Douglas Lute

2001 – 2021

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

- Douglas 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."

- Douglas Lute

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