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Through the contacts and friendships we made over the years working with people in uni form i became involved and probably only general petraeus would have the confidence and acumen to say great. >> i have an offer for you and proprosal, i need somebody to take over the project to guide the rewriting of this counter insurgency doctrine, would you do it and this started me on a year-long mission to rewrite this doctrine working with general petraeus. >> fundamental tenet on which the doctrine tur...

>> right after he finished in iraq they sent him to fort levinworth kansas which is the armies it school if you will for the operational level of war and it was while he was there that he came to the realization that this was an insurgency. we had really not updated our counter insurgency doctrine since the vietnam war. >> and it was there that he began to assemble the writing team and think about revamping the doctrine. >> sarah is the former faculty director of the carr center for human rights...

Iraq they sent him to fort lev enworth kansas the army school if you will for the operational level. it was while he was there that he came to the realization that this was an insurgency. we had not updated our counter insurgency doctrine since the vietnam war. >> it was there that he began to assemble his writing team and think about revamping the doctrine. >> sara shul is the former faculty director for harvard kennedy school of government. >> i was at the time assembling a group to discuss co...

>> right after he finished in iraq they sent him to fort levinworth kansas which is the armies it school if you will for the operational level of war and it was while he was there that he came to the realization that this was an insurgency. we had really not updated our counter insurgency doctrine since the vietnam war. >> and it was there that he began to assemble the writing team and think about revamping the doctrine. >> sarah is the former faculty director of the carr center for human rights...

Security forces. >> right after he finished in iraq they sent him to fort levinworth kansas which is the armies it school if you will for the operational level of war and it was while he was there that he came to the realization that this was an insurgency. we had really not updated our counter insurgency doctrine since the vietnam war. >> and it was there that he began to assemble the writing team and think about revamping the doctrine. >> sarah is the former faculty director of the carr center...

Security forces. >> right after he finished in iraq they sent him to fort levinworth kansas which is the armies it school if you will for the operational level of war and it was while he was there that he came to the realization that this was an insurgency. we had really not updated our counter insurgency doctrine since the vietnam war. >> and it was there that he began to assemble the writing team and think about revamping the doctrine. >> sarah is the former faculty director of the carr center...

>> right after he finished in iraq they sent him to fort levinworth kansas which is the armies it school if you will for the operational level of war and it was while he was there that he came to the realization that this was an insurgency. we had really not updated our counter insurgency doctrine since the vietnam war. >> and it was there that he began to assemble the writing team and think about revamping the doctrine. >> sarah is the former faculty director of the carr center for human rights...

That the overall head i have always felt should be a civilian. but that civilian has to know how to temper sharp elbows and how to really move the entire community. and thats the trick. now, general clapper is respected for his intelligence acumen, no question about that. we will do -- were doing our due diligence and we will proceed. >> before i close with senator lugar, does that mean that a yes vote from you for the nomination of general clapper is not a done deal? >> oh, candy, look, you can...

Afghanistan, they might have a propane tank in there but they also have an explosive. there is usually discarded bomb. theres ex military munition. thats an explosive component and the propane tanks are just there to accentuate whats going on. in this case there was no explosive. it was merely a device that was set up to try to achieve a fireball but, again, whats clear is this is a lot more difficult than people anticipated it would be. this person did not even have the acumen to set up a trigg...

State law that conflicts with federal law is invalid and in all likelihood the theory theyre going to proceed upon. >> let me call upon your legal acumen again. lets suppose youre representing the state of arizona in this matter, how do you defend against that. >> the state of arizona is to say, our law doesnt thwart federal law or object to the purposes of federal law, what our law does, arizona can say, sets up a system of enforcement. that is to saw our law doesnt go beyond federal law, all i...