COIN fights: A response to Etzioni

Etzioni both exaggerates and minimizes the influence of my book Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife on different components of US military doctrine, mischaracterizes my treatment of the Malayan Emergency, and unfairly denigrates the successes of counterinsurgency in Iraq from 2007 to 2011 while misatt...

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Published in:Small wars & insurgencies 2015-05, Vol.26 (3), p.377-382
Main Author: Nagl, John A.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Afghanistan
Counterinsurgency
General Petraeus
Iraq
Learning
Malaya
Marine Corps Manual FM3-24
Military
Military strategy
Military studies
Political doctrines
Political succession
Rebellions
U.S.A
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Summary:Etzioni both exaggerates and minimizes the influence of my book Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife on different components of US military doctrine, mischaracterizes my treatment of the Malayan Emergency, and unfairly denigrates the successes of counterinsurgency in Iraq from 2007 to 2011 while misattributing the reasons for its failures in both Iraq and Afghanistan.
ISSN:0959-2318
1743-9558
DOI:10.1080/09592318.2014.982935