Iraq Ain’t No Insurgency, Says Former Petraeus Aides
Iraq Ain’t No Insurgency, Says Former Petraeus Aides By Noah Shachtman - Cross-posted at Danger Room Iraq cooled from a raging boil to a slow simmer, thanks mostly to tactics taken from the military’s counterinsurgency manual. Or, at least, that’s the accepted wisdom. But a group of military thinkers and Iraq veterans says the established narrative is all wrong. According to them, Iraq may not even be an insurgency at all. In the classic insurgency scenario, you’ve got a group of guerrillas on o
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