General David Petraeus, US Army (Ret.) is the leading battlefield commander and strategist of our time. He served over 37 years in the US military, culminating his career with six commands as a general officer, five of which were in combat, and then served as Director of the CIA. He is now the Chairman of the KKR Global Institute, serves on corporate boards, is the Kissinger Fellow at Yale University’s Jackson School, and is the co-author, with Andrew Roberts, of Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine. General Petraeus graduated with distinction from the US Military Academy and earned a Ph.D. at Princeton University.