The Rise and Fall of Stanley McChrystal

Strategy
As a commander in Afghanistan, one of McChrystal's first moves was to place strict limits on aerial attacks in combat situations. "Afghans take huge offense at the killing of civilians," he says. "They assume we are omniscient and omnipotent, so if we bomb innocent civilians, they assume that was our intent."

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