The actual July report can be found here.

Don't be daunted...most of it is appendices. You can get a very good overview by simply checking out the "Conclusions and Recommendations" section on page 43, but check out the original references to get the full gist of any particular paragraph.

The lack of support from some nations in NATO is an ongoing problem. If we can't get real support for a war that has been approved by the world, where do you go from there?

In the BBC article, Number 9 was my favorite:

9. The media war isn't going well, either.

"The Taleban is ahead in the information campaign. The government (must)...co-ordinate more effectively the presentation of Isaf's objectives and the way in which developments in Afghanistan are reported."

A great deal of this of course, is the media itself (particularly the BBC), which leaps like starving dogs on any piece of offal that our enemies put out there as news, and are hostile and skeptical of any information from our own side.