Mention in the New York Times
Friday, January 30, 2009
Pentagon Memo
"But Mr. Obama also embraced a group of younger officers, all veterans of Iraq or Afghanistan, who provided him with on-the-ground accounts of those two wars and helped build his military fluency.
The group included Mr. Mullaney, 30, a former Rhodes scholar and the author of a coming book about Afghanistan, The Unforgiving Minute, who worked as an Obama campaign national security aide in Chicago; Matthew Flavin, 29, an Amherst graduate and former Navy intelligence officer who served in Iraq, Afghanistan and Bosnia and who worked as a campaign national security aide in Washington; and Phillip Carter, 33, an Army veteran and adviser to the Iraqi police in Baquba in 2005 and 2006, who was in charge of veterans outreach for the Obama campaign.
