An English newspaper, The Independent, is reporting that a Pentagon report commissioned by the Secretary of Defense found that the war in Iraq and divisions within the military brought "near catastrophic failures" to the relief efforts for Hurricane Katrina.
"The US military has long planned for war on two fronts. This is as close as we have come to [that] reality since the Second World War; the results have been disastrous."
So wrote Professor Stephen Henthrone, a professor at the US Army’s War College. I guess we shouldn’t be surprised. Nothing much has gone right with war planning in the last couple of years.
But why did this confidential report leak out in England? That’s what puzzles me.
Kit Stolz 