Via the Boston Globe: Are top Pentagon appointees preparing to admit that maybe they got a few things wrong in Iraq?
This summer, high-level Pentagon officials ordered a pair of secret studies to pinpoint the military’s failures in the two conflicts, and, according to one of the authors, “the results won’t be pretty” when the findings are produced this fall. Last week, the Defense Department invited about 50 of the nation’s top counter insurgency specialists to a closed-door meeting outside Washington to critique recent operations and chart a way forward.
