Fellow Gregory A. Daddis breaks down the falsehoods and self-promotion featured in a Foreign Affairs opinion piece authored by David Petraeus, Harvard Kennedy School professor Meghan L. O’Sullivan and Richard Fontaine, the CEO of the Center for a New American Security.
Read his full response in Responsible Statecraft here.
In reality, [the opinion piece] Petraeus and his co-authors penned was an example of why a lessons-based approach to history is wrongheaded at best and dangerous at worst. It also highlights how, nearly 15 years after U.S. troops departed Iraq, the retired general still aspires to both control and revise the narrative over America’s disastrous intervention in Middle Eastern affairs.
Col. Gregory A. Daddis
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