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... The "Story" The Runaway General - Michael Hastings, Rolling Stone How 'Rolling Stone' Got Into McChrystal's Inner Circle - Newsweek What Happened in Paris... - ...

Blog post - Jun 23 2010 - 6:04am - 89 comments - 0 attachments

... their zenith. Fuller proposed at the start of conflict any general over 45 be put on the reserve lists or sent to training commands in ... never had the privilege to serve with leaders like GEN McChrystal or Petraeus, or for that matter MAJ Bo Mixon my last BDE S-2. They ...

Journal Article - Apr 5 2012 - 4:36am - 94 comments

... can’t afford to transform.”  The General Accounting Office pointed out that the DLTR would only become a ... and LPK skills enhancement; anyone who spoke with Generals McChrystal or Flynn about language skills and their operational impact has seen ...

Journal Article - Mar 20 2012 - 5:26am - 30 comments

... by the senior leadership of big Army starting in 1969 with General Abrams and still I feel continues until today as a number of BCTs in ... the SF teams are being shut down by SEALs and Rangers(McChrystal, Olson) You really are mixing up a few things about what the HQ does ...

Journal Article - Dec 13 2009 - 11:25am - 77 comments

... status as unofficial Pentagon advisor to Mullen, Petraeus, McChrystal et al after Mortenson's bestselling book, Three Cups of Tea, became ... when the world wondered what was racing through the general's mind, he reached out to an unlikely corner of his life: the author of ...

Blog post - Apr 18 2011 - 8:06pm - 59 comments - 0 attachments

... Broadwell with Vernon Loeb , All In: The Education of General David Petraeus, New York, The Penguin Press, 2012, xxxi + 395 pages, ... key issues:  the push for the Afghanistan surge; the McChrystal affair, where Petraeus went from being one of McChrystal’s ...

Journal Article - Feb 14 2012 - 5:47am - 6 comments

... New York Times . Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the leader of American and NATO forces in Afghanistan, was shown a ... "When we understand that slide, we'll have won the war," General McChrystal dryly remarked, one of his advisers recalled, as the room ...

Blog post - Apr 27 2010 - 1:29pm - 13 comments - 0 attachments

... contempt and bickering, brought down Gen. Stanley McChrystal . Now Petraeus has been recalled from a depleted bench. This move ... Navy will see no increases in its budget. The secretary general of Japan's ruling party recently argued that U.S. naval power is in ...

Blog post - Jun 25 2010 - 8:03pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

... experienced special operator like Vice Admiral Harward,” General Mattis said, “especially as the character of the fight becomes ... There are, however, cautionary examples. Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal remains the most respected counterterrorism commander of his ...

Journal Article - Aug 24 2011 - 5:20am - 6 comments