{"id":770,"date":"2009-01-16T14:41:48","date_gmt":"2009-01-16T18:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.utc.edu\/Administration\/UniversityRelations\/news\/?p=400"},"modified":"2009-04-21T12:56:14","modified_gmt":"2009-04-21T17:56:14","slug":"john-nagl-acclaimed-author-to-speak-on-campus-feb-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2009\/01\/john-nagl-acclaimed-author-to-speak-on-campus-feb-3\/","title":{"rendered":"John Nagl, acclaimed author, to speak on campus Feb. 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. John Nagl, the acclaimed author of <em>Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam,<\/em> will speak at the UTC University Center\u2019s Raccoon Mountain Room on Tuesday, February 3, at 12:15 p.m. Nagl, a 1988 West Point graduate, Rhodes Scholar, former Army colonel, and Bronze Star recipient will speak on \u201cCounterinsurgency Lessons from Iraq and Afghanistan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img_right\" src=\"http:\/\/www.utc.edu\/Administration\/UniversityRelations\/news\/images\/Nagl.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. john Nagl\" style=\"max-width: 100%;\"style=\"max-width: 100%;\"\/>Nagl, currently a Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security in Washington, D.C., evaluated Iraq\u2019s security and political situation on the ground on behalf of General David Petraeus. The University of Chicago Press will publish later this year his new book on the Army\u2019s adaption to counterinsurgency (COIN) in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>While he was in the Army, Nagl served in Operation Desert Storm, firing the first tank rounds against Iraqi border post in February 1991. He later worked as Military Assistant to Deputy Secretaries of Defense Paul Wolfowitz and Gordan England advising on counterterror policies. He served as managing and contributing editor of the team that produced the Army\u2019s Field Manual 3-24 <em>Counterinsurgency<\/em>. Nagl also taught classes on National Security and U.S. Foreign Policy at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York.<\/p>\n<p>Nagl received his Ph.D. in International Relations from St. Antony\u2019s College at Oxford University. He has published articles in <em>Foreign Policy, Military Review,<\/em> <em>National Security Studies Quarterly <\/em>and <em>World Affairs<\/em>. Nagl has been featured in discussion on counterinsurgency in Iraq and Afghanistan on National Public Radio, CSPAN, and Reuters, also writing op-ed commentaries for the <em>The New York Times<\/em> and <em>The Washington Post<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>During his UTC visit Nagl will talk with cadets enrolled in the new ROTC program. 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