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Abizaid, John, 140, 157, 161
Abrams, Creighton, 36, 145, 213
Abu Abid, 168
Abu Ghraib, 76
Afghanistan, 2–3, 56, 58, 117, 122, 138, 152, 158–60, 163, 171–73, 175, 177, 183, 185–210, 213, 215–21, 226–29, 232, 234, 236, 238–40
COIN Academy in, 188, 189, 189, 192
Counterinsurgency Field Manual and, 201, 203, 205
government in, 206–8, 218–19, 229–30
increased troop strength in, 197–200, 204–5, 217, 232
map of, xii–xiii
Pakistan and, 185–87, 193, 197, 199, 201, 206–7, 210, 217, 219, 227–28
rural nature of insurgency in, 186
Soviet Union and, 185, 200, 208, 216, 225, 228
withdrawal of troops from, 199–200, 204, 217, 232
Afghan National Army, 198–99, 205
Afghan Police and Local Police, 198–99, 203, 205
AfPak hands, 191–92, 205
Africa, 221
agricultural-age warfare, 136
Air Force Academy, 244
AirSea Battle, 225
Al Anbar Awakening, 172, 176
Al Anbar Province, 66–106, 108, 113, 131, 143, 161, 166, 168, 172–73, 177, 200, 203, 209, 230, 252
Alaska National Guard (Nanooks), 22–25, 28, 46, 66
Al Askari Mosque, 138–39
Al Batin, 11, 12
Alexander the Great, 30
Algeria, 120, 132
All In: The Education of General David Petraeus (Broadwell), 161, 209
al-Maliki, Nouri, 169
Alpha Company (Ghostriders), 7, 15–16, 21–22
Al Qaeda, 3, 52, 185, 186, 200, 207, 208, 210, 212, 217–18, 227–28, 233, 235
Al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), 89–91, 93–94, 104, 113, 138–39, 167, 168, 173
Annapolis, 243–45, 247, 251
Apache Troop, 27–28
Arab Spring, 223–26, 231
Armed Forces Journal, 142, 146
Armitage, Rich, 110
Armor, 24, 27
Armor Officer Advanced Course, 24
Army, 245, 246
increase in size of, 171
Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual, The, see U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual, The
Army War College, 143
Arnold, Benedict, 43
Assad, Bashar All, 223, 234–35
Assassin’s Gate, The (Packer), 129
Assembly, 103
Atkinson, Rick, 60–61
Atlantic Monthly, 129, 137
August, Matt, 94–95
Augustine, Saint, 237
Ayers, Nick, 69
Ba’ath Party, 63, 112, 146
“Back in Baghdad: This Time, Things Are Looking Up” (Nagl), 177
Baghdad, 62, 64, 67, 77, 112, 113, 117, 121, 134, 139, 144, 161, 166–69, 175, 176–77, 198, 220
T-walls in, 176, 186
Banana Wars, 213
Bangladesh, 226
Barno, Dave, 190–91
Basin Harbor conference, 116–18, 124, 129, 131, 140
Basra, 169
Belcher, Gary, 177
Ben Ali, Zine El Abidine, 232
Better Angels of Our Nature, The (Pinker), 224
Biddle, Steve, 170, 192, 194, 216–17
Biden, Joe, 194–95, 202
bin Laden, Osama, 185, 186, 206–7, 228
killing of, 207, 217, 222–23, 235
Bismarck, Otto von, 212
Black Hawk Down, 91
Black Knights, 15, 16
Blackwater contractors, 95–96, 99, 100
Bohannan, Charles, 120
Booker, Cedric, 26
Bosnia, 27–28, 29–30, 44, 52, 61, 62, 224
Bouazizi, Mohamed, 232
Bremer, Paul, 63, 64, 77–78, 97, 112, 146
Brimley, Shawn, 175
British Malaya, 31–34, 37, 85, 176–77, 196
Broadwell, Paula, 161, 208–9
Bryant, Todd, 86–88, 90, 93, 105, 240
Büdingen, 26–27
Buffy, 10
Burton, Brian, 182–83
Bush, George H. W., 11–13, 19
Bush, George W., 62, 86, 88, 109–11, 113, 118, 140–41, 148–49, 160–61, 172, 177, 190, 195–96, 214, 217, 231
Iraq troop surge and, 161–63
Rumsfeld fired by, 148–49, 214
Caldera, Louis, 108
Campbell, Kurt, 159–60, 180, 181
Camp Buckner, 48–49
Camp Funston, 154, 174
Camp Habbaniyah, 72–74, 76, 83, 90, 91, 100, 101
Casey, George, 112–13, 117, 139–41, 156, 161, 162, 166, 187–88, 190
Center for a New American Security (CNAS), 159–60, 174–75, 177–83, 182, 189, 191, 243, 244, 247
Nagl selected as president of, 180, 192
Center for Naval Analysis, 158
Center for Strategic and International Studies, 159
Charlie Wilson’s War (Criles), 185
Charlie Wilson’s War (film), 208
Cheney, Dick, 118, 148–49
Chesterfield, Lord, 214–15
Chiarelli, Peter, 133–35, 148, 155, 158, 172, 247
China, 215, 224, 225, 235–36
Churchill, Winston, 214
CIA, 185
Civil War, 16, 136
Clark, Dave, 247
Claudio, Pablo, 5–8
climate change, 223, 226, 231
