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==Early Years==
==Early Years==
Petraeus, {{age|1952|11|07}}, has a wife Holly and two children, a son and a daughter. <ref>[http://www.dodig.mil/IGInformation/archives/LTG_Petreaus.pdf Commanding General Biography] DODIG.mil</ref>
Petraeus, {{age|1952|11|07}}, has a wife [[Holly Petraeus|Holly]] and two children, a son and a daughter. <ref>[http://www.dodig.mil/IGInformation/archives/LTG_Petreaus.pdf Commanding General Biography] DODIG.mil</ref>
He was born in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, to Sixtus and Miriam Petraeus. Attended and was a 1970 graduate of Cornwall Central High School. From there he attended [[West Point]] military academy. Petraeus would earn high marks, graduating top of his class. He earned a M.P.A. and a Ph.D. His doctoral thesis was ''The American military and the lessons of Vietnam : a study of military influence and the use of force in the post-Vietnam era., 1987,'' Later, he would author the manual devoted to counterinsurgency operations. This new counterinsurgency field manual became the backbone for an overwhelming success by the U.S. military in Iraq.
He was born in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, to Sixtus and Miriam Petraeus. Attended and was a 1970 graduate of Cornwall Central High School. From there he attended [[West Point]] military academy. Petraeus would earn high marks, graduating top of his class. He earned a M.P.A. and a Ph.D. His doctoral thesis was ''The American military and the lessons of Vietnam: a study of military influence and the use of force in the post-Vietnam era., 1987.'' Later, he would author the manual devoted to counterinsurgency operations. This new counterinsurgency field manual became the backbone for an overwhelming success by the U.S. military in Iraq.
==Leading up to the Surge==
==Leading up to the Surge==