“Not pretty” might be, in fact, the prettiest thing that can be said.

Pentagon studying its war errors - The Boston Globe:

This summer, high-level Pentagon officials ordered a pair of secret studies to pinpoint the military's failures in the two conflicts, and, according to one of the authors, “the results won't be pretty” when the findings are produced this fall. Last week, the Defense Department invited about 50 of the nation's top counter insurgency specialists to a closed-door meeting outside Washington to critique recent operations and chart a way forward.

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