David Petraeus

NATO's Warrior Scholars: The Critical Backbone of Our Atlantic Alliance

Mark V. Vlasic | Posted 05.28.2012

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Mark V. Vlasic

When I was an Army ROTC cadet at Georgetown University, we were taught the importance of being "warrior scholars." This Memorial Day it seems fitting to consider the raw brainpower that complements our civilian leadership at NATO.

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John McCain's New Institute Launching Today

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: Mark Udall, Leadership, John McCain, Sheldon Whitehouse, Joseph Lieberman, Asu, David Petraeus, Cindy McCain, Kelly Ayotte, Lindsey Graham, Carl Levin, Foreign Policy, Politics News
Steve Clemons

McCain and a bipartisan group of supporters are punctuating the start of a new university-based institute committed to the leadership principles John McCain exhibited and encouraged, particularly in young people.

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Top Prosecutor At Guantanamo Military Commissions To Retire

NPR | DINA TEMPLE-RASTON | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Mark Martins, Guantanamo Bay, Video, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Military Commissions Act, Rule of Law Field Force, David Petraeus, Politics News

NPR has learned that the top prosecutor at the Guantanamo Bay military commissions has asked to retire from the military after he finishes his assignm...

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Lieutenant Colonel Davis, Death and Deception in Afghanistan

Matthew Hoh | Posted 04.07.2012

Read More: Eisenhower, Danny Davis, Pentagon, Intelligence, Leon Panetta, Pakistan, Daniel Davis, David Petraeus, Congress, Nie, Daniel L. Davis, Deception, Frank Wolf, Department of Defense, New York Times, Afghanistan, Karzai, Taliban, World News
Matthew Hoh

Over the last several months, at great risk to his career and personal life, LTC Davis has documented the deliberate misleading of the American people and Congress by the leaders of the Department of Defense. He has done his nation and the U.S. Army a tremendous service.

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Army Must Reject Anti-Islam Hate Speaker

Jon Soltz | Posted 03.31.2012

Read More: Islam, Department of Defense, Afghanistan, Muslim Americans, David Petraeus, votevets.org, Afghanistan War, Iraq War, Islamophobia, Army, Muslims, Iraq, Votevets, William Boykin, West Point, Islam in America, Politics News
Jon Soltz

Imagine that a man who said there should be no freedom of religion for Muslims, or Mosques in America, and that America is in a religious war that pits America, a "Christian Nation," against Islam was invited to address our men and women in uniform? Well, it's happening.

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Video of Marine Atrocities Highlights Split Between Right Wing and Our Military

Jon Soltz | Posted 03.13.2012

Read More: Marines, Military, Afghanistan, Pamela Geller, David Petraeus, Stanley McChrystal, Guantanamo, Detainee Abuse, Allen West, Military Law, Counterinsurgency, Abu Ghraib, Afghanistan War, World News
Jon Soltz

There are no words to express my disgust at the video making the rounds today, of U.S. Marines apparently urinating on the dead bodies of the Taliban.

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Was Petraeus The Model For New Book's Drunk General?

The Washington Post | Posted 01.04.2012

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Retired Gen. David H. Petraeus is probably the most photographed soldier of his generation. The pistol in his left hand and the whiskey in his right w...

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Petraeus Almost Resigned Over Afghan Drawdown, New Book Claims

AP | KIMBERLY DOZIER | Posted 02.28.2012

Read More: Holly Knowlton, Video, PAULA BROADWELL, Petraeus Biography, War in Afghanistan, David Petraeus, Stanley McChrystal, Penguin Press, John Allen, Barack Obama, Books News

WASHINGTON — Four-star general-turned-CIA director David Petraeus was urged to resign as Afghanistan war commander over President Barack Obama's...

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Behind Closed Doors: Congress Trying to Force Indefinite Detention Bill on Americans

Christopher E. Anders | Posted 02.08.2012

Read More: Adam Smith, John McCain, Lisa Monaco, James Clapper, National Defense Authorization Act, John Brennan, Leon Panetta, Robert Mueller, David Petraeus, Ndaa, Buck Mckeon, Carl Levin, Politics News
Christopher E. Anders

Secret deals for indefinite military detention without charge or trial? Tell Congress we are better than that. It's not who we are as Americans, and it is not the country or the world we want to pass on to our children and grandchildren.

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He Was 22... She Was 12...

Tom Engelhardt | Posted 01.31.2012

Read More: US-Troop-Deaths-Afghanistan, Iraq War Deaths, Department of Defense, War in Afghanistan, Nato, Drone War, David Petraeus, American Troops, Politics News
Tom Engelhardt

In what should be a think-outside-the-box moment, the sole lesson Washington seems capable of absorbing is that its failed policy is the only possible policy. Among other things, this means more "incidents," more "mistakes," more "accidents," more dead.

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An Odd Thanksgiving Proposal: Let's Go Back to Torturing Detainees

Daphne Eviatar | Posted 01.23.2012

Read More: Bush Administration, 2012 Presidential Election, Cia, Army Field Manual, Thanksgiving, David Petraeus, Sen.Kelly Ayotte, Enhanced Interrogations, Waterboarding, Defense Department, Torture, Politics News
Daphne Eviatar

A disturbing trend among some Republicans lately, as we saw in last night's debate, is to treat any terror-related crime as something completely new and different, which needn't comply with even our most basic sense of decency, let alone U.S. law.

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GOP Candidates Advocate Torture

Marjorie Cohn | Posted 01.19.2012

Read More: Mitt Romney, Waterboarding, Barack Obama, David Petraeus, Herman Cain, Torture, Enhanced Interrogation Techniques, Waterboarding Torture, Politics News
Marjorie Cohn

At last week's debate, Republican presidential candidates Herman Cain and Michele Bachmann defended waterboarding. The United States has long considered waterboarding to be torture.

