The Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War

Based on previously unavailable documents and interviews with more than one hundred key players, including General David Petraeus, The Insurgents
unfolds against the backdrop of two wars waged against insurgencies in
Iraq and Afghanistan. But the main insurgency is the one led at home by
a new generation of officers-including Petraeus, John Nagl, David
Kilcullen, and H. R. McMaster-who were seized with an idea on how to
fight these kinds of "small wars" and who adapted their enemies'
techni...