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'''John A. Nagl''' is President of the [[Center for a New American Security]] (CNAS). He is also a member of the Defense Policy Board, a Visiting Professor in the War Studies Department at Kings College of London, a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Veterans of Foreign Wars, and a member of the International Institute of Strategic Studies. Dr. Nagl is a member of the Joint Force Quarterly Advisory Committee and of the Advisory Board of the Journal of the Royal United Services Institute, a former Young Leader of the French-American Foundation and the American Council on Germany, and a member of the American Association of Rhodes Scholars. | '''John A. Nagl''' is President of the [[Center for a New American Security]] (CNAS). He is also a member of the Defense Policy Board, a Visiting Professor in the War Studies Department at Kings College of London, a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Veterans of Foreign Wars, and a member of the International Institute of Strategic Studies. Dr. Nagl is a member of the Joint Force Quarterly Advisory Committee and of the Advisory Board of the Journal of the Royal United Services Institute, a former Young Leader of the French-American Foundation and the American Council on Germany, and a member of the American Association of Rhodes Scholars. | ||
==U.S. Army== | |||
While a military officer, he was in the team that wrote ''Field Manual 3-24: Counterinsurgency'', the basis of current doctrine in Afghanistan and Iraq, <ref name = FM3-24>{{citation | publisher = US Department of the Army | |||
| author = [[John Nagl]], [[David Petraeus]], [[James Amos]], [[Sarah Sewall]] | |||
| title = [[Field Manual 3-24: Counterinsurgency]] | |||
| date = December 2006 | |||
| url = http://www.fas.org/irp/doddir/army/fm3-24.pdf}}</ref> although he believes the subject is ever-developing and needs modifications for Afghanistan. <ref name=FP2009-01>{{citation | |||
| title =Counterinsurgency Field Manual: Afghanistan Edition | |||
| author = Nathaniel C. Fick, [[John Nagl]] | |||
| date = January/February 2009 | journal = [[Foreign Policy (magazine)]] | |||
| url = http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=4587&print=1}}</ref> | |||
His last military assignment was as commander of the 1st Battalion, 34th Armor at Fort Riley, Kansas, training Transition Teams that embed with Iraqi and Afghan units. He led a tank platoon in [[Operation Desert Storm]] and served as the operations officer of a tank battalion task force in [[Operation Iraqi Freedom]]. He earned his doctorate from Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. Nagl taught national security studies at West Point’s Department of Social Sciences and in Georgetown University’s Security Studies Program. He served as a Military Assistant to two Deputy Secretaries of Defense and later worked as a Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security. He was awarded the Combat Action Badge by General James Mattis of the United States Marine Corps, under whose leadership he fought in Al Anbar in 2004. | |||
==Education== | |||
*Master of the Military Arts and Sciences Degree from the [[Command and General Staff College]], where he received the George C. Marshall Award as the top graduate. | |||
*Distinguished Graduate, [[United States Military Academy]], 1988 | |||
Revision as of 19:44, 27 September 2009
John A. Nagl is President of the Center for a New American Security (CNAS). He is also a member of the Defense Policy Board, a Visiting Professor in the War Studies Department at Kings College of London, a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Veterans of Foreign Wars, and a member of the International Institute of Strategic Studies. Dr. Nagl is a member of the Joint Force Quarterly Advisory Committee and of the Advisory Board of the Journal of the Royal United Services Institute, a former Young Leader of the French-American Foundation and the American Council on Germany, and a member of the American Association of Rhodes Scholars.
U.S. Army
While a military officer, he was in the team that wrote Field Manual 3-24: Counterinsurgency, the basis of current doctrine in Afghanistan and Iraq, [1] although he believes the subject is ever-developing and needs modifications for Afghanistan. [2]
His last military assignment was as commander of the 1st Battalion, 34th Armor at Fort Riley, Kansas, training Transition Teams that embed with Iraqi and Afghan units. He led a tank platoon in Operation Desert Storm and served as the operations officer of a tank battalion task force in Operation Iraqi Freedom. He earned his doctorate from Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. Nagl taught national security studies at West Point’s Department of Social Sciences and in Georgetown University’s Security Studies Program. He served as a Military Assistant to two Deputy Secretaries of Defense and later worked as a Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security. He was awarded the Combat Action Badge by General James Mattis of the United States Marine Corps, under whose leadership he fought in Al Anbar in 2004.
Education
- Master of the Military Arts and Sciences Degree from the Command and General Staff College, where he received the George C. Marshall Award as the top graduate.
- Distinguished Graduate, United States Military Academy, 1988
- ↑ John Nagl, David Petraeus, James Amos, Sarah Sewall (December 2006), Field Manual 3-24: Counterinsurgency, US Department of the Army
- ↑ Nathaniel C. Fick, John Nagl (January/February 2009), "Counterinsurgency Field Manual: Afghanistan Edition", Foreign Policy (magazine)