By James Kitfield
Many of today's senior U.S. military leaders came of age on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, rising through the ranks because of their ability to adapt to those conflicts' fluid demands. Maj. Gen. Terry Wolff, commander of the 1st Armored Division, is one of them.
As a colonel during the March 2003 invasion, Wolff led the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment into Iraq. He returned in 2006 as the commanding general charged with training the Iraqi security forces. Wolff then spent nearly two years on the White House's National Security Council staff as special assistant to the president and senior director for Iraq and Afghanistan. Back in Iraq this year, he is responsible for Baghdad and Anbar province.
National Journal Staff Correspondent James Kitfield spoke with Wolff at his Baghdad headquarters about the recent Iraqi elections and the withdrawal of 50 percent of U.S. forces from Iraq by August, with the rest scheduled to leave by December 31, 2011.
Subscribers can read the full interview here. For James Kitfield's first-hand report on the Iraqi elections, click here.
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