Striking the Balance

Abstract

The Way Forward in Iraq John A. Nagl and Brian M. Burton John A. Nagl is a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) and the author of Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam (University of Chicago, 2005). He was also a member of the writing team that produced the U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual and has recently returned from visits to Iraq and Afghanistan sponsored by U.S. forces there. Brian M. Burton is a research assistant at CNAS and a graduate student in the security studies program at Georgetown University.