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Knife fights : a memoir of modern war in theory and practice / John A. Nagl.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nagl, John A., 1966-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Counterinsurgency--United States.
- Counterinsurgency.
- Military art and science.
- Military policy.
- United States.
- United States--Military policy--21st century.
- Military art and science--United States.
- Nagl, John A., 1966-.
- Nagl, John A.
- Physical Description:
- 269 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Penguin Press, 2014.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Ghostriders in the storm
- A counterinsurgent at Oxford and West Point
- Back to Iraq
- The first Washington fight: Iraq
- Clear, hold, and build
- Proof of concept
- The second Washington fight: Afghanistan
- Counterinsurgency revisited.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-258) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781594204982
- 1594204985
- OCLC:
- 889886734
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