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• Motley Crew

  …strategy that is likely to succeed. General McChrystal is proposing a counterinsurgency (COIN) strategy, much like General Petraeus 's "surge" strategy in Iraq. It requires pushing out beyond major cities to fight insurgents on their terrain with …

  By Katie Connolly

  10/07/2009Politics
• Bundy’s Blunders

  …Vietnam, where U.S. national security was not at stake, safe haven for Al Qaeda could lead to another attack. As Gen. David Petraeus , commander of CentCom, reminded an Atlantic Media/Aspen Institute conclave last week, the origins of 9/11 were in …

  By Jonathan Alter

  10/03/2009Politics
• Deployments and Diplomacy

  …current force levels involves, at a minimum, abandoning the strategy proposed by General McChrystal and endorsed by Gen. David Petraeus ; it would be widely interpreted as the first step toward withdrawal. The second option—offered as an alternative—would …

  By Henry Kissinger

  10/03/2009International
• Band Apart

  …Pentagon is split. The military supports General McChrystal: Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, and Gen. David Petraeus , McChrystal's immediate superior at Central Command, have said so publicly. After close to a decade in Iraq, the U …

  By John Barry

  10/01/2009Politics
• Know Thy Enemy. And Then Defeat Him.

  …analogy is inexact—many analogies are—it is true that Iraq had been written off as an insoluble problem before Gen. David Petraeus , with troops and a political touch, helped stabilize the country. The allegations of a stolen election make Hamid Karzai …

  By Jon Meacham

  09/26/2009Nation

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