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The Insurgents by Fred Kaplan5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Amid the crisis, they forged a community (some of them called it a cabal or mafia) and adapted their enemies’ techniques to overhaul the culture and institutions of their own Army.įred Kaplan describes how these men and women maneuvered the idea through the bureaucracy and made it official policy. McMaster, and others-many of them classmates or colleagues in West Point’s Social Science Department who rose through the ranks, seized with an idea of how to fight these wars better. But the main insurgency is the one mounted at home by ambitious, self-consciously intellectual officers-Petraeus, John Nagl, H. ![]() ![]() These would be wars not only of fighting but of “nation building,” often not of necessity but of choice.īased on secret documents, private emails, and interviews with more than one hundred key characters, including Petraeus, the tale unfolds against the backdrop of the wars against insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan. Their aim was to build a new Army that could fight the new kind of war in the post–Cold War age: not massive wars on vast battlefields, but “small wars” in cities and villages, against insurgents and terrorists. ![]() The Insurgents is the inside story of the small group of soldier-scholars, led by General David Petraeus, who plotted to revolutionize one of the largest, oldest, and most hidebound institutions-the United States military. ![]()
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