over three or four decades so i could see the lieutenant it general petraeus written to general jack alvan and talking about in the 1978 or 79 this is how the military needs to balance heavy and light forces for example. after he visited in central america he writes the only way to change in our means to change its doctrine and i will do that someday. in fact they had a small competition going on between the two and as brad diluted, this m mystique in the general galvin with big m and little m so if you ever see them called little m you'll know what they are talking about. but these letters the exchange are very candid and general petraeus had the thinking about the organization of the military, about the grand strategy in u.s. foreign policy. not all of that made it into the book. it ended up on the cutting room floor that may be in my dissertation if i ever finish. you can see what he was thinking back in afghanistan how it was playing out. so, in the summer of june, 2010, when general mcchrystal and the landstuhl article will not i remember sitting on the couch and watching the faces fl