LTC John A. Nagl
(USA) is currently a Military Assistant in the Office of the Deputy
Secretary of Defense.
He led a tank platoon in
the First Cavalry Division in Operation Desert Storm, taught national
security studies at West Point, and served as the Operations Officer of
Task Force 1-34 AR in Khalidiyah, Iraq.
A West Point graduate and
Rhodes Scholar, Nagl holds the M.Phil. and D.Phil. in International
Relations from Oxford University and an MMAS from the Command and
General Staff College.
Nagl is the author of the
book Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons
from Malaya and Vietnam as well as numerous articles and reviews
including:
LTC Nagl is slated to
assume command of 1-34 Armor in November 2006.
