Insurgency
Professor Nagl’s War is a New York Times magazine article about Major John Nagl, a counter-insurgency expert who’s currently putting theory into practice in Iraq.
He is like a paleontologist given the chance to go back in time and walk with the dinosaurs. But Nagl can’t simply stand around and take notes. He is responsible, with the rest of his battalion, for taming an insurgency, which is as difficult as teaching dinosaurs to dance.
Whether or not you buy the so-called "hard-liner" doctrine for preemptive war, which I definitely do not, the nature of war is changing. As journalist Peter Maass levelheadedly explains, occupying forces straddle a dangerous and uniquley complicated line between chaos and order.
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