Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam¶
Nagl, J. A. (2002). Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam. Praeger.
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- Attrition Trap
- Within the home domain this is mechanism, not analogy — and notably, the political-clock-asymmetry lesson is one of the few transfers the COIN literature itself explicitly emphasises from one campaign to the next
This sourceThe comparative study of Malaya and Vietnam that asks why the British army learned to adapt to counterinsurgency while the American army did not, and records the lessons mission Britain sent to Vietnam.
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“better able to learn quickly and apply the lessons of counterinsurgency during the course of the malayan emergency”
- Within the home domain this is mechanism, not analogy — and notably, the political-clock-asymmetry lesson is one of the few transfers the COIN literature itself explicitly emphasises from one campaign to the next
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