Invariably, armies are accused of preparing to fight the previous war. In "Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife", Lieutenant Colonel John A. Nagl - a veteran of both Operation Desert Storm and the current conflict in Iraq - considers the now-crucial question of how armies adapt to changing circumstance[...]
""American success or failure in Iraq may well depend on whether the Iraqis like American soldiers or not.""
The U.S. military could certainly have used that bit of wisdom in 2003, as violence began to eclipse the Iraq War's early successes. Ironically, had the Army only looked in its own archiv[...]
"From one of the most important army officers of his generation, a memoir of the revolution in warfare he helped lead, in combat and in Washington"
When John Nagl was an army tank commander in the first Gulf War of 1991, fresh out of West Point and Oxford, he could already see that America's mi[...]