Comments on: Changes for Petraeus and Odierno: The Challenges Ahead http://www.captainsjournal.com/2008/04/24/changes-for-petraeus-and-odierno-the-challenges-ahead/ News & Commentary on Warfare, Policy and Counterterrorism Sun, 27 Jul 2008 09:27:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: LT Nixon http://www.captainsjournal.com/2008/04/24/changes-for-petraeus-and-odierno-the-challenges-ahead/#comment-25513 LT Nixon Thu, 24 Apr 2008 06:10:43 +0000 http://www.captainsjournal.com/?p=1057#comment-25513 The leap for Odierno from being in charge of security operations to being in charge of MNF-I isn't too big a jumpp. The operations part of the command is by far the biggest part of MNF-I, but there's also detainee ops, more political/diplomatic type work with the Government of Iraq, media operations, and training the ISF. But Petraeus going from Iraq to CENTCOM will be huge. It seems a lot of people smarter than me are concerned about Petraeus handling Afghanistan, and it will be interesting to see what happens. The leap for Odierno from being in charge of security operations to being in charge of MNF-I isn’t too big a jumpp. The operations part of the command is by far the biggest part of MNF-I, but there’s also detainee ops, more political/diplomatic type work with the Government of Iraq, media operations, and training the ISF.

But Petraeus going from Iraq to CENTCOM will be huge. It seems a lot of people smarter than me are concerned about Petraeus handling Afghanistan, and it will be interesting to see what happens.

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