Sentence examples for commanded the wars from inspiring English sources

On the other is Col. Michael J. Meese, the head of the academy's influential social sciences department and a top adviser to General Petraeus in Baghdad and Kabul when General Petraeus commanded the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Just 11 days before the 10th anniversary of Osama Bin Laden's attacks on New York and Washington, General Petraeus also implicitly cautioned that the United States should not abandon the troop-intensive and expensive counterinsurgency doctrine that was his hallmark when he commanded the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

He also claimed to have served in Operation Iraqi Freedom, to have "commanded the war room" at the Pentagon, to be a veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and to have come under fire while flying over Iraq.

We command the war flight paths.

As with JSOC, McChrystal would command the war and Flynn would run its intelligence shop.

General Petraeus commands the war from a lakeside palace built by Saddam Hussein in 1992.

Last Friday, Gen. Tommy R. Franks, who is commanding the war in Iraq, took time to visit United States forces at Bagram Air Base outside Kabul.

I never anticipated the extramarital affair between David H. Petraeus and Paula Broadwell, the woman I'd worked with for 16 months on a book about Petraeus's year commanding the war in Afghanistan.

And 56% believed he could properly command the war on terrorism.

Mr. Limbaugh has played an important role in elections going back to 1994, when he commanded the air war in the Republican Congressional victory.

John Allen, a retired marine general who commanded the Afghanistan war from 2011 to 2013, called on Barack Obama to order the destruction of Isis.