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General David H. Petraeus, commander of U.S. Central Command, will deliver the Colonel Leslie Callahan Memorial Endowment Lecture at Georgia Tech. The talk will be broadcast on channel 19 of the Georgia Tech Cable Network (GTCN).
General David H. Petraeus, as Commanding General, Multi-National Force-Iraq, led the surge in Iraq, where a change in tactics backed by an influx of about 30,000 additional U.S. service members seized the initiative from the insurgents. He assumed command of the United States Central Command in October 2008. He was commissioned in the Infantry upon graduation from the United States Military Academy in 1974. He has MPA and Ph.D. degrees in international relations from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
