Nat Geo's 'American War Generals': A sad tale wrapped around a big contradiction

in the news | October 02, 2014

Peter Bergen, Thomas E. Ricks:

If this was the greatest army in history, why was it unable to prevail in Afghanistan and Iraq?

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