General David Petraeus (US Army, Retired) served as Commander of the Surge in Iraq, US Central Command, and International Forces in Afghanistan, and he subsequently served as the Director of the CIA. He is the co-author of Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine, the Kissinger Fellow to Yale University’s Jackson School, and a Partner with KKR
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The United Kingdom’s armed forces have long made an indispensable contribution to the defense of the free world. They are widely respected for their professionalism, discipline, and fighting spirit, and they remain central to the multinational coalitions that Western democracies must form and sustain in an increasingly contested security environment. I was privileged to serve with
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The below is an edited transcript of David Petraeus’s interview with CNN’s Jim Sciutto. On the war’s momentum: It has fundamentally shifted, and I’m normally fairly guarded and cautious about this, but the tide clearly has turned because the success of this offensive, as important as it is itself on the ground, is that it
