by John A. Nagl
Operation Knight Strike, 16
Operation Netscape, 75
organizational learning chart, 38
Oxford University, 5, 26, 28, 29, 38, 40, 41, 49, 50, 53, 69, 79, 81, 158
Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG), 39
Pace, Peter, 118, 162, 187
Packer, George, 129, 183
Pakistan, 3, 138, 185–87, 193, 197, 199, 201, 206–7, 210, 217, 219, 221, 226–29, 235, 238, 239
Pakistani Army, 206
Pakistani Taliban, 206, 228
Palin, Sarah, 180
Panetta, Leon, 221, 234
Paris Peace Talks, 136
Parker, Jay, 41, 43
Parks, Sheldon, 65, 72
Patriquin, Travis, 172
Patton, George, 42
Petraeus, David, 41–43, 53, 60–61, 64, 118, 121–26, 121, 156, 163, 166–70, 172–73, 176, 177, 182, 183, 198, 200–205, 209–10, 214–15, 217, 220, 246, 247
Bremer and, 77
Broadwell and, 161, 208–9
counterinsurgency manual and, 128, 129–32, 137, 156, 157
Keane and, 162
son of, 103
Syria and, 234
Yingling and, 148
Petraeus, Holly, 203
Pfaff, Tony, 47
Philippines, 213, 221
Pinker, Stephen, 224
Places in Between, The (Stewart), 194
population growth, 223, 226, 232
Powell, Colin, 45–46, 59, 62, 109–10
Powell-Weinberger Doctrine, 46, 53
Power, Samantha, 165
Praeger Press, 52, 92, 120, 132
Program for the Pacification and Long-Term Development of South Vietnam (PROVN), 36
Qaddafi, Muammar, 223, 233–34
Raddatz, Martha, 175
Ramadi, 67–68, 72, 76, 168
Rayburn, Joel, 176
Red Aces, 6–7
Reidel, Bruce, 190, 192
Republican Guard, 17
Revolutionary War, 42, 43
revolution in military affairs (RMA), 29–30
Rice, Condoleezza, 109, 143–44
Rickover, Hyman, 50
Ricks, Thomas, 149
Riggs, Scott “Turtle,” 10, 21
Robinson, Linda, 61
Rolling Stone, 202
Romans, 81–82, 237
Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare), 88
Roosevelt, Theodore, 248–49
Rumsfeld, Donald, 61–63, 67, 73, 109–13, 118, 122, 130, 142, 144–46, 148–49, 156, 160–62
firing of, 148–49, 214
Saddam Hussein, 3, 5–6, 11, 13, 14, 16, 19, 59, 61, 62, 64, 111, 122, 139, 145, 211, 212, 214, 216, 230, 231, 238
capture of, 89, 91
Sadr City, 169
Saigon, 208, 229
Sanchez, Ricardo, 112, 113, 117, 139
Santoriello, Neil, 104–5
Saudi Arabia, 13, 14, 228, 233
Scales, Robert, 147
Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr., 2, 220–21
Schoomaker, Peter, 113, 119, 122
Schwarzkopf, H. Norman, 19
SCUD missiles, 11–12
Security Forces (SECFOR), 152
Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 193–94, 216–17
Sepp, Kalev “Gunnar,” 116–17, 120, 124, 127, 140
September 11 attacks, 55–56, 111, 117, 159, 218, 221, 227, 229
Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph (Lawrence), 31, 239
Sewall, Sarah, 123–24, 126, 129, 144, 164, 165
Shakespeare, William, 88
Shapiro, Jacob, 170
Sheehan, Michael, 120
Shias, 73, 77, 96, 139, 149, 162, 168, 176, 217
Shi’ites, 169
Shinseki, Ric, 61–62, 108
Shoemaker, Ted “Shoe,” 8–9, 9, 11, 17–19, 57, 154
Simpson, Erin, 115
Singh, Vikram, 144
Skelton, Ike, 61, 148
Small, Jesse, 240
Small Wars Manual (U.S. Marine Corps), 164, 213
Smith, Brian, 104
Smith, Jim, 49
Snider, Don, 47
Snowden, Edward, 222
social media, 223, 237
Solzenitsyn, Alexander, 223
Somalia, 52, 91, 138, 217, 224
Sons of Iraq, 172, 176
Sorley, Bob, 145
South Korea, 105, 196
Soviet Union, 3, 135, 212, 223–25, 235
Afghanistan and, 185, 200, 208, 216, 225, 228
Cold War, 19, 24, 46, 59, 110, 135–36, 213, 219, 225, 237–38
Srebrenica, 27
Stavridis, Jim, 174
Stewart, Jon, 165–66
Stewart, Rory, 193–94
Strongest Tribe, The (West), 175
