we had sarah sewall as one of the initial sponsors, she contributed to the manual as well, people from the human rights community, academia, the media. when we had our major vetting conference, jim fowler was there, tom ricks was involved many some of the early stuff. we tried to get a lot of people involve in giving us their ideas on how to better fight these kinds of wars. a lot of help from think tanks, rand, a number of others like that who also gave us their input. but in the end, it was going to be the army and the ma reap corps authors -- marine corps authors who really formatted this. general petraeus was really -- he read every word. i massaged everything. he was the last guy to look at it before it went out for general view to the forces. still have ptsd over what i call petraeus pronouns. if any of you are writing papers and he used the phrase this is or it is, i still have precedent and antecedent nightmares. he said, oh, i'm not that hard an editor. yeah, dave, you are. the intent was to be applicable to counterinsurgencies anywhere anytime. but 2006 version especially end