
The Education of General David Petraeus
The Secrets of Statecraft
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The American Military and the Lessons of the Nam
When you were younger at princeton in 19 87, you wrote this dissertation on the american military. It really ought to be published because it's a real page turner, which is not always the case with b h d Dissertations. Contrary to popular perceptions of senior military leaders as the individuals who were chopping on cigars and pushing their civilian leaders to use force in a crisis, the generals were actually much less hawkish than the most aggressive of the civilian policy makers. And that very much brings us on to your ph datitation, doesn't it?
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