If this is true (it’s the Slimes, so it’s a tossup), then Gates needs to be fired ASAP. It’s his job to develop such strategies, and to keep them current as situations change.
Someone don’t like Gates, and they want him out. And, wow....a secret document gets leaked.
“He puts one of yours in the hospital, you put one of his in the morgue. Its the Chicago way!”
Gates will be gone by the May Day parade.
I suspect the lack of strategy rests 100% at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, not the Pentagon. I further suspect it's not even a priority at the White House. I believe Obama has decided it's no big deal if Iran has nukes and it wouldn't surprise me if the Pentagon leaked this to give the public a bit of a heads-up on that fact.