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21. Steven Lee Myers, “Deadly Blasts Rock Shiite Mosque in Baghdad,” New York Times, September 12, 2009, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/13/world/middleeast/13iraq.html.
22. Elisabeth Bumiller, “General Sees a Longer Stay in Iraq Cities for U.S. Troops,” New York Times, May 8, 2009, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/09/world/middleeast/09military.html?_r=1.
23. FM 3-24, p. 1-14.
24. Frederick W. Kagan and Kimberly Kagan, “The Patton of Counterinsurgency,” Weekly Standard 13 (March 10, 2008), http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/014/
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25. Jeffrey Bell, “The Petraeus Promotion,” Weekly Standard, May 5, 2008, http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/015/038lzirr.asp.
26. FM 3-24, p. x.
27. “Petraeus Cites Areas of Improvement in Baghdad,” PBS NewsHour, April 4, 2007, http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/middle_east/jan-june07/petraeus_04-04.html.
28. Quoted in Barbara Tuchman, The March to Folly: From Troy to Vietnam (New York, 1985), p. 326.
29. Walter LaFeber, America, Russia, and the Cold War (New York, 1976), p. 100.
30. Address at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Convention, Phoenix, Arizona, August 17, 2009, http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/remarks-by-the-president-at-the-veterans-of-foreign-wars-convention/.
31. The quotations come from Nagl’s foreword to the University of Chicago Press edition of FM 3-24, p. ix.
32. John Kerry, “A New Approach to Fighting Terrorism,” July 31, 2008, speech delivered at the Center for American Progress, http://www.americanprogressaction.org/issues/2008/kerry_event.html.
33. Bruce Hoffman, “Terrorism’s Twelve Step Program,” The National Interest Online, January 13, 2009, http://www.nationalinterest.org/Article.aspx?id=20592.
34. Bennet Sacolick, “Character and the Special Forces Soldier,” Special Warfare (January–February 2009): 8–9.
35. Daniel S. Roper, “Global Counterinsurgency: Strategic Clarity for the Long War,” Parameters (Autumn 2008): 106.
36. Figures are taken from The CIA World Factbook, https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ym.html.
37. “Obama Approves Afghanistan Troop Increase,” February 18, 2009, http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/17/obama.troops/index.html.
38. Ann Scott Tyson, “Top U.S. Commander in Afghanistan Is Fired,” Washington Post, May 12, 2009, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/11/AR2009051101864.html.
39. Dexter Filkins, “Stanley McChrystal’s Long War,” New York Times Magazine, October 14, 2009, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/18/magazine/18Afghanistan-t.html?ref=magazine.
40. Evan Thomas, “McChrystal’s War,” Newsweek, October 5, 2009, http://www.newsweek.com/id/216237.
41. Mark Thompson, “A New General, and a New War, in Afghanistan,” Time, July 10, 2009, http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599?,1909261-1,00.html.
42. These included Stephen Biddle and Max Boot of the Council on Foreign Relations, Anthony Cordesman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Frederick Kagan of the American Enterprise Institute, and John Nagl of the Center for a New American Security.
43. Lou Dobbs Tonight, November 2, 2009, http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0911/02/ldt.01.html.
44. Frederick W. Kagan and Kimberly Kagan, “The Cost of Dithering,” Weekly Standard, November 11, 2009, http://weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/017/197pvvru.asp?pg=1.
45. The complete text of “COMISAF’s Initial Assessment,” August 30, 2009, is at http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/documents/Assessment_Redacted_092109.pdf?sid=ST2009092003140.
46. Gen. Barry McCaffrey speaking on Meet the Press, October 11, 2009, http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/10/11/senators_levin__graham
_generals_myers__mccaffrey_on_meet_the_press_98669.html.
47. John F. Burns and Alan Cowell, “McChrystal Rejects Lower Afghan War Aims,” New York Times, October 1, 2009, http://www.iiss.org/whats-new/iiss-in-the-press/october-2009/mcchrystal-rejects-lower-afghan-aims/.
48. Alessandra Stanley, “Situation Report: The Dilemma of Afghanistan,