As stated in “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry – Executive Summary:” “740. In October 2005, the Chiefs of Staff [UK] made a stark assessment of the insurgency and coalition strategy in Iraq. They concluded that ‘Ministers needed to be clear that the campaign could potentially be heading for *strategic failure*, with grave national and international consequences if the appropriate actions were not taken’. Gen Walker judged that only 5 percent of UK military effort in MND(SE) was devoted to counter-insurgency operations. But neither Air Marshal Sir Glenn Torpy, Commander Joint Operations, nor Gen Walker reassessed UK force requirements in Iraq, based on those two assessments.”
– Commissioned by the Prime Minister The Right Honourable Gordon Brown MP, “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry: Executive Summary,” IraqInquiry.org.uk, Oct. 18, 2005