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The substance of this article is interesting, as is the timing.
It should be pointed out that the man recommended for appointment to assume General Casey's job as Commanding Officer of Military Forces in Iraq, General David H Petraeus, actually rewrote the book for the US Army on counterinsurgency.
That is literally true, he did it over the last 2 years after serving in Iraq, where in 2004 he was selected to raise the Iraqi Army of less than 1000 to a force of over 150,000 by late 2005 when he was rotated out. Ignorant people actually criticized him because ahis focus was on quantity instead of quality, as if an Army starting from scratch is supposed to be a perfect force in less than 18 months.
By the way, that book he wrote is called Field Manual 3-24, which is the official counterinsurgency guide of the US Army.
Like I said, the timing and substance of this article is interesting.
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