Stakeholders! Identifying, Prioritizing, and Engaging Them on Your Programs and Projects| Virtual Experience Series (October 2021)
When the U.S. Army released the long-awaited critique of its successes and failures in the Iraq War, many questioned how honest the Army would be with itself. A review of the documents, however, revealed an unflinching account of some of the Service’s key failures in planning and executing military operations at all levels of engagement—strategic, operational, and tactical. One explanation is that Army leaders did not fully understand the operating environment in Iraq—its totalitarian government structure, tribal allegiances, underlying ethnic tensions, and aged infrastructure. Planning assumptions were made without the insight, advice, and counsel from key individuals whose expertise would have been beneficial.
