“The Fourth Star”: How our generals got to be that way
CNAS is gonna hold a huge party for the publication of The Fourth Star, a book about four important contemporary Army generals: Petraeus, Casey, Chiarelli, and Abizaid. You can attend the event on the evening of Oct. 13 and even get a free glass of wine, but you have to RSVP here. I’ve read the ...
CNAS is gonna hold a huge party for the publication of The Fourth Star, a book about four important contemporary Army generals: Petraeus, Casey, Chiarelli, and Abizaid.
CNAS is gonna hold a huge party for the publication of The Fourth Star, a book about four important contemporary Army generals: Petraeus, Casey, Chiarelli, and Abizaid.
You can attend the event on the evening of Oct. 13 and even get a free glass of wine, but you have to RSVP here.
I’ve read the book and highly recommend it. One anecdote alone, about then-Col. John Abrams suborning then-Lt. Col Peter Chiarelli to get his soldiers to cheat in a NATO tank gunnery competition, is worth the price of the book.
(I e-mailed Gen. Abrams yesterday to ask him about this episode, but haven’t heard back.)
Thomas E. Ricks is a former contributing editor to Foreign Policy. Twitter: @tomricks1
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