CSPAN Key Capitol Hill Hearings October 18, 2014
Enough and lucky enough to take advantage of the Sunni Awakening , the decision of several sunni tribes to switch sides and fight against the iraqi branch of al qaeda. He was a remarkable general, a remarkable man. Vietnam whentudy he did his own doctorate work at princeton university. Counterinsurgency very deeply. I was privileged to work with him on rewriting the marine corps counterinsurgency, which we published in 2006 just a few months before he took command of the effort in iraq. A fairly extraordinary event in military history. Lucky. S was he was fortunate that most of the american un...