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From the Vault: The SpyCast conversation with Gen. David Petraeus

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Education, News, History

4.41.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

SPY Historian Vince Houghton sat down with retired 4-star general David Petraeus, former Commanding General, Multi-National Force – Iraq; Commander, US Central Command; commander of the International Security Assistance Force and Commander, US Forces Afghanistan; and Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, where he served from September, 2011, until November, 2012.

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Its challenges, its benefits, and first-hand experiences from experts at, for example,

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0:53.0

I highly recommend episode 2 called You Can't Automate Cultural Change.

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I found it very interesting.

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1:06.7

My thanks to Code Comments for their support. Hi and welcome to Spycast. From the secret Files of the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C.

1:25.2

I'm Dr. Vince Houghton, the Museum's historian and curator. Every week, the museum brings you

1:31.3

interesting conversations with authors, scholars, and practitioners who live in the world of global espionage.

1:39.0

Join us as we take a closer look at the secret world of intelligence.

1:42.8

We're joined today by General David Petraeus, a retired four-star general who spent

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over 37 years as an Army officer.

1:53.4

General Petraeus served as commanding general multinational force Iraq from February

1:57.5

2007 to September 2008. In this role he oversaw all coalition forces in Iraq.

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Then he started his commander, U.S. Central Command from October 08 to June 2010,

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and later as commander of the International Security Assistance Force and commander U.S. Forces Afghanistan

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