Military report links unrest to poor planning

A ‘‘brutally honest’’ report prepared for the US Military Joint Chiefs of Staff blames post-war unrest in Iraq on hurried, inadequate planning before the invasion, defence officials said on Wednesday.

The report says US commanders were so busy preparing to defeat Iraq’s military and directing the fight that they were given too little time to properly prepare for ‘‘Phase IV’’ peace, according to the officials. It also flays planning for so-far fruitless efforts to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. The assessment, first reported in The Washington Times on Wednesday, has not yet been approved by Air Force General Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.