nagl was one of these people.meanwhile, petraeus singh and leavenworth, he knows a lot of these people who were at this conference, some of them were his students or his colleagues, people have been under his command. and he decides can one thing is going to do and leavenworth is right a new counterinsurgency field manual for the army. there hadn't been one for 20 years. and he draws on this group from the basin harbor conference to be his inner circle, to be his aide, to the people who helped him write this conference. in other words, outside the usual channels within the army. so for things happen at the end of 2006. one, this midterm election, democrats when, bush fires rumsfeld, hires robert gates. two, it's an as petraeus we going back to iraq as the top commander. number three, bush announces that he is ordering a surge of troops in iraq. sending another 20,000 troops. and number four, that he is changing strategy essentially a counterinsurgency strategy. he calls it clear, hold, and build, an old phrase bec