Insurgents David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War

Name: Insurgents David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War
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ISBN: 9781451642650

ISBN-10: 1451642652

ISBN-13: 9781451642650

Edition: 2013

Authors: Fred Kaplan

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Universally received as an important work by the best military analyst writing today, the inside story of the small group of soldier-scholars who—against fierce resistance from within their own ranks—changed the way the Pentagon does business and the American military fights wars. The insurgents made the US military more adaptive, but their self-confidence led us deeper into wars we would have done better to avoid.Based on previously unavailable documents and interviews with more than 100 key characters, including the group’s ringleader, General David Petraeus, The Insurgents unfolds against the backdrop of two wars waged against insurgencies in Iraq and Afghanistan. But the main insurgency…

Book details

List price: $17.99
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Publication date: 1/7/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.37" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Fred Kaplan teaches at Queens College and the Graduate Center of CUNY. He is the editor of The Essential Gore Vidal and the author of the biographies Henry James, Dickens, and Thomas Carlyle, which was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Kaplan lives in Brooklyn, New York.