Review: John Nagl, ‘Knife Fights: A Memoir of Modern War in Theory and Practice’
Shortly after 1st Lt. John Nagl led the tankers of Red Platoon, Alpha Company, First Battalion, 32nd Armor to their share of a crushing victory over the hopelessly outmatched Iraqi army in Operation Desert Storm, the leadership of the U.S. defense establishment allowed itself a moment of self-congratulation. The stain of Vietnam had been washed away. The military, and in particular the Army, had finally been able to fight the war it had always wanted to fight: no insurgents blending into the population, no jungle, no mountains, no (significant) protests on the homefront—just Iraqi fish in a vast, open barrel.
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WNU Editor: Counterinsurgency warfare takes time, patience, and having enough manpower and resources on the ground to get the job done. This has not been a priority for the Obama administration nor supported by much of the American public... as a result the ancient hatreds, tribalism, and religious sectarianism in the Middle East have resulted in all of us now seeing death and destruction being committed on an industrial scale in the Middle East. My prediction is that in the future this policy decision to disengage in 2011 will be regarded as a mistake of historical proportions .... just as much as the 2003 decision by President Bush to invade Iraq.
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