U.S. lacked formal Iraq post-war plan: Army historian [View All]

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States invaded Iraq without a formal plan for occupying and stabilising the country and this continues
to undercut the military effort there, the Washington Post has quoted a U.S. Army historian as saying.

Saturday's edition of the newspaper quoted Major Isaiah Wilson, an official historian of the Iraq campaign, as saying the overall performance
of the U.S. Army in Iraq has been "mediocre" and it failed to recognise it is engaged in a "people's war."

As a result, the United States is "perhaps in peril of losing the 'war,' even after supposedly winning it," the Post quoted Wilson as saying.

The critique is significant because it comes from a military insider and strategist who is positioned to be familiar with top-secret planning.

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