Gian Gentile

		

				 
  	
		 		

			

	Award-winning historian, associate professor of history, and director of the military history program at the United States Military Academy at West Point. Author of How Effective is Strategic Bombing? Lessons Learned from World War II to Kosovo. A serving Army Colonel, commanded a combat battalion in West Baghdad in 2006. Currently working on a study on four sets of generals in counterinsurgency as a visiting fellow at the Council for Foreign Relations.

			
		

		

	

	


  

  

  

      


  
  

    

    
  
  
      

      


  

    	  
  

                
Beneficial War: The Conceit of American Counterinsurgency

  

  
  

                
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Posted On December 25, 2011 09:56 AM | Comments(15)

  

  
  

                

	A stake needs to be driven through the heart of the notion that counterinsurgency represents effective strategy.


  

		  
  

                
COIN is Dead: U.S. Army Must Put Strategy Over Tactics

  

  
  

                
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Posted On November 22, 2011 10:16 AM | Comments(15)

  

  
  

                

	In Iraq and Afghanistan, the American military embraced the idea that better tactics can overcome serious shortcomings in strategy and policy


  

		  
  

                
A Few Questions for Colonel Paul Yingling on Failures in Generalship

  

  
  

                
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Posted On October 11, 2011 05:17 AM | Comments(2)

  

  
  

                

	A Few Questions for Colonel Paul Yingling on Failures in Generalship by Colonel Gian P Gentile.


  

	  





  

    	  
  

                
Prine on Abrams and Primary Sources

  

  
  

                
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Posted On July 1, 2011 06:06 PM | Comments(59)

  

  
  

                
Carl Prine at "Prine's Line of Departure" has a very important post on the history of the Vietnam War, and specifically on the generalship of General  Creighton Abrams.  What prompted Carl's post was...


  

		  
  

                
The Death of the Armor Corps

  

  
  

                
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Posted On April 17, 2010 07:59 AM | Comments(67)

  

  
  

                
The Death of the Armor Corps
by Colonel Gian P. Gentile
Download the full article: The Death of the Armor Corps
The Armor Corps in the American Army is gone, it is no more.
The Army has become...


  

		  
  

                
Nation Building at the Barrel of an American Gun?

  

  
  

                
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Posted On September 13, 2009 08:19 AM | Comments(29)

  

  
  

                
Nation Building at the Barrel of an American Gun?
A Short Reply to the Dubik and Kagans' Washington Post Oped
Lieutenant General James Dubik, Dr Kim Kagan, and Dr Fred Kagan, the three authors of a...