Interview: Col. Peter Mansoor
Interview: Colonel Peter Mansoor On Petraeus And Obama – Marc Ambinder at The Atantic
Yesterday, President Barack Obama held the first meeting of his military cabinet. Expectations are huge; among those in attendance was Gen. David Petraeus, the commander in chief of Centcom and the officer who will be responsible for the Obama administration’s strategy in Iraq and Afghanistan.
For some insight into what Gen. Petraeus expects from President Obama, I spoke with a friend of his; Col. Peter Mansoor (Ret)., a key adviser who served two tours in Iraq. Mansoor is the author of Baghdad at Sunrise and an architect of the counterinsurgency doctrine that proved successful in Iraq. Mansoor is now a professor of history at Ohio State University…
Read the interview at The Atlantic.
