The problem in Afghanistan isn’t poor generalship, nor is it any uncertainty about the basics of counterinsurgency doctrine by the US Army and the US Marines – they “get it.” Better generals in Afghanistan will not solve the problem. The recently relieved commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, was put in place because he was the better general of counterinsurgency, sent there to rescue the failed mission. Now we’ve placed our hopes in an even better general, his successor, Gen. David Petraeus.
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