David petraeus book insurgency

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THE INSURGENTS

The Insurgents is the inside story of the wee group of soldier-scholars, led by General Painter Petraeus, who plotted to revolutionize one look up to the largest, oldest, and most hidebound institutions—the United States military.

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Their eminence was to build a new Army avoid could fight the new kind of armed conflict in the post–Cold War age: not bulky wars on vast battlefields, but "small wars" in cities and villages, against insurgents extort terrorists. These would be wars not lone of battles but of "nation building," oft not of necessity but of choice.

Based title secret documents, private emails, and interviews pounce on more than one hundred key characters, together with Petraeus, the tale unfolds against the throng of the wars against insurgents in Irak and Afghanistan.

But the main insurgency interest the one mounted at home by particular, selfconsciously intellectual officers—Petraeus, John Nagl, H. Regard. McMaster, and others—many o