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Lieutenant Colonel 'John A Nagl' (1966- ) is a soldier in a American Army who is regarded as an influential expert in counterinsurgency.
After growing up in Omaha, Nebraska, he attended the United States Military Academy at West Point, where he graduated at near the top of his class in 1988. He was chosen as a Rhodes Scholar and studied international relations at Oxford. He served as a tank platoon commander during the Gulf War, then returned to school to eventually earn his Ph. D. at Oxford's St. Anthony's College.[1] His research focus was on counterinsurgency: his dissertation was a comparison of the British and American militaries as they dealt with insurgencies in Malaysia and Vietnam, respectively. This work would later be made a book-length treatment published under the title ''Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife'', after an observation by T.E. Lawrence about the difficulty of fighting guerillas.
After his studies, he was appointed to a professorship at West Point, which he held until deploying in 2003 as an operations officer with an armored battalion stationed near Khaldiya, Iraq. Recently, he has helped author the army's counterinsurgency field manual (FM 3-24), and currently[2] helps train MiTT Teams--small groups of soldiers tasked to develop the Iraqi Army. Already notable in military circles, his public profile was further raised with an interview on Comedy Central's ''The Daily Show'' on August 23, 2007.
1. Maass, Peter. "Professor Nagl's War", ''The New York Times'', January 11, 2004. [1]
2. Olmsted, Andrew. "From the Front Lines" RockyMountainNews.com Accessed September 4, 2007. [2]
★ An interview with Nagl for the Combat Studies Institute at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
★ Link to Daily Show interview
After growing up in Omaha, Nebraska, he attended the United States Military Academy at West Point, where he graduated at near the top of his class in 1988. He was chosen as a Rhodes Scholar and studied international relations at Oxford. He served as a tank platoon commander during the Gulf War, then returned to school to eventually earn his Ph. D. at Oxford's St. Anthony's College.[1] His research focus was on counterinsurgency: his dissertation was a comparison of the British and American militaries as they dealt with insurgencies in Malaysia and Vietnam, respectively. This work would later be made a book-length treatment published under the title ''Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife'', after an observation by T.E. Lawrence about the difficulty of fighting guerillas.
After his studies, he was appointed to a professorship at West Point, which he held until deploying in 2003 as an operations officer with an armored battalion stationed near Khaldiya, Iraq. Recently, he has helped author the army's counterinsurgency field manual (FM 3-24), and currently[2] helps train MiTT Teams--small groups of soldiers tasked to develop the Iraqi Army. Already notable in military circles, his public profile was further raised with an interview on Comedy Central's ''The Daily Show'' on August 23, 2007.
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References
1. Maass, Peter. "Professor Nagl's War", ''The New York Times'', January 11, 2004. [1]
2. Olmsted, Andrew. "From the Front Lines" RockyMountainNews.com Accessed September 4, 2007. [2]
External Links
★ An interview with Nagl for the Combat Studies Institute at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
★ Link to Daily Show interview
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