Quote Originally Posted by j earl View Post
Sorry, the topic is great Generals. I was using the example to make a case for Gen Petraeus, in my misguided attempt to say maybe some great Generals are serving today, premature I know, but still. Not to discount other conflicts, but if the topic is "great" generals then this is my case.
As I remember, the subissue that you raised was complexity of the civil war, specifically:

[Iraq] has to be one of the most complex civil wars in history


Given that, it's not yet clear to me that Petraeus was strikingly more successful, than say, Major-General Ghazi Kanaan or Paul Kagame.