How Petraeus Changed The U.S. Military -- Peter Bergen, CNN National Security Analyst
(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.
Iraq's government itself was fueling the violence because the Iraqi Ministry of the Interior was home to a number of Shia death squads.
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Update: Petraeus: How will he be remembered? -- CBS
My Comment: History is still being written on Iraq and Afghanistan .... but the military strategy that General Petraeus applied to Iraq was a success, and in Afghanistan it did set back the Taliban.
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That's if you want to believe the statistics fed to the American public through the system.
As I said .... history is still being rewritten.
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