Knife fights
Subtitle: a memoir of modern war in theory and practice
By: John A. Nagl
Publisher: Penguin Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9781594204982
Subjects: Counterinsurgency; Military art and science; Military policy
Description: An influential Army officer traces the Gulf War experiences that shaped his perspectives on the changing nature of conventional combat and his then-discounted views about terrorism, citing his role in coauthoring the military's new counterinsurgency field manual.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-262) and index.
Table of contents: title: Ghostriders in the storm; title: A counterinsurgent at Oxford and West Point; title: Back to Iraq; title: The first Washington fight: Iraq; title: Clear, hold, and build; title: Proof of concept; title: The second Washington fight: Afghanistan; title: Counterinsurgency revisited.