Odierno, The Dissenter

Millions may owe their lives to the courage of General Ray Odierno, and the Washington Post’s portrait of him is a must-read. Odierno, once the commander of a division that earned infamy for the mass search and detention tactics that probably recruited thousands of insurgents, came to be an indispensable proponent of the counterinsurgency tactics that pacified them, and which may have saved Iraq from becoming the next Cambodia.