Professor of Warfighting Studies
John A. Nagl is a professor of warfighting studies in the Department of Military Strategy, Planning, and Operations at the US Army War College. A United States Military Academy graduate and retired Armor officer, Nagl served in tank units in combat in Operation Desert Storm and Operation Iraqi Freedom. He attended Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, earning his master's and doctoral degrees in international relations. His doctoral dissertation was published as Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam (University of Chicago, 2005). He earned the George C. Marshall Award and a master of military art and science (MMAS) degree at the Army Command and General Staff College. Upon retirement from the Army, Nagl served as a senior fellow and later as the president of the Center for a New American Security and as a member of the Defense Policy Board and the Reserve Forces Policy Board. He was the first Minerva Research professor at the United States Naval Academy, writing the book Knife Fights: A Memoir of Modern War in Theory and Practice (Penguin Press, 2014), and served for eight years as the ninth head of the Haverford School outside Philadelphia. Nagl was a Fellow of the Irregular Warfare Initiative in 2023 and has taught at West Point and Georgetown University; he is currently a Professorial Lecturer at George Washington University and a Senior Fellow at CNAS and at the Foreign Policy Research Institute.
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About John Nagl
John A. Nagl is a professor of warfighting studies in the Department of Military Strategy, Planning, and Operations at the US Army War College. A United States Military Academy graduate and retired Armor officer, Nagl served in tank units in combat in Operation Desert Storm and Operation Iraqi Freedom. He attended Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, earning his master's and doctoral degrees in international relations. His doctoral dissertation was published as Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam (University of Chicago, 2005). He earned the George C. Marshall Award and a master of military art and science (MMAS) degree at the Army Command and General Staff College. Upon retirement from the Army, Nagl served as a senior fellow and later as the president of the Center for a New American Security and as a member of the Defense Policy Board and the Reserve Forces Policy Board. He was the first Minerva Research professor at the United States Naval Academy, writing the book Knife Fights: A Memoir of Modern War in Theory and Practice (Penguin Press, 2014), and served for eight years as the ninth head of the Haverford School outside Philadelphia. Nagl was a Fellow of the Irregular Warfare Initiative in 2023 and has taught at West Point and Georgetown University; he is currently a Professorial Lecturer at George Washington University and a Senior Fellow at CNAS and at the Foreign Policy Research Institute.
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