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...That might involve a conventional military attack that destroys Russia’s Black Sea fleet, as retired CIA director and army general David Petraeus suggested on Sunday....
...But more than that, you know, there’s got to be an overall calculus, as in the [Richard] Nixon case, about the good of the country.”...
...Wilson Sonsini has hired Richard Goold as a corporate partner in its London office. He was previously global head of tech law for Ernst & Young....
...According to the diaries of Richard Holbrooke, the state department’s top Afghan hand in 2009-10, partially published in a 2019 biography by George Packer, Biden believed the US military had been given a...
...Opinion: Many judge tech chief executives by their pioneering work but Apple’s sales success alone is enough to vindicate Tim Cook, argues Richard Waters. 2....
...To lead all this on the ground, Mr Hannam turned to the SAS, bringing in the former commanding officer of the main operational regiment, Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Williams of 22 SAS regiment, as Centar’...
...Colin Powell, Wesley Clark and David Petraeus have either tried or been touted for high office....
...Sir Richard Barrons, who led Britain’s Joint Forces Command until last year, makes a similar point....
...It is now likely that more experienced and respected figures — such as General David Petraeus — will move into the vacancies left by Mr Flynn’s departure....
...Mr Petraeus’s remarks run counter to the views of former MI6 chief Sir Richard Dearlove, who said last week there could be security gains from an exit....
...The Petraeus warning comes after Richard Dearlove, the former head of the British intelligence service MI6, wrote in Prospect magazine that Brexit would not have much effect on security at all — and could...
...David Petraeus, the former head of the CIA, said that in the aftermath of a deal there would be a “tug of war” over foreign policy between what he calls the Iranian “deep state” of the IRGC and the Quds...
...Mr Rothkopf pointed to the loss of experienced hands from the first Obama administration with lengthy experience in calibrating military missions offshore – Robert Gates from the Pentagon and David Petraeus...
...One by one, the Obama administration has wheeled out the big guns of the military and the civilian national security state, such as David Petraeus, the general, and Robert Gates, a defence secretary under...
...Mr Petraeus is married to Holly Petraeus, assistant director for service member affairs at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau....
...They traced the emails to Paula Broadwell, a former military officer who wrote a biography of Mr Petraeus, and also found evidence of an affair between Mr Petraeus and Ms Broadwell....
...Mr Petraeus has since resigned after admitting to having an affair....
...In May, Best Buy pushed out Brian Dunn, its former chief executive, for becoming overfamiliar with an employee and then Richard Schulze, its chairman, for not telling the board....
...The FT’s Geoff Dyer and Richard McGregor discuss the FBI and how the scandal has left it under attack from all sides – for withholding its investigation from Congress and for delving into private matters...
...Replacing Mrs Clinton is one part of a broad overhaul of the national security team, a task made more complex by the unexpected departure last week of David Petraeus from the CIA....
...David Petraeus’s abrupt departure from the Central Intelligence Agency means that Mr Obama will also have to fill that position, something that he had not envisaged doing until late last week....
...Bush’s foreign policy adviser, and David Petraeus, the military leader from Iraq and Afghanistan who now heads the CIA....
...As head of the CIA, Gen Petraeus would lead the US fight against al-Qaeda militants in Pakistan, a campaign spearheaded by CIA drone attacks....
...Indeed differences camps almost mirror those in Washington, with Obama and Cameron pitted against the Two Davids (Petraeus and Richards) over the pace and timing of withdrawal....
...Richard Holbrooke, US special envoy, said the meeting heard “a very encouraging” report from General David Petraeus, commander of the 150,000-strong US and Nato forces in Afghanistan, focused on the “transition...
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