it's with great pleasure i get to welcome general peter mansoor, author of "surge" which would be one of the key books about the iraq war. deep, deep research and, of course, general mansoor was so

eastern on c-span3. >> in his book "surge", peter mansoor talked about how the u.s. military strategy shifted in iraq war. and how was executed in the army and earnings per the author talked about his book at the new america foundation in washington dc. this is an hour and a half. >> welcome. i'm part of the security program here. with great pressure that i get to welcome the author of this stunning new book. one of the key books about the iraq war. and we have so much of the key events with the real history and an element. he was executive officer to general petraeus and he has a phd in military history at ohio state. so we are pleased to have you here. and as he gives his presentation we will have a part of this. and we will produce some responses with the operational studies with the u.s. army. he is studying for his phd at texas a&m and i think the part of the american experience and i'm really pleased to have both of you here. we're happy he's giving this presentation now. >> 10 or 20 years down the road i wrote yesterday about the iraq worker but a couple of ye

it's with great pleasure i get to welcome general peter mansoor, author of "surge" which would be one of the key books about the iraq war. deep, deep research and, of course, general mansoor was so much -- a real history but also an element, a memoir. colonel mansoor is a professor at ohio state. he was executive officer to general petraeus. he has a ph.d and holds the raymond mason chair and military history at ohio state. happy to have you. after colonel mansoor to this presentation we will have joel rayburn, a long front of the american foundation who was sort of produced some responses to what colonel mansoor says. is writing an opera study of the iraq war for the u.s. army. he's also studying for his ph.d at texas a&m university. we are really pleased that both of you here so welcome to both of you. colonel mansoor will give his presentation at the podium now. thank you. >> thank you, peter, for that kind introduction, and thank you all for coming today. i really appreciate the new america foundation sponsoring this talk. i was not going to write this book. i retired from militar