Douglas Lute

Douglas Lute (born November 3, 1952) is a retired United States Army lieutenant general. He was a senior advisor to the U.S. government during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. He served from 2013 to 2017 as the United States Permanent Representative to NATO.

Quotes

 * With the military forces that remained in NATO we took our show on the road.
 * (quote at 4:48 of 1:31:00)


 * We were devoid of a fundamental understanding of Afghanistan — we didn't know what we were doing. ... What are we trying to do here? We didn't have the foggiest notion of what we were undertaking.
 * as quoted by Craig Whitlock in: