paula broadwell and vernon loeb and their new book, "all in: the education of general david petraeus. general petraeus has become a prominent world war general since world war ii, and while he has already been a subject of several books, paula was given unusual access to him and has brought his story of to date. as paula writes early in the book, one of petraeus' important mentors general jack alvan talked to him about the concept of what galvin called the big "m" which stood for individual mystique ornithology. the idea, as galvin, explained, is the troops need to be able to make their commanders bigger than they are coming to magnify them. patton had his pistols and grenades, grant, his cigars. petraeus stood out as the epitome of the soldier scholar. intellectually, he is famous for being the lead author of the army's doctrine of counterinsurgency warfare. on the battlefield, he is credited with turning things around in iraq following president bush's decision at the end of 2006 to surge the u.s. forces and faced a similar challenge in afghanistan during the year of command between