"Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife"

Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons in Malaya in Vietnam. by John Nagl.

Anyone in the OT ever read this?

I'm currently reading this novel. Its written about how a failure to adopt tactics by the U.S. Army is what caused the failure in Vietnam. Its often said that the military never lost a battle in Nam. This is technically true but the book talks about upper Army officers quashing and ignoring advice from junior officers, the Marine Corps, the British and even politicians about how to effectively fight insurgency wars. Its a pretty good and interesting read.

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