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Substance, Not Soundbites, Needed at GOP National Security Debate

Anthony D. Romero | Posted 01.18.2012

Read More: Jon Huntsman, Michele Bachmann, Cia, National Security, David Petraeus, Ron Paul, Waterboarding, Aclu, GOP Debates, Foreign Policy, Torture, GOP Candidates, Politics News
Anthony D. Romero

During last week's debate, four of the GOP candidates promoted "enhanced interrogation tactics," including waterboarding, as necessary for national security. Plain and simple, waterboarding is torture. As such, it is illegal under U.S. and international law.

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Clinton To Pakistan: We Will Pursue Militants With Or Without Your Help

AP | MATTHEW LEE | Posted 12.20.2011

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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The Obama administration delivered a blunt warning Thursday that the United States will do what it must to go after milita...

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On 10th Anniversary of Afghan War, Time to Exit Militarized US Foreign Policy

Michael Shank | Posted 11.28.2011

Read More: National Peace Academy, Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict, Pentagon, Cia, Leon Panetta, Somalia, Pakistan, David Petraeus, Counter-Terrorism, Yemen, Iraq, Afghan Local Police, Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, Rand Corporation, Afghanistan War, Michael Shank, Wartime Contracting Commission, Brown University, Secretary of Defense, School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University, Libya, Afghanistan, The Hague, Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, Politics News
Michael Shank

October 7 marks the tenth anniversary of the US war in Afghanistan. After expending $4 trillion and thousands of lives, the US needs an exit from the depressing impasse of its militarized foreign policy.

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Top U.S. Intelligence Officials: Al Qaeda Weaker, But Far From Done

AP | KIMBERLY DOZIER | Posted 11.13.2011

Read More: Mike Rogers, Al-Qaeda, Central Intelligence Agency, Cia, Afghanistan, David Petraeus, Dianne Feinstein, Drone Strikes, Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, Ayman Al-Zawahri, Al Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden, World News

WASHINGTON — America's top two intelligence officials said Tuesday that al-Qaida is weaker and U.S. intelligence agencies are smarter since the ...

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$360 Million In U.S. Combat Support Lost To Afghanistan Insurgents, Criminals

AP | RICHARD LARDNER and DEB RIECHMANN | Posted 10.16.2011

Read More: US Contract Money, Video, Afghanistan Task Force, US Military, Afghanistan, David Petraeus, Kabul, Obama Administration, Taliban, US Troops Afghanistan, World News

WASHINGTON -- After examining hundreds of combat support and reconstruction contracts in Afghanistan, the U.S military estimates $360 million in U.S. ...

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I, Petraeus

Michael Brenner | Posted 10.16.2011

Read More: u.s. Foreign Policy, Iraq, Cia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, David Petraeus, Politics News
Michael Brenner

General David Petraeus is now the most influential figure in making American foreign policy. He has unrivaled prestige in Washington, he has close allies in the Pentagon and White House, and receives reflexive deference from President Obama.

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Ignoring Realities

Sen. Fritz Hollings | Posted 10.03.2011

Read More: Value-Added-Tax, Defense Spending, Corporate America, Kuwait, Oslo Attack, China, Saudi Arabia, David Petraeus, Osama Bin Laden, Politics News
Sen. Fritz Hollings

If we gave Corporate America the same tax benefit to on-shore instead of off-shore, we could cut taxes, provide billions to pay down the debt, create millions of jobs, promote exports and cut the size of government.

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COIN Classic, New COIN, Post-Modern COIN

Michael Brenner | Posted 10.03.2011

Read More: Iraq War, Coin, Iraq, Afghanistan, Counterinsurgency, David Petraeus, Afghanistan War, World News
Michael Brenner

Exactly what is COIN? Simply put, it is the theory and practice of suppressing insurgencies that mix violent and non-violence methods to topple existing governments and to seize power. Indeed, COIN is a growth industry.

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Petraeus' Wife Talks About Her New Role At The CFPB

DailyFinance | Posted 09.20.2011

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Sometimes, catastrophes can lead to changes that better protect us -- and by "us," I mean the residents of Main Street -- average Americans whose voic...

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Christian Science Monitor: Is Afghanistan Safer?

Christian Science Monitor | Dan Murphy | Posted 09.19.2011

Read More: Hamid Karzai, UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Afghan War, United Nations, David Petraeus, Afghanistan Drawdown, World News

With NATO handing over security control of parts of Afghanistan to local forces today, and with US top commander Gen. David Petraeus's departure from ...

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Multiple Policemen Killed, 2 People Beheaded In Afghan Violence

Reuters | Posted 09.17.2011

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LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan, July 18 (Reuters) - Seven Afghan policemen were killed in an attack on a checkpoint in the southern city of Lashkar Gah ...

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Extreme Secrecy Undermines the U.S. Effort in Afghanistan

Daphne Eviatar | Posted 09.14.2011

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Daphne Eviatar

While some secrecy is obviously necessary in the conduct of a war, the U.S. government's extreme secrecy about its detention of thousands of Afghans without charge or trial at the U.S.-run Bagram Air Base is actually creating a threat to U.S. troops, not alleviating one.

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David Petraeus, Barack Obama and the Failure to Look Back at Human Rights Violations

Jack Healey | Posted 09.12.2011

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Jack Healey

During his confirmation hearings to become the head of the CIA, General David Petraeus spoke to the issue of torture during the Bush/Cheney years with...

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