The experiences of Somalia, Rwanda and Bosnia have shown the disastrous potential of poorly conceived, ill-defined operations that lack the military or financial means to do the job.
But this decision was ill conceived, badly produced and poorly executed".
Fellow investigators, it added, later called it "ill-conceived, ill-planned" and unsafe, a "fly by the seat of your pants" operation.
Called by historian Charles Francis Adams, Jr. "ill-conceived, "ill-executed, [and] ill-fated", the short-lived colony is best remembered for the battle (some say massacre) there between Plymouth troops led by Miles Standish and an Indian force led by Pecksuot.
She said the cull was "ill conceived and ill thought-out, expensive and won't help cattle famers one iota".
It was, I think, a moment of madness, ill conceived and ill thought out, driven more than anything else by endless news videos of streams of Syrian and other muslim refugees making their way across Europe.
But the plan, if not ill conceived, was certainly ill executed.
But the big-drinks ban was ill conceived and poorly constructed from the start.
Another critic, David Feingold, an anthropologist, says that the opium-eradication programme is ill conceived and badly executed.
But those projects were often ill conceived and poorly executed, and became magnets for protests in Washington and in the countries where the bank operates.
