When Paula Broadwell first met David Petraeus in 2006, she was a soldier-turned-graduate student at Harvard University. The acclaimed U.S. Army general gave her his card and offered to help her ...

Paula Broadwell, a native of Bismarck and a graduate of Century High School, followed Gen. David Petraeus to Afghanistan in the summer of 2010 to write her new book, “All ...

In Bob Woodward’s book, Obama’s Wars, it appears that much of the pressure to launch the Afghanistan surge, and spend the last few years there as we have, was the direct result of Petraeus ...

Thus, in December 2010, Obama becomes LBJ in December 1967, when Gen. William Westmoreland, with 500,000 troops in Vietnam, came to the White House to ask for 200,000 more.

Later, Petraeus served as the commanding officer of U.S. Central Command, which coordinates the military's operations across 20 countries in the Arabian Gulf region and central Asia.

General David Petraeus, Commanding General of U.S. Forces in Iraq, and U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, Ryan Crocker, testified Tuesday morning to the Senate Armed Services Committee on the current ...