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John A. Nagl (born 1966) is a retired Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Army. He is former president of the Center for a New American Security and current headmaster of The Haverford School. Nagl is an expert in counterinsurgency and has published two books on military strategy. ==Education and military career== Nagl was raised in Omaha, Nebraska, where he graduated from Creighton Preparatory School in 1984. He then attended the United States Military Academy at West Point, where he studied international relations and graduated near the top of his class in 1988. As a newly commissioned 2LT, he was chosen as a Rhodes Scholar and studied international relations at St John's College, Oxford, earning his MPhil in 1990. Entering the Armor Branch of the US Army, Nagl led a tank platoon in the 1st Cavalry Division during the Gulf War.〔"Maass">〕 After returning from the Middle East, he commanded A Troop of the 1st Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment in the 1st Armored Division in Büdingen, Germany and served as Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and Plans for the 24th Infantry Division at Fort Riley, Kansas. Nagl later returned to Oxford to earn his DPhil at St Antony's College in 1997. At Oxford, his focus was on counterinsurgency. Nagl's doctoral dissertation was a comparative study of the British and American militaries as they dealt with insurgencies in Malaya and Vietnam, respectively.〔 While at Oxford, he wrote several book reviews in a variety of military journals, focusing initially on the history of armoured warfare, and later on the Vietnam War and guerilla warfare. In 1997 Nagl was appointed as a social sciences professor at West Point. While teaching at West Point, he was affiliated with the Strategic Studies Institute at the United States Army War College 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Major John A. Nagl )〕 for which he co-authored a book on military professionalism in 1999.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Army Professionalism, the Military Ethic, and Officership in the 21st Century )〕 He later received the George C. Marshall Award for being the top graduate of the US Army Command and General Staff College in 2001. A revised version of his dissertation was published in 2002 as ''Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife'', titled after an observation made by T. E. Lawrence about the challenges of fighting guerilla forces. He deployed to Iraq in 2003 as the operations officer of the 1st Battalion, 34th Armor Regiment, 1st Infantry Division stationed near Khaldiya. While in Iraq, he was profiled in the New York Times Magazine in January 2004.〔 After returning from Iraq, Nagl served as military assistant to Paul Wolfowitz, then Deputy Secretary of Defense, and Wolfowitz's successor, Gordon England, until 2006. While he was military assistant to Wolfowitz and England, Nagl co-authored the new United States Army and Marine Corps Counterinsurgency field manual as part of a team overseen by Generals David Petraeus, the former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, and James N. Mattis, the former commander of United States Central Command. In 2006 Nagl was given command of the 1st Battalion, 34th Armor Regiment to help train MiTT teams, small groups of American soldiers tasked to develop the Afghan National Army and Iraqi security forces.〔Olmsted, Andrew. "From the Front Lines" RockyMountainNews.com Accessed September 4, 2007. ()〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Nagl」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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