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October 10, 2009

All About Gen. Stanley McChrystal

Daniel Dombey, Financial Times

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General David Petraeus remembers when Stanley McChrystal, the man now heading Nato forces in Afghanistan, first made an impression on him: at about the halfway mark of a ten mile run in Fort Stewart, Georgia in 1982.

“We’d had a great conversation and maintained a fast pace and realised that his already impressive reputation was well-deserved,” he recalls. Both were young army captains then; Gen Petraeus is now Gen McChrystal’s immediate superior at US Central Command.

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