By Julian Assange. A leaked UK military report into the Iraq war released to the public by Wikileaks. The sensitive 108 page report, written in late 2006, damns UK and US war planning, which "ran counter to potential Geneva Convention obligations" -- and lead directly to the post invasion collapse of Iraqi society: "leaders should not start an operation without thinking...it is not enough just to identify the desired end-state". The report reveals that Whitehall had been secretly planning the war during 2002... Although the UK wanted UN security council approval, the UK found itself roped to a US ideological agenda and timetable: "the UK had to work to a timetable and strong ideological views set in the United States. As one Senior Officer put it: 'the train was in Grand Central Station, and was leaving at a time which we did not control.'" The combined secrecy and ideology was a planning disaster that directly lead to the collapse of Iraqi society. The report argues the result was a breach of Geneva convention obligations, for which coalition governments are legally responsible. The US attitude to human rights and "collateral damage" also bothered the UK military. As did the way the United States interrogated ("debriefed") detainees.