Blog from the Capital (Free subscription) | yesterday
The author of a book on Christianity for military personnel says he made a mistake in publishing Gen David Petraeus' glowing review on the jacket. Now that the Military Religious Freedom Foundation has come down on Petraeus for saying every...
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | yesterday
For all the signs of fatigue, General David Petraeus is preparing to leave Iraq a remarkably safer place than it was when he arrived.
Global Dashboard (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
In 2006 the U.S national security establishment “re-discovered” counter-insurgency, as General David Petraeus fresh from having published the Army/Marine COIN doctrine – set about implementing a COIN strategy in Iraq and his fellow-travellers in the State Department like David Kilcullen pushed for a COIN handbook to change the strategic way the US government does COIN. Now...
SWJ Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
IRAQ Dexter Filkens has a reflectice piece in today's New York Times on General David Petraeus and his tenure at Multi-National Force - Iraq . General Petraeus is preparing to leave Iraq a remarkably safer place than it was when he arrived. Violence has plummeted from its apocalyptic peaks, Iraqi leaders are asserting themselves, and streets that once seemed dead...
International Security Network (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
By Shaun Waterman in Washington, DC for ISN Security Watch (19/08/08). When General David Petraeus demanded of a reporter in March 2003 "Tell me how this ends," he was referring to the war in Iraq - which senior US officers were then fretting might take months rather than weeks.
mnblue - (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
"And again, General David Petraeus said summarily and arbitrarily taking our troops out of there as Senator Obama has proposed is not in the best interests of the United States, could potentially be destabilizing and put at risk all of the great work and valor and sacrifice and blood and treasure our country has put into that country." - Gov. Tim Pawlenty, on Face The Nation ,...
Townhall.com (Free subscription) | 08/17/2008
You know the drill, here goes:Who are the three wisest people you know and who would you rely on in your administration'General David Petraeus "who took us from to defeat to victory in Iraq." Rep. John Lewis, "he can...
Mick Hartley (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
... then what we know now ? We know now that the overhauled counterinsurgency strategy devised by General David Petraeus - the "surge" - would prove spectacularly successful, driving Al Qaeda in Iraq from its strongholds, and killing thousands of its fighters, supporters, and leaders. We know now that US losses in Iraq would plummet to the lowest levels of the war, with just five...
Asia Times (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
US worries as Maliki gets 'difficult'By Gareth Porter WASHINGTON - American officials privately admit being concerned that Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has become "overconfident" about his government's ability to manage without US combat troops, according to an Iraq analyst who just returned from a trip to Iraq arranged by US commander General David Petraeus. Colin Kahl,...
Mercury Rising 鳯女 (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
... I think, have a sincere desire to see this country improve. McCain: First one, I think, would be General David Petraeus, one of the great military leaders in American history – who took us from defeat to victory in Iraq. One of the great leaders. Meg Whiteman, the CEO of e-Bay. Twelve years ago, there were five employees, today there are one and a half million people that make...
Afriquenligne (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
... McCain comprised his list of a range of people: the architect of the troop surge in Iraq, General David Petraeus; Democratic Congressman and civil rights leader John Lewis; and the former CEO of eBay, Meg Whitman.In response to being questioned about their toughest decisions in life, Obama answered that deciding to oppose the Iraq War in 2002 was his toughest, while McCain...
PERRspectives Blog (Free subscription) | 08/17/2008
... to his audience.) For his part, McCain responded to Warren's political question and pointed to General David Petraeus, Obama supporter Congressman John Lewis and former eBay CEO Meg Whitman. (McCain was quick to return to his stump speech and extol the glories of .)But Warren's divergent paths for Obama and McCain split further with the very next question on leadership and...
Anthony Fuller (Free subscription) | 08/17/2008
... and then a various number of politicians he’s worked with over the years. McCain listed General David Petraeus, Democrat John Lewis (a civil rights leader and Obama supporter,) and former Ebay CEO Meg Whitman. Obama played the safe answer on this one, while McCain covered all bases, and gave the better answer simply for mentioning Petraeus. Most Gut Wrenching Decision...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 08/17/2008
... would listen to McCain oddly left his wife (sitting in the front row) off of the list, mentioning General David Petraeus, EBay founder Meg Whitman and Congressman John Lewis. Perhaps the most intense moment came when Warren asked McCain what his greatest moral failing was and after a moment's hesitation replied that it was the failure of his first marriage. Warren served up...
Main and Central (Free subscription) | 08/17/2008
... according to an Iraq analyst who just returned from a trip to Iraq arranged by U.S. commander General David Petraeus. Colin Kahl, a fellow at the Centre for a New American Security (CNAS) -- which has supported a long-term U.S. military presence in Iraq -- told the press this week that there was "a certain degree of grudging respect for al- Maliki" among officials with whom...
