Related by context. Frequent words. (Click for all words.) 67 Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry 65 Eikenberry 62 Petraeus 60 McChrystal 60 Gen Petraeus 59 David Petraeus 59 Ambassador Karl Eikenberry 58 Zalmay Khalilzad 57 Gen. Stanley McChrystal 56 Abizaid 55 Stanley McChrystal 55 Ryan Crocker 54 General Stanley McChrystal 54 John Abizaid 54 H. Petraeus 53 General Ray Odierno 52 Gen. Petraeus 52 Peter Schoomaker 52 Khalilzad 51 Douglas Lute 51 Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad 51 Odierno 51 Admiral Mullen 51 David McKiernan 51 General Ashfaq Kayani 51 Gen. McChrystal 50 General Kayani 50 Kayani 50 Kai Eide 50 Afghanistan 49 troop drawdown 49 Barry McCaffrey 49 Richard Holbrooke 49 Schoomaker 49 Parvez Kayani 49 Afghan 49 Gen. Ray Odierno 48 Ambassador Crocker 48 President Hamid Karzai 48 Karzai 47 Khurshid Kasuri 46 Kiyani 46 ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad 46 chief Gen. Ashfaq 46 Rumsfeld 46 Jean Marie Guehenno 46 combat brigades 46 troop buildup 46 Lt. Gen. Raymond Odierno 46 Sir Richard Dannatt 46 Marine Corps commandant 46 Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad 45 Lt. Gen. Ray Odierno 45 Hamid Karzai 45 Sedwill 45 Natynczyk 45 Mike Mullen 45 Jay Garner 45 John Chilcot 44 Holbrooke 44 troop levels 44 troop reductions 44 McKiernan 44 Robert Gates 44 troop surge 44 Husain Haqqani 43 Warner R Va 43 Tommy Franks 43 Jaap de Hoop Scheffer 43 al Maliki 43 Spanta 43 Shinseki 43 Gen. Raymond Odierno 43 McCrystal 43 Nouri al Maliki 43 Eric K. Shinseki 43 Oruzgan 43 NATO 43 John Negroponte 42 Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari 42 D. Negroponte 42 Joseph Biden 42 Barno 42 counterinsurgency strategy 42 Kabul 42 resurgent Taliban 42 Blotz 42 Paul Bremer 42 Wardak 42 Pakistan 42 Jim Garamone 42 Afghans 42 Elizabeth Mathias 42 General Ashfaq Parvez 42 Zebari 42 Federally Administered Tribal Areas 42 General Tommy Franks 42 Lute 41 Zinni 41 Staffan de Mistura 41 Mark Hertling