ricks.foreignpolicy.com - 1/13/2009
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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 ...
politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com - 1/20/2009
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politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com —
WASHINGTON (CNN) — CNN has learned Gen. David
Petraeus is returning to Washington to attend the meeting
President Barack Obama is planning to have Wednesday with the Joint Chiefs and his wartime commanders. That meeting is expected to involve ...
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Petraeus returning for Obama meeting Wednesday
ricks.foreignpolicy.com - 1/7/2009
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ricks.foreignpolicy.com —
I blurbed his book, he blackballed me Did
faculty members at the Army War College curtail their
criticism of the Iraq war for fear of institutional retaliation? That seems to be the bottom line in a situation I stumbled across just a few ...
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Fiasco at the Army War College
whitehouse.gov - 1/20/2009
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whitehouse.gov —
IRAQ President Obama and Vice President Biden will
responsibly end the war in Iraq so that we
can renew our military strength, dedicate more resources to the fight against the Taliban and al Qaeda in Afghanistan, and invest in our economy at home. The ...
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Iraq
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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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mudvillegazette.com 3/23/2009 — Andrew Breitbart votes "yes" : The last time I felt this hopeless was when the Democratic Party and its cohorts in the media sold us on the false premise that we lost the war in Iraq. In the process, they also sought to demonize the very man that led us out of our peril.
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The Petraeus Doctrine - The Atlantic
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article.nationalreview.com 1/19/2009 — As the focus of judgment draws back over time, it will become more apparent that Bush and Rumsfeld defined the strategic landscape.
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worldaffairsjournal.org 1/14/2009 — Wrong, terribly wrong T he wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the political debates concerning the nature and scope of U.S. involvement in those countries, have resurrected the “lessons” of Vietnam once again. Far from having kicked the “Vietnam ...
Pentagon Report Confirms Failure Of Iraq Reconstruction Effort
tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com 12/16/2008 — The New York Times and Pro Publica got an advanced look at a report on the American reconstruction of Iraq -- and it's not pretty.
The report concludes, in the words of the Times and Pro Publica, that even now, "the United States government has in ...
Gen. David Petraeus steps up to new post
bostonherald.com 11/1/2008 — M ACDILL AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. - Gen. David Petraeus, credited for turning around the Iraq war with last year s counterinsurgency surge strategy, took over command of Central Command yesterday, placing him in charge of both wars in Iraq and ...
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