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I've seen it happen again and again. When a commander has to deal with two or three levels of war (strategy, operations, and tactics), he becomes less effective. Invariably, his attention and energy...

That's sort of my point. McChrystal works for Petraeus - technically - at least when he's not wearing his NATO hat. And Petraeus is the strategic commander, while McChrystal is working at the...

Is it just me, or has General Petraeus completely dropped off the radar scope? The military 'faces' of Afghanistan seem to have become Mullen and McChrystal. Why has Petraeus turned invisible in the...

Yep, September. Time to beat the dead horse again.

If the Armed Forces can be equally prepared for both COIN and conventional ("it's easy...the clouds are fluffy...the British Army handled it...

I guess Friedman is groping to show how Petraeus may approach the challenge in Afghanistan, but he seems to be laboring under several misconceptions.

Firstly, the 'Taliban' that has re-emerged is...

I have read that LTG Odierno, in his first go-round in Iraq, was one of those senior leaders who performed poorly and did much to spark the continuing troubles through a misapplication of force....

It is interesting how the Army can only do one thing at a time. I joined when we were still training for Vietnam, though the war had been over for almost a decade. For the next fifteen years it was...