"Just because General Stanley McChrystal lost his job as commander in Afghanistan doesn’t mean a key member of his team is out as well. Major General Michael Flynn, the head of intelligence operations for the NATO war effort, will stay on, Danger Room has learned. “Major General Flynn is going to stay and be General Petraeus’s top intel officer,” says Colonel Erik Gunhus, Petraeus’s spokesman.
Maybe that shouldn’t be surprising. Flynn (pictured, above and right) wasn’t a factor in the Rolling Stone profile that doomed McChrystal’s career. And he’s challenged military intelligence officers to study the Afghan civilian populace as much as the insurgency. (Though in some cases, that appears to be a low baseline.) That’s consistent with Petraeus’s perspective that “the human terrain is the decisive terrain,” a jargon-y way of saying that the Afghan people will decide who wins the war...."
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