General David Petraeus

General David Petraeus

Army Lieutenant General David Petraeus is President Bush's choice to lead his new plan for Iraq which includes a surge of 21,000 more U.S. troops to the Persian Gulf.

 
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The commander of the U.S. Central Command says a decision is near on sending more American forces to Afghanistan. Gen. David Petraeus spoke to CNN on Wednesday shortly before heading into a meeting with President Barack Obama and his war council about a new strategy in the 9-year-old Afghan conflict. Petraeus said the question of an increase in troops would be discussed at the meeting. He said, "I think we are indeed nearing a decision on this very important topic." The White House says that Obama, who leaves Thursday for an extended trip to Asia, has not made up his mind and is unlikely ... Read Full Story
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The head of the U.S. Central Command said Friday the nation needs a new generation of civilian "world changers" who can help bolster the troubled economy, fix the health care crisis and tackle other pressing challenges in the future. "Now, more than ever, our nation needs leaders and world changers in its civilian ranks," Army Gen. David Petraeus said during a commencement speech for the 38 graduates of Georgia Gwinnett College, a suburban Atlanta liberal arts school that opened in 2006. "The many pressing challenges we face — from reviving the economy to overcoming poverty, from achieving renewable energy to improving American education — ... Read Full Story
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The official Yemeni news agency says the top U.S. commander in the Middle East is pledging American support to fight terrorism in the troubled Arabian peninsula country. Gen. David Petraeus met Sunday with President Ali Abdellah Saleh. The news agency, Saba, quoting a presidential statement, said Petraeus assured Saleh of U.S. support "to enhance security and stability" in Yemen and in the whole region. Saleh is facing a vigorous southern secessionist movement and a tribal Shiite rebellion in the north that has raised concern in his government's abilities to control all of its territory and prevent al-Qaida from using Yemen as a safe haven ... Read Full Story
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  Here is how this is supposed to work. Our United States commanders on the ground in a war zone will tell the president when it will be okay to start troop withdrawal in a time of war. It is not up to politicians sitting at home to tell the president how to run the war and pass timetable for defeat just for political gain. These same politicians, if they felt strongly about it, could simply cut off the money to fund the war. They won’t, they are afraid to. So instead they have tried 41 times now to pass a bill requiring the president to ... Read Full Story
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The top U.S. military commander in Iraq testified Tuesday that troop levels there should return to "pre-surge" levels this summer, but the military should gauge conditions before making further decisions. There has been "significant but uneven progress," Petraeus said, but recent violence shows the progress is "fragile and reversible." "The situation in certain areas is still unsatisfactory and innumerable challenges remain," he said. http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/04/08/iraq.hearing/index.html After the 20,000 troops sent during last year's surge are withdrawn, by July, the military should wait 45 days before deciding on more reductions, Gen. David Petraeus told the Senate Armed Services Committee. "This approach does not ... Read Full Story
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Lieutenant General David H. Petraeus assumed command of the U.S. Army Combined Arms Center and Fort Leavenworth on October 20th, 2005 following deployment in Iraq as the first commander of the Multi-National Security Transition Command Iraq, which he led from June 2004 to September 2005, and the NATO Training Mission Iraq, which he commanded from October 2004 to September 2005. Prior to that deployment, he commanded the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), leading the "Screaming Eagles" in combat during the first year of Operation Iraqi Freedom. His command of the 101st followed a year deployed on Operation Joint Forge in Bosnia, where he was the Assistant Chief of Staff for Operations of the NATO Stabilization Force and the Deputy Commander of the US Joint Interagency Counter-Terrorism Task Force - Bosnia. Prior to his tour in Bosnia, he spent two years at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, serving first as the Assistant Division Commander for Operations of the 82nd Airborne Division and then as the Chief of Staff of XVIII Airborne Corps.

Lieutenant General Petraeus was commissioned in the Infantry upon graduation from the United States Military Academy in 1974. He has held leadership positions in airborne, mechanized, and air assault infantry units in Europe, the Middle East, and the United States, including command of a battalion in the 101st Airborne Division and a brigade in the 82nd Airborne Division. In addition, he has held a number of staff assignments: Aide to the Chief of Staff of the Army; service as a battalion, brigade, and division operations officer; Military Assistant to the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe; Chief of Operations of the United Nations Force in Haiti; and Executive Assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Lieutenant General Petraeus was the General George C. Marshall Award winner as the top graduate of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College Class of 1983. He subsequently earned MPA and Ph.D. degrees in international relations from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, and later served as an Assistant Professor of International Relations at the US Military Academy. He also completed a fellowship at Georgetown University.

Awards and decorations earned by General Petraeus include the Defense Distinguished Service Medal, the Distinguished Service Medal, two awards of the Defense Superior Service Medal, four awards of the Legion of Merit, the Bronze Star Medal for valor, the State Department Superior Honor Award, the NATO Meritorious Service Medal, and the Gold Award of the Iraqi Order of the Date Palm. He is a Master Parachutist and is Air Assault and Ranger qualified. He has also earned the Combat Action Badge and French, British, and German Jump Wings. In the fall of 2005, he was recognized by the U.S. News and World Report as one of America's 25 Best Leaders.

LTG Petraeus and his wife have two children, a son and a daughter.

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Previously, I've argued that even if General David Petraeus does have political ambitions there are any number of obstacles that might make it difficult for him to make a successful bid for the Presidency. All those points still stand. Nevertheless, it's worth noting that the CENTCOM commander is this year's recipient of the American Enterprise Institute's annual Irving Kristol Award and that he'll be AEI's guest of honour at its annual dinner...  
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Presented by the National Defense University Foundation with Special Remarks by Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.), General Ann Dunwoody, USA, and General John Rogers Galvin, USA (Ret) WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On Friday, nearly 630 people gathered to honor...  
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Washington, Nov.15 (ANI): US Central Command chief General David Petraeus has said that while the Pakistan Army has gained substantial success against the Taliban in South Waziristan, it should make serious efforts to hold onto the captured territories. “Pakistan should put the cleared territories under a senior Corps Commander for post-conflict vigilance and rebuilding to [...]  
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Today, in response to some prodding from CNN, General David Petraeus once again denied any intention to run for president in 2012. Instead, going all William Tecumseh Sherman on us — too obvious? — Petraeus borrows a line from that "great country song" by Lorrie Morgan: "'What about no don't you understand." [Political Ticker/CNN] Read more posts by Dan AmiraFiled Under: it's never too early to start talking about 2012, david...  
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Gen. David Petraeus, who as head of U.S. Central Command oversees the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, joked about his health on Tuesday as his office revealed his successful treatment for prostate cancer. Petraeus, 56, was diagnosed with early-stage ...  
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