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20. Thomas Donnelly, “Toward a Global Cavalry,” AEI Outlook Series, July 2003, http://www.aei.org/outlook/17783.
21. Statement of Lieutenant General Robert Wagner, Senate Subcommittee on Terrorism, Unconventional Threats, and Capabilities, February 26, 2004, http://www.iwar.org.uk/rma/resources/transformation/02-26-2004-wagner.htm.
22. “U.S. Casualties in Iraq,” http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/iraq_casualties.htm.
23. “The President’s News Conference,” April 13, 2004, http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/apr/14/iraq.usa2.
24. “Rumsfeld Interview with Chris Matthews,” April 29, 2004, http://www.defense.gov/transcripts/transcript.aspx?transcriptid=2555.
25. “Feith Speech at the American Enterprise Institute,” May 4, 2004, http://www.america.gov/st/washfile-english/2004/May/20040507124856sjhtrop0.1972315.html.
26. “Bush’s Statement at Pentagon,” May 10, 2004, http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/10/politics/10CND-TEXT.html?pagewanted=1.
27. “Fletcher Conference Remarks as Delivered by Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz,” November 14, 2001, http://avalon.law.yale.edu/sept11/dod_brief89.asp.
5. COUNTERFEIT COIN
1. “General Foresees ‘Generational War’ Against Terrorism,” Washington Times, December 13, 2006, http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2006/dec/13/20061213-010657-5560r/.
2. “Rumsfeld’s War-on-Terror Memo,” October 16, 2003, http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/executive/rumsfeld-memo.htm.
3. Max Boot, “It’s Not Over Yet,” Time, September 3, 2006.
4. Bob Egelko, “Pelosi’s First Priority Is to Halt Iraq War,” San Francisco Chronicle, December 10, 2006, http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/12/10/BAGJGMSTAQ1.DTL?#ixzz0U0BWyLWi.
5. “President’s Address to the Nation,” January 10, 2007, http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2007/01/20070110-7.html.
6. Paul Krugman, “Things to Come,” New York Times, March 18, 2003, http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/18/opinion/things-to-come.html?pagewanted=1.
7. Gen. Sir Rupert Smith, The Utility of Force: The Art of War in the Modern World (New York, 2007), pp. xiii, 291.
8. Rick Atkinson, “The Long, Blinding Road to War,” Washington Post, March 7, 2004, http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A36843-2004Mar6?language=printer.
9. David Howell Petraeus, “The American Military and the Lessons of Vietnam: A Study of Military Influence and the Use of Force in the Post-Vietnam Era” (unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Princeton University, 1987), p. 305.
10. Petraeus, “The American Military and the Lessons of Vietnam,” p. 241.
11. Petraeus, “The American Military and the Lessons of Vietnam,” p. 13.
12. “FM 3-24 Available in Hard Copy,” Small Wars Journal (May 8, 2007), http://smallwarsjournal.com/blog/2007/05/-fm-324-the-new/.
13. http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/841519.html.
14. FM 3-24/MCWP 3-33.5, Counterinsurgency (December 2006): ix, 1-4; hereinafter cited as FM 3-24.
15. FM 3-24, pp. 1-27, 1-28. In all likelihood, Petraeus himself is the author of the paradoxes. They bear a close similarity to the lessons enumerated in “Learning Counterinsurgency,” an article that Petraeus contributed to the journal Military Review in January–February 2006.
16. Col. David Petraeus et al., “Why We Need FISTs—Never Send a Man When You Can Send a Bullet,” Field Artillery Journal (May–June 1997): 3–5.
17. FM 3-24, pp. 1-29, 2-2.
18. FM 3-24, p. 1-21.
19. Indeed, ample precedent exists for putting civilians in charge: In 1900, with the recently annexed Philippine Islands racked by an insurgency, President William McKinley appointed William Howard Taft, a federal judge without military experience, to direct U.S. efforts to pacify the archipelago. American generals in the Philippines took their orders, however unenthusiastically, from Taft.
20. William B. Caldwell, “FM 3-07, Stability Operations: Upshifting the Engine of Change,” Military Review (July–August 2008), http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0PBZ/is_4_88/ai_n28048846/.