"In Iraq and Afghanistan, for example, gaps between prior visions of future warfare and the nature of the eventual wars themselves complicated efforts to adapt strategy over time. Minimalist, linear plans – in place at the outset of both wars – were disconnected from the ambition of broader policy objectives and the complexity of the operating environment. Indeed, recent war plans have, at times, been essentially narcissistic, failing to account for interactions with determined enemies and other complicating variables."
I think it's wonderful that an Army General is finally admitting to such. Bush's maximalist plans for change in Iraq & Afghanistan didn't fit with the Army's minimalist planning day-after approach. Lessons finally learned?
