Paula Broadwell - All In: The Education of General David Petraeus

ALL IN

THE EDUCATION OF

GENERAL DAVID PETRAEUS

PAULA BROADWELL

WITH VERNON LOEB

THE PENGUIN PRESS

New York

2012

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Broadwell, Paula.

All in : the education of General David Petraeus / Paula Broadwell with Vernon Loeb.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-101-55230-8

1. Petraeus, David Howell. 2. GeneralsUnited StatesBiography. 3. United States. ArmyBiography. 4. Iraq War, 2003Biography. I. Loeb, Vernon. II. Title. III. Title: Education of General David Petraeus.

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T O MY THREE FAVORITE TROOPERS ,
S COTT, L UCIEN AND L ANDON BROADWELL,
AND TO THOSE WHO SERVE

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Ulysses

This isnt double down, Mr. President. Its all in.

General David Petraeus to President George W. Bush in the Oval Office, January 23, 2007, on the eve of the surge in Iraq

CONTENTS

ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS

ABP Afghan Border Police

A-CAAT Afghan Counterinsurgency Advisory and Assistance Team

ALP Afghan Local Police program

ANA Afghan National Army

ANP Afghan National Police

ANSF Afghan National Security Forces

APRP Afghan Peace and Reintegration Program

BCT brigade combat team

CAAT Counterinsurgency Advisory and Assistance Team

CENTCOM U.S. Central Command

CERP Commanders Emergency Response Program

CFSOCCA Combined Forces Special Operations Component CommandAfghanistan

CIA Central Intelligence Agency

CIED counterimprovised explosive device

CIG Commanders Initiatives Group

CINC commander in chief

CJCS Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

CJIATF Combined Joint Interagency Task Force

CNAS Center for a New American Security

CODEL congressional delegation

COIN counterinsurgency

COMISAF Commander, International Security Assistance Force Afghanistan

CORDS Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support

CPN criminal patronage network

DHS U.S. Department of Homeland Security

DOD U.S. Department of Defense

EKIA enemy killed in action

EOD explosive ordnance disposal

FAO foreign area officer

FATA Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Pakistan)

FOB forward operating base

GIRoA Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan

GMIC Government Media and Information Center

GOVN Government of the Republic of Vietnam

GPS Global Positioning System

HASC House Armed Services Committee

HQN Haqqani network

ICG International Crisis Group

IED improvised explosive device

IJC ISAF Joint Command

INL Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs

ISAF International Security Assistance Force

ISR Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance

JRTC Joint Readiness Training Center

JSOC Joint Special Operations Command

KIA killed in action

MEDEVAC medical evacuation

MLRS Multiple Launch Rocket System

MNSTCI Multi-National Security Transition CommandIraq

MOI Ministry of the Interior

MRAP Mine-Resistant Ambush-Protected vehicle

NAC North Atlantic Council

NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization

NCO noncommissioned officer

NDS National Directorate of Security (Afghan)

NGO nongovernmental organization

NOFORN no foreign nationals

NROLFSM NATO Rule of Law Field Support Mission

NSA National Security Agency

NSC National Security Council

NSS National Security Staff

NTC National Training Center

NTMA NATO Training MissionAfghanistan

ODA (Special Forces) Operational Detachment Alpha

OP observation post

OSD Office of the Secretary of Defense

OTAN Organisation du Trait de lAtlantique Nord

PICC Palace Information Coordination Center

PID positive identification

POTUS President of the United States

PRT Provincial Reconstruction Team

PTDS Persistent Threat Detection System

RC Regional Command

ROLFFA Rule of Law Field ForceAfghanistan

SASC Senate Armed Services Committee

SEAL Sea, Air, Land teams

SHAPE Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe

SIGACTS significant activities

SMU Special Mission Unit

SOCOM Special Operations Command

SOTF Special Operations Task Force

SRAP Special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan

TBI traumatic brain injury

TF task force

UAV unmanned aerial vehicle

UNAMA United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan

USAID U.S. Agency for International Development

VTC video teleconference

VSO Village Stability Operations

WIA wounded in action

CAST OF CHARACTERS

David M. Axelrod: White House senior adviser.

Joseph Biden: Vice president of the United States (January 2009present).

Lieutenant General James Bucknall: ISAF deputy commanding general at ISAF headquarters.

Lieutenant General William B. Caldwell: Commander, NATO Training MissionAfghanistan; commander, Combined Security Transition CommandAfghanistan (November 2009present).

David Cameron: Prime minister of the United Kingdom.

Major General John F. Campbell: Commander, ISAF Regional Command East (June 2010May 2011); 101st Airborne Division commander. Promoted to lieutenant general in September 2011.

Hillary Clinton: U.S. secretary of State (January 2009present).

Ryan C. Crocker: Ambassador to Iraq during Petraeuss time therehis civil-military wingman in Iraqand now ambassador to Afghanistan.

Karim Dad: Malik of Khosrow Sofla village in Arghandab District, Kandahar Province.