Failing to Plan or Planning to Fail? Missteps of the Bush Administration in the Iraq War

Abstract

The Bush Administration's policy decisions leading up to and during the beginning of the Iraq War preceded its failure due to assumptions of success and technological progress from the war in Afghanistan, faulty intelligence, and a lack of focus for a detailed post war reconstruction plan.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 23, 2018
Accession Number
AD1177000

Entities

People

  • Steven C. Flores

Organizations

  • Marine Corps University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Counter WMD
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Biological Weapons
  • Department Of Defense
  • Governments
  • Green Berets
  • International Law
  • International Organizations
  • Iraqi-War
  • Kurds
  • Law
  • Middle East
  • Military Personnel
  • National Politics
  • National Security
  • New York
  • Security
  • Terrorism
  • Terrorists
  • United Nations
  • United States
  • United States Central Command
  • Warfare
  • Weapons Of Mass Destruction

Readers

  • Economics
  • Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.
  • Nuclear Non-Proliferation and International Security