After weeks of stalling, Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin finally released the long-awaited campaign autopsy to nearly universal bad reviews.
What the DNC needed was a candid after-action report.
What they got was an extraordinarily incomplete post-mortem that fails to get to the heart of what worked, what didn’t and why.
The party is left without the kind of “lessons learned” that a thorough after-action report is expected to deliver, fact-based knowledge that can improve performance the next time around.
While after-action reports are usually done in the aftermath of a negative outcome, they are extremely useful after a major success as well.
