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" This was a really useful book for me because it helped me to increase my knowledge about Vietnam (which was pretty small beforehand) and provide some extremely useful and insightful ideas about the counterinsurgency efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Although the ideas that Nagl brings up in the book about the proper way to fight an insurgency (mostly taken from the lessons the British learned in Malaya) can't necessarily be called a roadmap for peace I'm hard pressed to think that a lot of them wouldn't work very well in America's current wars. President for a day huh. If you're interested in either Vietnam or ways out of Iraq and Afghanistan I would definitely recommend this book. "
- Andrew, 2/1/2014
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" Nagl compares the British and American approaches to counterinsurgency (in Malaya and Vietnam) through the lens of organizational design. An excellent book for thinking about how information flows in organizations with a number of great historic examples of how organizations 'choose' to learn or to not learn from the world around them. "
- Gavin, 1/22/2014
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" .... kind of into the immediatly relevant stuff now, but great history about the difference between a freedom fighter and an insurgent without all the media confusion "
- Dustin, 1/9/2014
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" Excellent. It was beyond thoroughly researched... Simply amazing. I would be interested in seeing Nagl take a deeper look at the Malaysian conflict. Not much to say beyond this. "
- Jared, 12/14/2013
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" kind of dry. read it more for business strategy than military strategy. there's not a lot of new stuff in that regard, but it's interesting from an historical perspective. "
- xtian, 12/11/2013
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" The paperback edition adds a very interesting introduction in which Col. Nagl discusses his recent experiences in Iraq in light of the lessons in this book. "
- carl, 12/9/2013
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" I learned a new way to fight the low intensity conflict with asymmetric weapon and unconventional tactic in a new kind of warfare. Gotta go to find another reference book. "
- Tintin, 12/8/2013
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" Really good, just like the new COIN field manual, and probably ultimately just as dangerously misleading. "
- BAKU, 9/5/2013
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" Ok, not much detail on how to fight an insurgency. "
- Scott, 5/25/2013
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" A little dry, being based on heavily researched and quoted material. But the essence is that counterinsurgency requires agile tactical and political skills, which the British model embraces and the US military command was incapable of. "
- Michael, 4/4/2013
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" The book compares the counter insurgency strategies of British in the Malayan Emergency and the Americans in Vietnam. Really confirmed my views on why the US Army is a backward institution despite its technological superiority. "
- Carlo, 10/15/2012
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" Tightly composed, assertive and incisve study of military organisational learning. Could probably benefit from recognition of basic diffences in the xontext of the Malayan and Indochina conflicts. Just as we can't transfer the Vietnam learning to the Sfghanistan conflict "
- Jan, 10/10/2012
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