Suleiman, Lieutenant Colonel, 96, 98–99, 101, 113
Summers, Harry, 136, 219
Sunflower Press, 164
Sunni Awakening, 167, 173, 214
Sunnis, 64, 65, 66, 73, 96, 139, 149, 162, 168–69, 173, 217
Supreme Headquarters of the Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE), 42, 60
Sustaining U.S. Global Leadership: Priorities for 21st Century Defense, 221
Swat Valley, 228
Swisher, Jeff, 66, 67, 69, 71, 72, 84, 88, 91, 104–5
Syria, 196, 212, 221, 223, 227, 231, 234–36, 239
Taiwan, 196, 225
Taji, 140
Tal Afar, 141, 142, 170
“Tale of Two Battles, A” (Nagl), 24
Taliban, 3, 56, 58, 117, 157, 185–87, 194–95, 197–98, 200, 201, 204–8, 210, 216–17, 219, 227–29
Pakistani, 206, 228
Tanham, George, 120
Taqquadam Airfield (TQ), 73, 105
Teamey, Kyle, 124–25, 127
Tell Me How This Ends: General David Petraeus and the Search for a Way Out of Iraq (Robinson), 61
Templer, Gerald, 34, 117, 145, 196
Terrill, W. Andrew, 59–60
Thomas, Jim, 114
Tiananmen Square, 236
Tibbets, Nate, 180
Time, 61, 146
Toffler, Alvin, 136
Tora Bora Mountains, 186
Traugott, Chris, 107
Treaty of Westphalia, 222
Trinquier, Roger, 120
Truman, Harry, 215, 224
Tryneski, John, 163–64
Tunisia, 232–33
Turner, Brian, xi
Turquoise Mountains, 194
Twain, Mark, 62
Twitter, 223
University of Chicago Press, 163–65
UN Security Council, 233, 236
urbanization, 223, 226, 237
U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual, The (Sewall, Nagl, Petraeus, and Amos), 124–28, 151, 155–57, 161, 163–67, 245
Afghanistan and, 201, 203, 205
campaign design in, 131–32, 131, 138
Chiarelli/Michaelis diagram in, 133–35, 133
civilian casualties and, 201
“clear, hold, and build” technique in, 141, 170
competitions in learning in, 130
Daily Show and, 165–66
on executing counterinsurgency operations, 132–34
influence of, 138
information operations not included in, 135
McChrystal and, 201, 203
on nonmilitary tasks, 134–35
review conference on, 128, 129
on top priority in counterinsurgency, 130
University of Chicago edition of, 163–65
U.S. Information Agency (USIA), 135–36
U.S. military superiority, 223, 225
Valeriano, Napoleon, 120
Vann, John Paul, 201
Varga, Susanne “Susi,” 6, 20–21, 24, 26, 28, 29, 31, 39, 43, 45, 48, 48, 55, 71, 107, 157–58, 173, 244, 248–50, 251
Jack’s birth and, 56
marriage of, 25–26, 26, 71
move to Alexandria, 174
move to Philadelphia, 251
Vietnam War, 3, 13, 15, 16, 19–22, 27, 34–40, 45–47, 52, 55, 61, 69, 85, 86, 92, 101, 103, 113, 120, 136, 143, 145, 162, 177, 201, 211–19, 224, 231–32, 239
British campaign in Malaya compared with, 31, 32, 34, 37
Dien Bien Phu, 34, 224
fall of Saigon, 208, 229
information technology and, 136–37, 223
Tet Offensive, 36
Wadi Al Batin, 9, 11, 14, 16
Waghelstein, John, 116
Wall Street Journal, 92, 129
Walt, Stephen, 230–31
Washington, George, 42, 43, 60
Washington Post, 175, 177
West, Bing, 175, 176
Westmoreland, William, 35, 36, 145, 213
West Point, 29, 39–45, 47–50, 86, 88, 103, 107, 122, 169, 198, 199, 243–47, 251
What It Is Like to Go to War (Marlantes), 16
Wilson, Doug, 181–82
Wolfowitz, Paul, 61–62, 108–11, 111, 114, 119, 121–22, 125–26, 142
“Won’t Get Fooled Again” (Newbold), 61, 146
World Affairs, 47
World War I, 31, 55, 136, 154, 224, 237
World War II, 3, 32, 55, 63, 136, 154, 222, 224, 237, 240
Yemen, 138, 217, 232, 235, 239
Yingling, Paul, 44–45, 44, 51, 94, 142, 146–48, 148, 158, 209
Young, Liz, 45
* published in the Journal of the Royal United Services Institute, December 2007