Independent historian and journalist Gareth Porter discusses the limits of America’s awesome military might when it comes to fighting insurgencies in Iraq and Afghanistan; Iraq’s brutal sectarian civil war in 2006-2007; how the US helped increase Iranian influence in Iraq; and Gen. Petraeus’s influence on COIN doctrine and the “victory in defeat” PR campaign.
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