in the NY Times.
To supplement this and give you a truer sense of why we had this failure, let me refer you to an article from Vanity Fair last year (the one with the actor who played Tony Soprano on the cover.) In an article about the internal goings on at the Pentagon in the run-up to the war, the fact that Defense Secretary Rumsfeld artificially and substantially reduced the number of troops to be used in the operation is described in detail.
Here is the link to the NY Times article.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/29/washington/29army.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&th&emc=th
Here is the link to the Vanity Fair article, Night of the Generals
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2007/04/iraqgenerals200704
To supplement this and give you a truer sense of why we had this failure, let me refer you to an article from Vanity Fair last year (the one with the actor who played Tony Soprano on the cover.) In an article about the internal goings on at the Pentagon in the run-up to the war, the fact that Defense Secretary Rumsfeld artificially and substantially reduced the number of troops to be used in the operation is described in detail.
Here is the link to the NY Times article.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/29/washington/29army.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&th&emc=th
Here is the link to the Vanity Fair article, Night of the Generals
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2007/04/iraqgenerals200704
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