Donald Wright

Donald Wright is a military historian and author of On Point II: Transition to the New Campaign—an unclassified study of the U.S. Army's operations in Iraq after the 2003 fall of Saddam Hussein's regime. The Army report cites poor planning in the months after President Bush's May 1, 2003, announcement that major combat operations in Iraq had ended.¹

Fast Facts

1. On Point II: Transition to the New Campaign released on June 30, 2008
2. Wright co-authored the study with Army Colonel Timothy Reese
3. On Point II is the second installment of the Army's historical study of its role in the war in Iraq
4. Report is highly critical of U.S. military post-invasion operations in Iraq²
5. Cites poor post-war planning and mismanagement by Pentagon officials²
6. On Point II: Transition to the New Campaign is a follow-up to On Point: The United States Army in Operation Iraqi Freedom
7. Nearly 700-page study chronicles the period from May 2003 to the 2005 Iraqi elections
8. Wright and Reese are members of Contemporary Operations Study Team in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas²

Donald Wright Quote

"There were overly optimistic assumptions about how well Iraqi civil and local institutions of government would continue to function after Saddam was gone; and there was overoptimistic sense of how unified the Iraqi people would be when they had an opportunity to choose a new government."³

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