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ricks.foreignpolicy.com — You've got to be pretty good at strategy if you are the person Gen. David Petraeus turns to for advice on the subject. That's just one reason Col. H.R. McMaster's solid piece in the new issue of World Affairs is so interesting. Reviewing aspects of the Vietnam and Iraq wars, McMaster ...

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War and Piece — Tom Ricks : Gen. H.R. McMaster, the brain behind Petraeus, speaks: In Iraq, as in Vietnam, observes McMaster, "the way the United States went to war influenced everything that followed. A fixation on American technological superiority and an associated neglect of the human, psychological and political dimensions of war doomed one effort and very nearly the other." The original war plan assumed that the United States could start pulling out shortly after the invasion. "Five years later, it is clear that the initial planning for the war misunderstood the nature of the conflict, ...

Why We Failed
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — Thomas Ricks praises a new article by H. R. McMaster, a U.S. Army Colonel who has advised Petraeus. It's well worth reading as a guide to the limts of Rumsfeldism. ...

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