Last Saturday on the NARN, we interviewed Lt. Col. John A. Nagl, author of Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam. This was our second interview with Lt. Col. Nagl and his comments were once again honest, insightful, and thought provoking.
He literally has helped write the book on counterinsurgency and his message on Iraq is that while progress is being made, he fears it won't be enough to keep the political clock in Washington from running out. Successful counterinsurgencies have typically taken about nine years and he believes that because of the circumstances in Iraq and Afghanistan, the efforts in those countries will require an even longer time commitment.
It remains an open question whether America has the will and fortitude to see them through. The answer will be a determining factor in whether we have a safer or more dangerous world in the next thirty years.
You can listen to (or download) the whole interview here.
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