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Douglas Lute Quotes

United States general

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.

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Alternative Names: Douglas E. Lute • Douglas Edward Lute

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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.

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With the military forces that remained in NATO we took our show on the road.

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