The 2010 TIME 100 Poll

Cast your votes for the leaders, artists, innovators and icons who you think are the most influential people in the world. Though official voting for inclusion on the TIME 100 list has now closed, with Mir-Hossein Mousavi having won the honor, users can continue to vote for their favorites until the list is revealed on Thursday, April 29th

Stanley McChrystal

Stanley McChrystal

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Age: 55
Occupation: U.S. General, Centcom commander
Previous TIME 100 Appearances: 0

America's top general for the war in Afghanistan, McChrystal won a protracted battle inside the Obama Administration for a massive 30,000 troop surge as part of a classic counterinsurgency campaign against the Taliban and their al-Qaeda allies. McChrystal's initial assault on Taliban strongholds in Marjah presaged a larger attack on the former headquarters of the insurgency in Kandahar.

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