Franks planning deficiency only start with incorrect interpretation of national strategic ends. He added risk by failing to conduct an independent operation design before planning. He or his planners never examine the current operational environment or attempted to define the current problem the invasion would solve; nor conduct dialog between other stakeholders like the State Department. (site) Without understanding of the operational environment, they never identified the tendencies of current Iraqi society. Without these tendencies CENTCOM planners did not understand the true complexity of Iraqi society so they never incorporated these complexities into their plan. This lack of understanding is a major reason why CENTCOM and seemly the
