This time, most of the cuts came before war plans took shape.

Just a few details and we've got ourselves a war plan.

The book covers the lack of a war plan in detail.

The general declined to be more specific about American war plans.

As everyone says, a war plan doesn't survive the first day of battle.

"There's no big war plan on the shelf," said one administration official involved in the planning process.

"And I don't know of anyone who has seen the war plan in our news organization."

No going to the bathroom without a coordinated war plan?

But it might prove too late to allow them to bring the country into America's war plans.

American ground commanders who said the war plan provided too few troops were right for the wrong reasons.