I was responding to where you were wondering who might have blocked his further promotion within the military. My guess is that it was the military establishment. They lost the argument over strategy and tactics in Iraq, and they were forced to win the war Petraeus' way instead of losing it their way, and they are never going to forgive him over it.
There's a good article in The Atlantic, "General Failure", about how incompetent generalship goes unpunished and even gets promoted. It is a stark contrast with WW II where Marshall reassigned ineffective generals and had a fast track for promoting junior offices with the abilities we needed. In the GWOT, eventually things got so desperate that we had to resort to proven techniques for winning, but only after trying everything else first, and not without ill feelings.
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Date: 2012-11-11 08:59 pm (UTC)There's a good article in The Atlantic, "General Failure", about how incompetent generalship goes unpunished and even gets promoted. It is a stark contrast with WW II where Marshall reassigned ineffective generals and had a fast track for promoting junior offices with the abilities we needed. In the GWOT, eventually things got so desperate that we had to resort to proven techniques for winning, but only after trying everything else first, and not without ill feelings.