WASHINGTON -- On his second yearlong deployment to Afghanistan, Lt. Col. Daniel L. Davis traveled 9,000 miles, patrolled with American troops in eight provinces and returned in October of last year with a fervent conviction that the war was going disastrously and that senior military leaders had not leveled with the American public. Since enlisting...
CAMP VICTORY, Iraq -- For most of the war, nine gaudy palaces outside Baghdad -- monuments to Saddam Hussein's grandeur and questionable taste -- served as the headquarters for the American military in Iraq. Officers are now vacating them, and, like moving out of a long-occupied house, busy with the colossal job of sorting what to take and what to...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- An unusually powerful American delegation arrived here on Thursday to deliver the starkest warning yet to Pakistan, according to a senior American official: that the United States would act unilaterally if necessary to attack extremist groups that use the country as a haven to kill Americans. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham...
David Howell Petraeus (født 7. november 1952) er general i United States Army og leder af USA's tropper i Irak og Afghanistan, en stilling han blev valgt til af senatet med afstemningsresultatet 81-0, 26. januar 2007. Han tiltrådte 10. februar. Han efterfulgte general George Casey på posten. Som leder af irakstyrken styrer han USA's militære styrker i landet og implementerer Bush-regeringens nye Irak-strategi. Den 23. juni 2010 blev Patraeus udnævnt som den øverstbefaldende general for de amerikanske og allierede tropper i Afghanistan, da general Stanley A. McChrystal tog sin afsked efter udtalelser om blandt andre vicepræsident Joe Biden.
Petraeus blev færdig på U.S. Military Academy i 1974. Han fik årgangens bedste karakterer på U.S Army Command and General Staff College i 1983. Derefter tog han en Master i offentlig administration (1985) og Ph.D. i internationale forhold (1987) på Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs ved Princeton University. Senere fungerede han som assisterende professor i internationale forhold på U.S. Military Academy. Fold ud