John Nagl

		

				 
  	
		 		

			

	Dr. John Nagl is is teaching the “History of Modern Counterinsurgency Warfare” as the Minerva Professor in the Department of History at the U.S. Naval Academy. He is a former President of the Center for a New American Security.  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.

			
		

		

	

	


  

  

  

      


  
  

    

    
  
  
      

      


  

    	  
  

                
COIN Is Not Dead

  

  
  

                
 by Octavian Manea and John Nagl 

  

  
  

                
Posted On February 6, 2012 04:22 AM | Comments(38)

  

  
  

                

	Octavian Manea offers an interview with John Nagl who opines that "the savage wars of peace are still going to have an interest in us."


  

		  
  

                
Afghans must take ownership of security in 2012

  

  
  

                
 by John Nagl 

  

  
  

                
Posted On December 15, 2011 08:36 PM | Comments(0)

  

  
  

                

	It is time for Afghan forces to fully take charge of their national security


  

		  
  

                
Americans Can Agree that the Iraq War Was a Mistake

  

  
  

                
 by John Nagl 

  

  
  

                
Posted On December 14, 2011 03:23 PM | Comments(13)

  

  
  

                

	Overwhelmingly the American people would say the war was a mistake, and undeniably the reason we went to war in the first place was invalid


  

	  





  

    	  
  

                
National Italian American Foundation Veterans Event

  

  
  

                
 by John Nagl 

  

  
  

                
Posted On August 30, 2011 09:29 AM | Comments(0)

  

  
  

                

	Via e-mail from Guy Filippelli, Veterans Transition Program Chairman, National Italian American Foundation.


  

		  
  

                
The Accidental Guerrilla

  

  
  

                
 by John Nagl 

  

  
  

                
Posted On June 18, 2009 05:21 PM | Comments(1)

  

  
  

                

The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One by Dr. David Kilcullen.
I'd like to share with the Small Wars Journal community my review of Dr. David Kilcullen's The...


  

		  
  

                
International Relations in the 21st Century

  

  
  

                
 by John Nagl 

  

  
  

                
Posted On March 2, 2009 10:41 AM | Comments(10)

  

  
  

                
I have previously argued that, while the central problem of international relations in the 20th century was states that were too strong (Germany, Imperial Japan, the Soviet Union), the primary...