A recent Pentagon draft report has highlighted how “strategic leadership repeatedly failed” in a decade of US-led wars. Lawrence Freeman from the Executive Intelligence Weekly told RT it is now the military keeping a bellicose White House in check.

A copy of the May 23 draft military report entitled a “Decade of War” was published last Thursday by Inside the Pentagon, despite technically remaining an internal document.

In the report the Department of Defense admitted it has repeatedly failed to understand and react to the actual combat realities being faced by troops on the ground.

"In operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere, a failure to recognize, acknowledge and accurately define the operational environment led to a mismatch between forces, capabilities, missions and goals," the report read.

The document also mentions that unlike previous conventional wars, “success in many of the operations over the past decade depended on capacity building and achieving sustainability of gains that were made during operations."

http://www.rt.com/news/us-decade-war-report-660/