Joe Biden believed that then-President Barack Obama was manipulated by his military commanders when they advised him to surge thousands of additional troops to Afghanistan in 2009, according to "Peril," by The Washington Post's Bob Woodward and Robert Costa, an early copy of which was obtained by The Post.Biden, who was vice president at the time, disagreed so strongly with the troop surge that he privately pledged, "The military doesn't fuck around with me," the book says, according to The Post.

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