http://www.foreignpolicy.com/article.../21/king_david
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Wow. That was complete garbage. She opens with this gem...
Then she goes on to call Petraeus a "warrior-general". Really!? I respect the guy's service, but c'mon. Mattis is a "warrior-general." And later on she starts talking about hairstyles, push-ups and pressing clothes, when she's not making grand canyon sized leaps. The whole thing read like a high school gossip column.Quote:
Allen's superhuman ability to write 20,000 to 30,000 pages of "potentially inappropriate" email
*For the record, I don't think generals should head the CIA
Ignore the entertainment, focus on the remarks about different organisational culture. ;)
I'd say it's both. You can have all the knowledge in the world, but if you can't discern and understand what you are looking at, you're worthless as an intelligence agency.
A comment by Nigel Inkster, ex-SIS (MI6), on the cited FP article.Quote:
I'm not so sure about militarisation but culturally this wasn't a good match
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Majority says it was necessary he resign
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General Principles: How Good was David Petraeus?
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Petraeus Returns to Public Life, ‘Keenly Aware’ of Altered Reputation
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Petraeus: We Must Be Coldly Realistic Over The Use Of Force
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Reflections on the "Counterinsurgency Decade": Small Wars Journal Interview with General David H. Petraeus
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The Way Petraeus Saw Counterinsurgency Operations
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5 ‘Big Ideas’ to Guide Us in the Long War Against Islamic Extremism
This WaPo article is by him!