I thought the navy admiral was going to be in charge of the operation, over Petraeus. What happened to him?
I have no idea but it looks like he's taking charge, hope so anyway.
As far as I know David Petreuas is the supreme commanding officer in the field
I could be wrong, but I thought the admiral was taking over command of Centcom. I think he just took command a few days ago (or last week, I'm rather foggy after working like a fool in flowerbeds for the last two weeks, thank goodness for ibuprofen and Claritin-D!)
ADM Fallon is the new CENTCOM commander. GEN Petraeus is the ground commander in Iraq. GEN Patraeus reports to ADM Fallon in military lingo...
The Admiral is in charge of the region. Delegation of Iraqi responsibility has been made to Petraeus.
That is how things work.
The Admiral is also responsible for Afganistan. But Nato, it appears, has operational authority.
Go figure.
"I thought the navy admiral was going to be in charge of the operation, over Petraeus. What happened to him?"
He is CENTCOM CDR, Petraeus is Multinational Forces-Iraq CDR....he works for the Admiral