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How Petraeus changed the U.S. military - CNN.com
By Peter Bergen , CNN National Security Analyst
updated 1:31 PM EST, Sat November 10, 2012
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CNN.com
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Peter Bergen says that before heading the CIA, Gen. David Petraeus led a key change in U.S. miliary doctrine.
Editor's note: Peter Bergen, CNN's national security analyst, is director of the National Security Studies Program at the New America Foundation and the author of "The Longest War: America's Enduring Conflict with Al-Qaeda," from which this essay about Gen. David Petraeus is, in part, adapted. Petraeus stepped down as director of the CIA on Friday after admitting to an extramarital affair.
(CNN) -- Historians will likely judge David Petraeus to be the most effective American military commander since Eisenhower.
He was, after all, the person who, more than any other, brought Iraq back from the brink of total disaster after he assumed command of U.S. forces there in 2007.
To understand how daunting a task that was, recall that when Petraeus took over in Iraq, the country was embroiled in a civil war so vicious that civilians were dying at the rate of 90 a day.
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