Retired General and Former CIA Director

David Petraeus

1 article 2007

David Petraeus is a retired four-star U.S. Army general who served as commander of U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan and later as Director of the CIA. He contributed to The Weekly Standard in 2007, writing about the central front in the war on terror during his command of the Iraq surge.

'The Central Front'

May 7, 2007 · Magazine, Editorials

On April 26, around the same time the Senate passed a war spending bill containing a timetable for withdrawal from Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus, the commander of Multi-National Force-Iraq, delivered an impressive briefing on the state of the war to reporters at the Pentagon. Petraeus said his remarks…