Posts Tagged ‘ Frederick Kagan ’

Neocons Guided Petraeus on Afghan War

December 19, 2012
Neocons Guided Petraeus on Afghan War

Exclusive: Gen. David Petraeus was so cozy with neocon think-tankers that he ensconced two of them in his Afghan War command and granted them top-secret access to U.S. military policy. One later leveraged Petraeus’s friendship to impress military contractors for funding support, writes Robert Parry.

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Petraeus’s CIA Steers Obama on Policy

October 20, 2011
Petraeus’s CIA Steers Obama on Policy

Exclusive: President Barack Obama may have thought appointing David Petraeus as CIA director was a political masterstroke, keeping the ambitious ex-general inside the tent. But Petraeus’s close ties to the neocons may now be undercutting Obama’s policy goals, reports Robert Parry.

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