John Nagl

John Nagl is professor of warfighting studies at the U.S. Army War College. He is the author of Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam and Knife Fights: A Memoir of Modern War in Theory and Practice.

Articles by John Nagl
An illustration shows two missiles arcing across the sky above a lone figure amid a scene of destruction with the shells of buildings on either side.
An illustration shows two missiles arcing across the sky above a lone figure amid a scene of destruction with the shells of buildings on either side.

Is the Israel-Hamas War Closer to Its Beginning or Its End?

Analysis
Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib, M.L. deRaismes Combes, Dana El Kurd, Marwan Muasher, John Nagl, Amit Segal, Hagar Shezaf
A Ukrainian soldier walks along a trench at a position on the front line with Russia-backed separatists near the settlement of Troitske in the Luhansk region of Ukraine.
A Ukrainian soldier walks along a trench at a position on the front line with Russia-backed separatists near the settlement of Troitske in the Luhansk region of Ukraine.

Will Ukraine Be Afghanistan All Over Again for Russia?

Argument
John Nagl
U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan in 2006
U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan in 2006

The U.S. Military Is a Helicopter Parent

Argument
Jerad I. Harper, John Nagl
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Afghanistan needs more Afghan troops

The South Asia Channel
John Nagl
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