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The Insurgents - David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War (Paperback)
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The Insurgents - David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War (Paperback)
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A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
"The Insurgents" tells the inside story of the small group of
soldier-scholars, led by Gen. David Petraeus, who plotted to
revolutionize the oldest, stodgiest institution in America--the
military. Working from secret documents, private emails, and
interviews with more than one hundred key characters, Pulitzer
Prize-winning journalist Fred Kaplan details how these men and
women forged a community (a "cabal," some of them called it),
manipulated the bureaucracy, and changed official policy.
This is a story of power, politics, ideas, and personalities--and
how they converged to reshape twenty-first century warfare. It is
also a cautionary tale about how creative doctrine can harden into
dogma and how smart strategists--today's "best and brightest"-- can
win the battles at home but not the wars abroad. Petraeus and his
fellow insurgents made the US military more adaptive to the
conflicts of the modern era, but they also created the tools--made
it more tempting--for political leaders to wade into wars that they
would have been wise to avoid.
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