birth_date known_for image article_title education name occupation
october 9 , 1957 critique of us army counter-insurgency doctrine gian gentile.jpg gian gentile
 ph.d. , history , stanford university , 2000 gian p. gentile us army officer , history professor at west point
gian gentile

gian p. gentile -lrb- october 9 , 1957 -rrb- is a retired us army colonel , who served for many years as a history professor at the united states military academy at west point .
gentile has also been a visiting fellow at the council on foreign relations and a senior historian at the rand corporation .
he is a leading critic of u.s. military counter-insurgency doctrine .
