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By David Ignatius | Thursday, September 13, 2007 | The Washington Post

The “…bottom-up style of Petraeus and his group represents a decisive break with the cocksure, top-down ethos of Donald Rumsfeld’s Pentagon — and with a military leadership that bought into Rumsfeld’s idea that technology had transformed the nature of warfare itself. Nonsense, said the colonels who advised Petraeus, many of whom, like him, are on their third tours in Iraq. They have learned the hard way to be skeptical of big ideas. Petraeus and his team understand, too, that this war is about people — and helping them one by one to break the cycle of intimidation….”…BS

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