John A. Nagl

Broschiertes Buch

Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife

Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam

Beschreibung

Considers the crucial question of how armies adapt to changing circumstances during the course of conflicts for which they are initially unprepared. This book is a timely examination of the lessons of previous counterinsurgency campaigns that will be hailed by both military leaders and interested civilians.

Autor

Lieutenant Colonel John A. Nagl is a Military Assistant to the Deputy Secretary of Defense. Nagl led a tank platoon in the First Cavalry Division in Operation Desert Storm, taught national security studies at West Point's Department of Social Sciences, and served as the Operations Officer of Task Force 1-34 Armor in the First Infantry Division in Khalidiyah, Iraq.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Chicago Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 154mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9780226567709
• ISBN-10: 0226567702
• Artikelnr.: 21697556