About this title: 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 circumstances during the course of conflicts for which they are initially unprepared. Through the use of archival sources and interviews with participants in both engagements, Nagl compares the development of counterinsurgency doctrine and practice in the Malayan Emergency from 1948 to 1960 with what developed ...
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Description: Very Good with no dust jacket. 15 x 23 cm.; pg. xxi, 249; Foreword by General Peter J. Schoomaker, introduction, bibliography, index. "Armies are often accused of preparing to fight the previous war. In [the book], 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 circumstances during the course of conflicts for which they are initially unprepared. " ISBN: 0226567702; ... read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr
Date Published: 2005-09-15
ISBN-13:9780226567709ISBN:0226567702
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780226567709ISBN:0226567702
Description: New. 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 quest... read more
"kind of dry. read it more for business strategy than military strategy. there's not a lot of new stuff in that regard, but it's interesting from an historical perspective."
"This was a really useful book for me because it helped me to increase my knowledge about Vietnam (which was pretty small beforehand) and provide some extremely useful and insightful ideas about the counterinsurgency efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Although the ideas that Nagl brings up in the book about the proper way to fight an insurgency (mostly taken from the lessons the British learned in Malaya) can't necessarily be called a roadmap for peace I'm hard pressed to think that a lot of them wouldn't work very well in America's current wars. President for a day huh. If you're interested in either Vietnam or ways out of Iraq and Afghanistan I would definitely recommend this book."
"Nagl compares the British and American approaches to counterinsurgency (in Malaya and Vietnam) through the lens of organizational design. An excellent book for thinking about how information flows in organizations with a number of great historic examples of how organizations 'choose' to learn or to not learn from the world around them."
"I learned a new way to fight the low intensity conflict with asymmetric weapon and unconventional tactic in a new kind of warfare. Gotta go to find another reference book."
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