This is pretty this is press pass. Taking a look at how we wage war in the modern age from the point of view of one soldier who studied it in the classroom. Lieutenant colonel john nagle fought in both gulf cars. He is out with his own book knife fight. He joins me now. The review of your book from Foreign Policy magazine had an interesting way of juxtaposing the issue of vietnam and you do it yourself in here is basically the u. S. Army specifically and the military community overlearned the lessons of vietnam particularly that is how the first gulf war was fought but then under learned other lessons. How much of the Counter Insurgency manual basically comes right out of lessons from vietnam . An extraordinary amount of it. A whole generation of Army Officers. David petraeus who did his own doctoral work at princeton on vietnam. My doctoralal work at oxford led to my first book. The generation of Army Officers was fascinated by how the army had done so badly in vietnam, how the worlds
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Answers. I ended last nights show with an Economic Forecast of sorts. I called it gently cloud and while i would not be using my umbrella just yet i would consider carrying one with me just in case. Well, just in case happened today. The southbound 500 fell as much as 2. 9 . The dow lost 460 points. Its biggest single day point drop in three years. The dow swung 600 points in two hours. It finally closed 173 points lower for the day. When youre relieved that the dow is just down 173 points. What was it this point . Was the slowing economy . Ripe for prophet taking . The possibility of a recession in europe triggered by the conflict between russia and ukraine. The seemingly endless threat of terrorism or another person infected in the United States with ebola. It could be some, all or none. If you dont know why this is happening you cant protect yourself. Over the course of the next hour i will speak with economists and Public Health experts. And the man who wrote the book army general.
You have questions and we have answers. I ended last nights show with an Economic Forecast of sorts. I called it gently cloud and while i would not be using my umbrella just yet i would consider carrying one with me just in case. Well, just in case happened today. The southbound 500 fell as much as 2. 9 . The dow lost 460 points. Its biggest single day point drop in three years. The dow swung 600 points in two hours. It finally closed 173 points lower for the day. When youre relieved that the dow is just down 173 points. What was it this point . Was the slowing economy . Ripe for prophet taking . The possibility of a recession in europe triggered by the conflict between russia and ukraine. The seemingly endless threat of terrorism or another person infected in the United States with ebola. It could be some, all or none. If you dont know why this is happening you cant protect yourself. Over the course of the next hour i will speak with economists and Public Health experts. And the man w