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Pentagon Bounces Rolling Stone Reporter: What Embed Ground Rules Actually Say
By Carl Franzen - AOL News(Aug. 4) -- The pen is mighty, but the Pentagon has ways to keep it in check. So learned Rolling Stone writer Michael Hastings on Tuesday when the military announced it would not allow him to embed with the U.S. army in Afghanistan. The decision comes a month and a half after the release of his explosive article on Gen. Stanley McChrystal. The widely circulated piece, "The Runaway General," revealed unvarnished animosity from McChrystal's top aides toward Obama administration officials and created a P.R. nightmare for the White House that eventually culminated in McChrystal's resignation as ...
Gen. David Petraeus' Strategy for Afghanistan: It Works
By David Wood - Politics DailyLost in the furor over the disgraced Gen. Stanley McChrystal is this simple truth: The counterinsurgency strategy championed by his successor, Gen. David Petraeus, works. Awaiting his confirmation by the Senate early next week as the new commander in Afghanistan, Petraeus is assembling his war staff and planning how to tackle his biggest and most immediate problems: the stalled offensive in Kandahar, the lackluster performance of the Afghan army and police, and the ragged relations with Afghan President Hamid Karzai. As chief architect of the counterinsurgency strategy he implemented in ...
Washington Weighs Gen. McChrystal Replacement
By David Wood - Politics DailyTwo Marine generals, John Allen and Jim Mattis, are on the list of potential replacements for Gen. Stanley McChrystal as he flies to Washington for a grim meeting Wednesday with President Barack Obama. McChrystal, the hard-charging top combat commander in Afghanistan, was abruptly recalled to Washington on Tuesday, hours after White House officials read the critical comments and crude remarks the four-star general and his staff had made to a magazine journalist about administration officials, including Vice President Joe Biden. McChrystal reportedly submitted his resignation ...
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