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The Commander: An Interview with Gen. David Petraeus

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Education, History, News

4.41.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2016

⏱️ 46 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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That's spycloud.com slash cyberwire and we thank spy cloud for sponsoring our show. Hi and welcome to Spycast. From the Secret Files of the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C. I'm Dr. Vince Houghton. at the Museum

1:35.0

Museum in Washington, D.C. I'm Dr. Vince Houghton, the museum's historian and curator.

1:37.0

Every week, the museum brings you interesting conversations with authors, scholars, and

1:41.8

practitioners who live in the world of global espionage.

1:46.4

Join us as we take a closer look at the secret world of intelligence. We're joined today by General David Petraeus, a retired four-star general who spent

1:58.8

over 37 years as an Army officer.

2:01.1

General Petraeus served as commanding general multinational force Iraq from

2:04.4

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

2:09.9

Then he served as commander U.S. Central Command from October 08 to June 2010 and later as

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

2:19.2

from July 2010 to July 2011.

2:22.0

It was then that President Obama nominated him to become the next

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director of the Central Intelligence Agency, where he served from September 2011 until

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November 2012. Thank you, General Petraeus, for taking the time to talk to us here at

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