McChrystal’s radical war plan losing early luster
KABUL — US Gen. Stanley McChrystal radically altered the rules of war in Afghanistan but, sacked after a year, the success or failure of his counter-insurgency masterplan will fall to David Petraeus. The brilliant former special operations chief was appointed commander last June of what has become America’s longest war when his predecessor was pushed out for being unable to stem an unravelling war in the “graveyard of empires.” Source: The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100625com8.html |
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