INDCJournal: "Army is training advisors for Iraq"

October 25, 2006

"Army is training advisors for Iraq"

Posted by Bill

Within the Army's tightly knit community of counterinsurgency experts, Lt. Col. John Nagl is something of a star.
When the Army and Marine Corps decided to rewrite their field manual on how to fight insurgents last year, Nagl was chosen as one of its authors. His doctoral thesis on guerrilla wars was just republished in paperback with an approving foreword by the Army's chief of staff.

But when Nagl's two-year stint in the Pentagon ended this month, he did not, like most accomplished soldiers of his rank, take command of an armored battalion headed back to Iraq. Instead, he shipped out to this sprawling base in rural Kansas where the Army is attempting what some consider its most ambitious structural change since the Vietnam War.

Here, amid rolling fields dotted by scores of quickly built barracks, the Army is building a training base that by early next year will be turning as many as 2,000 of its most promising midlevel officers into military advisors every two months, most of them headed to Iraq.

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Is this an example of "about time, what the hell have you been doing the last 3 years"?

Posted by: rbj at October 26, 2006 09:38 AM

And by "you" I mean the people in charge, not the folks on the ground.

Posted by: rbj at October 26, 2006 09:39 AM

I learned about the InDCJournal thanks to The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman. I read about the exclusive interview you had posted here.

Maybe sir we can exchange links. I'm from Philippines. I already placed a link of your blog to my blog.

Posted by: Earl at October 26, 2006 11:07 AM