U.S. Army maverick part of new breed
Officer reworks rules in Afghanistan, succeeds
Posted: December 20, 2009 at 3:59 a.m.
You may wonder how Thomas Gukeisen made it to lieutenant colonel, and by age 39 at that. He breaks Army rules and operates by his own rendition of counterinsurgency warfare whose arsenal includes Afghan poetry, chaos theory and the thoughts of a 17th-century English philosopher.
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