US/IRAQ: Petraeus will struggle to execute Bush plan
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- Petraeus's brief
- Previous Iraq experience
- Counter-insurgency expertise
- Stabilising Bosnia
- Revised counter-insurgency doctrine
- Tactical implications
- Higher-risk strategy
- Covering reconstruction
- New rhetoric
- Looming strategic pitfalls
- Misconceived threat?
- Insurgent motives?
- High risk appointment
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