America at war: The failures of Petraeus and McChrystal - The Nation

Looking back into the events of first decade of new millennium, one is bewildered to see that despite being the most powerful nation on earth and having military apparatus on a scale greater than the sum of every other country, the US has patently failed to impose its solution on Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. - America at war: The failures of Petraeus and McChrystal
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