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47.
On the notion that counterinsurgency often hinged on killing scores of “irreconcilable” enemy, cf. Moyer,
Question of Command,
245–46. For the scope of U.S. military operations against the insurgents, see Kagan,
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48.
See Robinson,
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52–54; Broadwell and Loeb,
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49.
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Gamble,
20–23.

50.
Robinson,
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60–62. For more on Galvin and Petraeus, cf. Broadwell and Loeb,
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65–69.

51.
On the accidental and near fatal shooting of Petraeus, see Robinson,
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61–62.

52.
On the earlier career of Petraeus in Iraq, and some of the controversy around him at the time of his appointment, cf. Ricks,
Gamble,
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53.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49283-2004Sep25.html
.

54.
Mattis: Moyer,
Question of Comm
and, 220–21. On Petraeus at Fort Leavenworth, see Ricks,
Gamble,
410–11.

55.
“Commander’s Counterinsurgency Guidance,” cf.
http://usacac.army.mil/CAC2/MilitaryReview/Archives/English/MilitaryReview_20081031_art004.pdf
.

56.
See J. Burns, “For Top General in Iraq, Role Is a Mixed Blessing,”
New York Times,
August 14, 2007
(
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/14/world/middleeast/14petraeus.html
).

57.
See the various Pew polls taken over the Petraeus tenure and phrased in a variety of different formulations:
http://pewresearch.org/pubs/770/iraq-war-five-year-anniversary
.

58.
See J. Burns, “For Top General in Iraq, Role Is a Mixed Blessing,”
New York Times,
August 14, 2007
(
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/14/world/middleeast/14petraeus.html
).
Robinson,
Ends,
348–50, credits much of the surge’s success to Crocker.

59.
For Odierno’s key role, see Kagan,
Surge,
200. The press reacted accordingly as Odierno went from being attacked as an unimaginative punitive commander to praised as a past master of counterinsurgency; best exemplified by the radically different portraits in Ricks’s
Fiasco
and his sequel
Gamble.

60.
On the repercussions from the IED threat, cf. Ricks,
Gamble,
21–23. After the “General Betray Us” ad, most public criticism of Petraeus began to disappear, at least to the extent that he would become a media icon and be appointed CIA director by the most liberal president in a generation.

61.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/147038/Gov-Christie-Unknown-Majority-Americans.aspx?utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=syndication&utm_content=plaintextlink&utm_term=Politics
;
for various official praise of Petraeus, see the hagiography in Broadwell and Loeb,
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184–88.

62.
Biden’s remarks were aired February 10, 2010, on
Larry King Live;
cf.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2010/02/vice-president-biden-iraq-could-be-one-of-the-great-achievements-of-this-administration
/.

63.
Petraeus and his own rather exalted idea of being a savior general: Broadwell and Loeb,
All In,
7. Cf. Jaffe and Cloud,
Fourth Star,
127–29, for Petraeus’s earlier acceptance of the nickname “King David” (“I don’t know where the King David thing actually came from, but you had to play that role a bit”; Jaffe and Cloud,
Fourth Star,
130).

64.
On Petraeus and his complex relationship with the Obama administration—a saga not fully understood at the time this manuscript went to press: Broadwell and Loeb,
All In,
120–22.

65.
For Petraeus’s problems in Afghanistan, see the sympathetic account of Broadwell and Loeb,
All In,
199–253; and the more critical Woodward quote: 121, “Bush general”:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/gen-david-petraeus-the-troops-cant-quit/2012/01/19/gIQALYlmKQ_story.html
.

66.
http://www.themonitor.com/articles/petraeus-54289-iraq-cia.html
.
On rumors of Petraeus’s consideration of resignation, see
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/report-petraeus-considered-resigning-over-afghan-drawdown_614981.html
.
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs post: Broadwell and Loeb,
All In,
147–48.

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202 (reports of exhaustion “irritated Petraeus to no end”).

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