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September 28, 2012

The Real Story on the Red Team Report

George Casey, Foreign Policy

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Michael Gordon's attempt to represent the August 2005 Red Team report as a missed opportunity to shorten the war is wishful thinking and not supported by the realities we were wrestling with in Iraq at that time.

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TAGGED: Counter-Insurgency, Iraq, Gen. George Casey

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