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John P. Abizaid   Download vCard

Senior Advisor, Preventive Defense Project

CISAC
Stanford University
Encina Hall
Stanford, CA 94305-6165

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preventive defense


John P. Abizaid retired from the United States Army in May 2007, after thirty-four years of active service. After graduating from the United States Military Academy at West Point, he rose from infantry platoon leader to become the youngest four-star general in the Army and the longest-serving commander of United States Central Command.

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Jake Towne's Afghanistan War Plank
?Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. Frankly, I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.
November 20, 2009 in Liberty Maven

UPI NewsTrack TopNews
Ours looks forward and is preventive," Lieberman said, though Gates also said the military probe would look for ways to prevent further violent episodes.
November 20, 2009 in Times of the Internet

Goldberg: No way to fight a war on terror
They would go back to the legal purgatory known as ?preventive detention.? That is the right policy; these are dangerous men, after all.
November 18, 2009 in The Saratogian

Army Looks Inward In Hasan Probe
Nadil Malik Hasan, the alleged gunman responsible for killing 13 and wounding 29 at Fort Hood earlier this month, defense officials told CBS News.
November 17, 2009 in CBS 2

US Dept of Defense Casey Visits Soldiers in Resilience Training
?But when we looked at the front end, we were very light on the preventive tools,? Casey said. ?We didn't have ways of building resilience and enhancing ...
November 17, 2009 in ISRIA