Publication

This case study examines the US decision-making process in choosing to go to war in Iraq and suggests possible improvements. The author argues that US efforts in Iraq were hobbled by a set of faulty assumptions, a flawed planning effort, and a continuing inability to create security conditions in Iraq that could have fostered meaningful advances in stabilization, reconstruction and governance. He concludes that the war in Iraq and its aftermath have exposed a flawed decision-making process and weak decision execution mechanisms.