Academics respond to the Chilcot report into the nations role in the Iraq War
Researchers from the Department of Politics and Â鶹APP Relations have commented on the Chilcot report, a British public inquiry into the nation's role in the Iraq War, published on Wednesday 6 July.
Dr Robert Dover has written two opinion pieces about the report for Think: Leicester, the University's platform for academic opinion pieces. , published the day before the Chilcot report went live, he outlined four key lessons from the Iraq war and what he believed the Chilcot report was likely to say. , Dr Dover suggests that while the decision was a bad one, history should be kinder about the decision to go to war - a complex decision made within a hectic policy environment with incomplete information, prior to the intelligence reforms that were subsequently seen in the UK.
Dr David Strachan-Morrisoutlining how the Iraq War was only one of the options available to the UKÂ - and was taken before all other options were exhausted, with the Chilcot report acting as a damning indictment of British intelligence agencies, their capabilities, and their relationships to policymakers and to each other.
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