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Surge Worked in Iraq, But Beware Afghanistan

By Harry Kimball,  Newser Staff

Posted May 12, 2009 5:52 PM CDT

(Newser) – A new book on the surge in Iraq could offer lessons to the Obama administration about Afghanistan, Dexter Filkins writes in the New Republic. Thomas E. Ricks’ The Gamble details the success of a small band of contrarian US generals, led by David Petraeus, in...   Read full story »

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