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To: unclewest who wrote (304716)	5/12/2009 5:57:45 AM
From: goldworldnet	Respond to of 793841

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To: unclewest who wrote (304716)	5/12/2009 8:24:35 AM
From: FJB	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793841

Stan McChrystal: America's New Commander in Afghanistan By M.J. STEPHEY Tuesday, May. 12, 2009 time.com

To: unclewest who wrote (304716)	5/12/2009 9:16:29 AM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793841

I am in the middle of the one book you muat make sure you read. The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008 By Thomas E. Ricks. I have never read a better "inside the military" book. Summary: Anyone who read Fiasco, Thomas E. Ricks's superb, bestselling account of the Iraq War through 2005, and has followed the war since has likely noticed that many of the heroes of that devastating book, the officers and analysts who seemed to understand what was going wrong in the war when the rest of the political and military leadership didn't, have since been put in charge, starting with General David Petraeus, the cerebral officer who took command in Iraq and led what became known as "the surge." Ricks, the senior Pentagon correspondent at the Washington Post, has stayed on the story, and he returns with his second book on the war, The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008. As good (and influential) as Fiasco was, The Gamble may be even better, telling the remarkable story of how a few people inside and outside the Pentagon pushed the new strategy through against opposition across the political spectrum and throughout the military top brass, and then, even more remarkably, how soldiers put the difficult plan into action on the ground and managed to sharply reduce the chaotic violence in Iraq. But the story doesn't end there, and Ricks's bracing conclusion--that the American military, like it or not, will still have a necessary role in Iraq for years to come--makes it likely that this may not be the last book we have from him on the subject.