137 Quotes by David Petraeus

Leaders of the various Iraqi elements will likely have their own militias, and there will be endless rounds of brinkmanship on the road to post-Islamic State boundaries, governing structures, and distribution of power and resources.

The proximate cause of Iraq's unraveling was the increasing authoritarian, sectarian, and corrupt conduct of the Iraqi government and its leader after the departure of the last U.S. combat forces in 2011.

In counterinsurgency operations, the human terrain is the decisive terrain.

Folks really need to be very cautious about overanalyzing or overparsing what I've said to this reporter or that reporter.

There is not a military commander alive today who is genetically predisposed to say that he has enough ISR and assets, and particularly not in the Central Command theater.

I am not going to second-guess my old battlefield comrades from Iraq and Afghanistan; each has his own reason for what he has done.

Counter-insurgency, as you know, is a roller-coaster affair.

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Iraq does have many, many different tensions.