LESSONS ENCOUNTERED

Hoffman and Crowther
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Nathan White, “Challenges to Adaptation of U.S. Assessment Practices for Counterinsurgency
in Afghanistan,” International Studies Association conference paper, New
Orleans, LA, March 2015.
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Petraeus, interview.
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James G. Stavridis, The Accidental Admiral (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press,
2014), 64.
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Frank G. Hoffman, “Dereliction of Duty Redux? Post-Iraq American Civil-Military
Relations,” Orbis 52, no. 2 (Spring 2008), 217–235.
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Casey, Strategic Reflections, 165.
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Janine Davidson, “The Contemporary Presidency: Civil-Military Friction and Presidential
Decision Making: Explaining the Broken Dialogue,” Presidential Studies Quarterly 43,
no. 1 (March 2013), 129–145.
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Linda Robinson et al., Improving Strategic Competence, Lessons from 13 Years of War
(Santa Monica, CA: RAND, October 2014).
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General Martin E. Dempsey, interview by Richard D. Hooker, Jr., and Joseph J. Collins,
January 7, 2015.
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Flournoy, interview.
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Colin S. Gray, The Strategy Bridge: Theory for Practice (New York: Oxford University
Press, 2010).
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Dempsey, interview.
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Hadley, interview.
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Dempsey, interview; reinforced in both Flournoy and Lute, interviews.
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Dempsey, interview.
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“Admiral Mike Mullen’s Speech on Military Strategy, Kansas State University, March
2010,” Manhattan, KS, March 3, 2010, available at .
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Dempsey, interview.
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Dempsey, interview.
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Petraeus, interview; Dempsey, interview.
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Ali Khedery, “Why We Stuck With Maliki—and Lost Iraq,” Washington Post, July 3,
2014.
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Emile Simpson, War from the Ground Up: Twenty-First Century Combat as Politics (New
York: Oxford University Press, 2012).
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“Admiral Mike Mullen’s Speech”; Thom Shanker, “Joint Chiefs Chairman Readjusts
Principles on Use of Force,” New York Times, March 3, 2010.
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Ibid.
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