Petraeus leads a surge across campus
By Merrill Balassone
Retired Gen. David Petraeus officially became “Professor Petraeus” to USC students last week — lecturing on energy and the U.S. economy, meeting with student veterans and cheering the football team to a win in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.
Petraeus, whose current interests include how energy, information technology, life sciences and manufacturing revolutions will spur the North American economy, was impressed with the latest Trojan technology — robotic fingers that give machines a humanlike touch and the testimony of Holocaust survivors brought to life through 3-D technology.
Petraeus, who constructed the counterinsurgency doctrine that stabilized Iraq under U.S. and allied […]
