Mcchrystal

• After war room, heading Ivy League classroom

  On a recent evening in a classroom at Yale, Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal held forth for two animated hours on the conflicts in Northern Ireland and South Africa, with bits of his own history as the former top commander in Afghanistan thrown in. In earlier classes he covered the Bay of Pigs and Vietnam and, as his students tell it, recounted in mesmer...

• After McChrystal, French General now scolded for Afghanistan comments

  A French General drew fire from his top brass on Friday for criticising the US strategy in Afghanistan, after the American commander there was sacked for a similar reason.General Vincent Desportes was quoted by Le Monde newspaper as saying that "the situation is worse than ever" in Afghanistan, where US and other allied troops are battling the Tali...

• Expect spurt in Afghan violence: General Petraeus

  Top American military commander General David Petraeus headed for Afghanistan warned of escalating violence there in the coming months on Tuesday. He said that he would not be surprised by links between Pakistan's spy agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and the Taliban, who have established a safe haven in Pakistan's restive tribal region."Let...

• Change in command will not affect Afghan strategy: Obama

  President Barack Obama says that the US will "not miss a beat" in the Afghan war effort because of the change in command. With two commanders fired in Afghanistan a little more than a year apart, where does the war stand?  Defense Secretary Robert Gates believes they are making some progress but it is slower and harder than anticipated.And as ...

• Pakistan exploits US woes in Afghanistan

  Pakistan is exploiting the troubled United States military effort in Afghanistan to drive home a political settlement with Afghanistan that would give Pakistan important influence there but is likely to undermine United States interests, Pakistani and American officials said.The dismissal of Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal will almost certainly embolden...

• Gen Petraeus taking control of a 'Tougher Fight'

  In late 2008, shortly after he had helped pull Iraq back from the brink of catastrophe, Gen. David H. Petraeus prepared to turn to that other American war. "I've always said that Afghanistan would be the tougher fight," General Petraeus said at the time.Now the burden falls to him, at perhaps the decisive moment in President Obama's campaign to rev...

• Obama sacks General McChrystal, picks Petraeus to lead Afghan war

  US President Barack Obama has accepted General Stanley McChrystal's resignation as the top US Commander in Afghanistan and is replacing him with General David Petraeus, head of US Central Command.

• General McChrystal sees Obama, then leaves before war meeting

  Gen Stanley A McChrystal left the White House after meeting with President Obama for about 20 minutes, departing ahead of a meeting on the Afghanistan war scheduled for later Wednesday morning, but there was no immediate word on whether he would keep his job as the top American commander in Afghanistan.

• Who is General McChrystal?

  Like his boss, mentor and friend, Gen. David H. Petraeus, Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal modeled himself as one of a new breed of American commanders: intellectual, open with the press and as politically savvy as the elected officials he was hired to serve.In that respect, the two four-star generals -- Petraeus in Iraq, McChrystal in Afghanistan -- per...

• General McChrystal's fate in limbo as he prepares to meet Obama

  President Obama's top commander in Afghanistan flew to Washington on Tuesday to find out whether he would be fired for remarks he and members of his staff made that were contemptuous of senior administration officials, laying bare the disarray and enmity in a foreign-policy team that is struggling with the war. (Read: Who is Gen McChrystal) In an a...

• All options on table: White House on McChrystal

  The top US commander in Afghanistan appeared to be on his way out after the White House and Pentagon took strong objection to his controversial comments against key aids of Obama administration in an interview.

• US Commander in trouble over rolling stone interview

  General Stanley A McChrystal, the top commander in Afghanistan, was ordered back to Washington on Tuesday after a magazine article portrayed him and his staff as openly contemptuous of some senior members of the Obama administration, the United States ambassador to Afghanistan and senior European officials.