Counterinsurgency Discussion with Dr. John A. Nagl (LTC, United States Army, Ret.)
Event Date
03/16/2016
Event Time7:00 pm - 9:00 pm;
Location
Foley Center at Saint Joseph’s University
5600 City Avenue
Philadelphia, PA
Please Join Saint Joseph’s University Student Veterans of America (SVA) Chapter for the SVA Speaker Series Kickoff Event with Dr. John A. Nagl (LTC, United States Army, Ret.)
What: Dr. John A. Nagl will discuss his experience as a military leader in the times of counterinsurgency operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Date: March 16, 2016
Time: 7:00PM – 9:00PM
Location: Cardinal John P. Foley Campus Center, 5600 City Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19131
Parking: McShain Hall and Duperreault parking lots. Event signs will be posted. Please e-mail sjuveterans@sju.edu if you have any questions about parking.
Campus Map: https://sites.sju.edu/campusmap/
The event is free and open to the public. Books will be available for purchase to be signed by the author.
About the Author: Dr. John A. Nagl is a retired lieutenant colonel of the U.S. Army. A graduate of West Point and a Rhodes Scholar, he received his Ph.D. from St. Antony’s College, Oxford, where he wrote his thesis on counterinsurgency in Malaya and Vietnam. Nagl served as the military assistant to deputy secretaries of Defense Paul Wolfowitz and Gordon England, where he coauthored the U.S. Army and Marine Corps counterinsurgency field manual with generals David Petraeus and James M. Mattis. He is the former president of the Center for a New American Security and the ninth headmaster of the Haverford School in Pennsylvania.
About the book: “Knife Fights: A Memoir of Modern War in Theory and Practice”
“From one of the most important Army officers of his generation, a memoir of the military’s revolution in counterinsurgency warfare.”
“Delivering a profound education in modern warfare, John Nagl’s Knife Fights is essential reading for anyone who cares about the fate of America’s soldiers and the purposes for which their lives are put at risk.
As an army tank commander in the first Gulf War, Nagl was an early convert to the view that America’s greatest future threats would come from asymmetric warfare—guerrillas, terrorists, and insurgents. His Oxford thesis on the lessons of Vietnam—eventually published as a book called Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife—became the bible of the counterinsurgency movement. But it would take 9/11 and the botched aftermath of the Iraq invasion to give his ideas contemporary relevance. After a year’s hard fighting in Iraq’s Anbar Province, where Nagl served as operations officer of a tank battalion in the 1st Infantry Division, he was asked by General David Petraeus to coauthor the new Army and Marine Corps counterinsurgency field manual—rewriting core doctrine that would change the course of two wars and the thinking of an army. Knife Fights is the definitive account of counterinsurgency and its consequences by the man who was the doctrine’s leading architect.”
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