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Afghanistan Strategy on Stage: Five Key Questions for the Administration
The upcoming congressional testimony of the administration’s national security team on Afghanistan may be the most pivotal since September 2007, when General David Petraeus an...
By John A. Nagl & Richard Fontaine
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Highlights: Book Launch: Knife Fights: A Memoir of Modern War in Theory and Practice
By John A. Nagl
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Interview: White House Strategy Against ISIS Feasible?
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By John A. Nagl
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A New U.S. Military Would Be an Army of Advisers
The United States has an extraordinary ability to defeat any conventional armed force on the planet; our tanks, ships and planes will make short work of any enemy in frontal w...
By John A. Nagl
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Iraq veteran: This is not what my friends fought and died for
For a veteran of the fighting there—and proponent of the counterinsurgency strategy that provided a chance for the country to stabilize—watching the recent unraveling of Iraq ...
By John A. Nagl
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What America Learned in Iraq
THE costs of the second Iraq war, which began 10 years ago this week, are staggering: nearly 4,500 Americans killed and more than 30,000 wounded, many grievously; tens of thou...
By John A. Nagl
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Does military service still matter for the presidency?
In every presidential election since 1992, the candidate with the less distinguished military résumé has triumphed. Bill Clinton defeated war heroes George H.W. Bush and Bob D...
By John A. Nagl
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Falling In and Out of War
When you’ve been wrong about something as important as war, as I have, you owe yourself some hard thinking about how to avoid repeating the mistake. And if that’s true for a m...
By John A. Nagl
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Commentary: Americans can agree that the Iraq war was a mistake
This was a preventive war designed to prevent Iraq from using or proliferating its presumed weapons of mass destruction to terrorists or terrorist states, but those weapons di...
By John A. Nagl
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Afghan Strategy Begins to Make Gains
To U.S. voters weary of war after a decade of casualties, high costs and frustration, the conflict in Afghanistan may look like a quagmire. The accepted image now seems to be ...
By John A. Nagl
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Opinion: Find ways to keep quality midgrades
It’s been a tough decade for the U.S. Army. Like the rest of the nation, it was unprepared for the asymmetric attacks of Sept. 11. Special Forces teams, with CIA agents and Ai...
By John A. Nagl
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Command Post: "Why Did the U.S. Hand Off the Libyan War to NATO?"
Why did the U.S. military agree to do the "heavy lifting" in the opening days of the war with Libya -- launching long-range bombing strikes from the continental U.S., among ot...
By John A. Nagl
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Command Post: "Why Are We at War With Libya?"
This week on Command Post we're taking a look at what has been going on for more than five months -- yikes, by my watch that's nearly half a year -- in Libya. This was suppose...
By John A. Nagl
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Command Post: "Is U.S. Military Personnel Policy Ready For The 21st Century?"
Many experts say the industrial-era personnel system still in use by the Pentagon -- with its up-or-out promotions, its non-vesting pension system for the first 20 years, and ...
By John A. Nagl, David W. Barno & USA (Ret.)
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Command Post: "Is U.S. National Security Gun-Heavy And Butter-Light?"
One of the intriguing things about recently-departed defense secretary Robert Gates -- pretty much a lifetime spy -- was his concern that the U.S. toolkit was out of whack whe...
By John A. Nagl, David W. Barno & USA (Ret.)
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Command Post: "How Tough Is Cutting $400 Billion?"
Just how tough is it going to be for the Pentagon and other national-security agencies to cut $400 billion from their spending between now and 2023? Those are the marching ord...
By John A. Nagl, David W. Barno & USA (Ret.)
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Command Post Episode Four: "What's Pakistan's Role in Afghanistan Going To Be?"
As the U.S. begins pulling troops out of Afghanistan, is Pakistan going to be a help or a hindrance to stability in the region? John Nagl of the Center for a New American Secu...
By John A. Nagl, David W. Barno & USA (Ret.)
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Command Post Episode Two: "Is Counter-Insurgency Dead?"
Here's our second take on President Obama's Afghan policy in our new video series featuring John Nagl of the Center for a New American Security and your Battleland scribe. We'...
By John A. Nagl, David W. Barno & USA (Ret.)
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Command Post Episode One: President Obama's evolving strategy for Afghanistan
The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) is pleased to announce the launch of Command Post, a new video series from CNAS and TIME. The video series will take week-long lo...
By John A. Nagl, David W. Barno & USA (Ret.)
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Obama Preps Afghanistan Drawdown, But Debate Lingers On End Goals
Watch the full episode. See more PBS NewsHour. JEFFREY BROWN: And we have our own debate now on what the president should announce tomorrow. Retired Army Lt. Col. John Nagl ...
By John A. Nagl