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Kaplan’s caliber-the Slate Magazine columnist holds a PhD from MIT-the text is insightful and highly informative. As can be expected from an author-analyst of Mr.

Kaplan provides a digestible overview of the development of counterinsurgency doctrine culminating in a joint US Army and Marine Corps field manual (FM 3-24). The Insurgents is written in clear and rapid prose.

McMaster military advisors like Kalev Sepp and David Kilcullen and academics like Conrad Crane, Sarah Sewall, and Fred Kagan.) (From within it, added to this bold trio of soldier-scholars are a cast of characters familiar to the observer of military affairs: Influential generals like Pete Chiarelli, Jack Keane, Ray Odierno and H.R. All are spawned from WestPoint’s elitist incubator of critical thinking, the Social Sciences Department. Kaplan’s book through the stories of Generals John Galvin, David Petraeus and Lieutenant-Colonel Nagl. Given Nagl’s junior rank and age, he is cast as the unlikely agent provocateur at the center of the struggle to transform the US military into a ‘Learning Organization.’Ī triumvirate of revolutionary officers-mentors and protégés-emerges from Mr. His dissertation, Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife, compared the US Army’s campaign in Vietnam to the British Army’s in Malaya, on the premise that failure in the first case, and success in the second, was predicated upon each army’s ability to learn and to adapt. The story of how the US military was unstuck from its conventional mindset over the last decade of war begins with John Nagl, an Armored Cavalry officer who had fought in Desert Storm and then gone to Oxford to obtain his PhD. In other words, The Insurgents is the story of the wizards of less than Armageddon. This is the story of the ‘COINdinistas,’ the rebellious vanguard of officers and civilians who steered the US military towards adopting a different method of fighting their asymmetrical enemies.

Thirty years after chronicling the development of US nuclear strategy in The Wizards of Armageddon, Fred Kaplan has published a gripping tale about the makers of the latest revolution in warfare. For more information on accessing this file, please visit our help page.