John Nagl

Dr. John Nagl is Associate Professor of Warfighting Studies in the Department of Military Strategy, Planning, and Operations at the Army War College. A West Point graduate and retired Army officer, Nagl served in tank units in both Iraq wars. His Oxford University doctoral dissertation was published as Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam by the University of Chicago Press. He later helped write the U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual and Knife Fights: A Memoir of Modern War, taught at West Point, the Naval Academy, Georgetown, and George Washington Universities, and was the President of the Center for a New American Security.