Bad social planning, not bad war-fighting imho. Iraq is an experiment in regime-change gone badly wrong. These mistakes (to me) stick out like Tits on a Fish
Tits on a fish, I laughed out loud. But you are so right about the social planning, and the war planning, WE (US) kicked ass untill the statue fell, then we thought the Iraqis would fall in love with us. After that, most everything we did was wrong, we let the republican guard disband and the army, we didn't secure the ammo dumps, no rebuilding of infrastructure, and a few hundred thousand unemployed young men got pissed and started throwing rocks, end of story, we lost the war in the first 6 months.