Clinton, Bill, 45, 144, 160, 209
Clinton, Hillary, 177, 231, 234
Clutterbuck, Richard, 32–33
Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA), 63, 64, 112
Cockerham, Gray, 12
Cody, Richard, 108, 112–13, 126, 151
Cohen, Eliot, 116, 120, 124, 126, 137
COIN Academy–Afghanistan, 188, 189, 189, 192
Cold War, 19, 24, 46, 59, 110, 135–36, 213, 219, 225, 237–38
Cole, USS, 52
Coll, Steve, 175–76
Collins, John, 111
Combined Action Platoon, 35
Command and General Staff College (CGSC), 51–52
Commander’s Emergency Response Program (CERP), 82, 85
Communism, 215–16, 223
Communist Revolutionary Warfare: From the Vietminh to the Viet Cong (Tanham), 120
computing power, 222
Cooper, Walt, 45
Counter-Guerilla Operations: The Philippine Experience (Valeriano and Bohannan), 120
counterinsurgency, 2, 29–34, 45, 47, 50, 65, 69, 77–78, 81–82, 85, 88, 89, 92, 116–17, 123–28, 142–44, 153, 161
barrier creation and, 176
Basin Harbor conference on, 116–18, 124, 129, 131, 140
books on, 120
counterintuitive nature of, 127
field manual on, see U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual, The
and learning from past mistakes, 211–41
Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam, see Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife
Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice (Galula), 120, 132–33, 164–65, 245
Cox, Joe, 251
Cox, Kathy, 251
Crane, Conrad, 59–61, 126–27, 130, 137, 164, 230
Criles, George, 185
Cuban Missile Crisis, 224
Cucolo, Tony, 165–66
Cunningham, Sergeant First Class, 15–16
Custer Hill, 154
Cutchall, Christopher, 75, 88
Daffron, Steve, 41, 43, 247
Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The, 165–66
Dammam, 6, 12
Davidson, Janine, 115, 129, 144, 209
Davis, Jud, 8–9, 9
Defense Department, 110, 145, 153, 213–14
Directive 30000.05 of, 144–45
Minerva program of, 243, 244
Strategic Guidance of, 221
Defense Science Board, 144
DeGroat, Art, 156n
Democratic Peace Theorem, 195
democratization, 195–96, 206
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (DASD), 144
Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam (McMaster), 92, 141
Dien Bien Phu, 34, 224
Downie, Richard, 37, 131
Dunwoody, Ann, 172
Egypt, 196, 223, 227, 232, 233, 239
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 34, 42, 224
England, Gordon, 144–45
Euphrates River, 72, 74, 76, 80, 93, 94
explosive ordnance detachment (EOD), 75–76
Exum, Andrew, 192
“Failure in Generalship, A” (Yingling and Nagl), 146–48
Fallon, William “Fox,” 157
Fallows, James, 129, 137
Fallujah, 68, 72, 95–96, 98–101, 113–14
Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq (Ricks), 149
Fields, Craig, 144
Feith, Doug, 64
Fick, Nate, 174–75, 180–81, 190, 192
Filkins, Dexter, 201
First Cavalry Division, 6–19, 30, 99–100
First Infantry Division, 17, 28, 55
Flournoy, Michèle, 159–60, 180, 181, 190, 244
Floyd, Price, 182
Fort Hood, 5–6, 19, 24, 71
Fort Irwin, 21–22
Fort Knox, 5, 24
Fort Riley, 53, 55–56, 58–60, 65, 67, 86–87, 104–5, 107, 108, 119, 151–55, 159, 171, 173, 186–88, 198
Franks, Tommy, 112
Friedman, Jeffrey, 170
Frist, Bill, 162
Fuller, J. F. C., 30–31
Future Combat System, 30
Future Shock (Toffler), 136
Galula, David, 117, 120–21, 132, 134, 155, 164–65, 205, 245
Galvin, Jack, 42, 45–46
Garner, Jay, 63, 112
Gates, Robert, 70, 149, 155–56, 156, 158, 160–61, 171, 172, 182, 191, 200, 214, 217, 221, 237, 238, 243
Gentile, Gian, 220
George C. Marshall Award, 52–53
Geren, Peter, 142–43, 171–72
Germany, 63, 237
Ghostriders (Alpha Company), 7, 15–16, 21–22
Ghostrider Six, 10
Ghost Wars (Coll), 175
Gingrich, Newt, 92–93, 113, 118, 119
globalization, 223, 237
global warming, 223, 226, 231
Golby, Jim, 45
Grafenwöhr, 27
Graham, Jeff, 103, 216
Graham, Kevin, 103
Graham, Mark, 103
Green Revolution, 223
guerrilla warfare, 30–31, 33, 238
Gulag Archipelago, The (Solzenitsyn), 223
Haas, Richard, 227
Habbaniyah, 72–74, 76, 83, 90, 91, 100, 101
Ham, Carter, 166
Hammes, T. X., 116, 124
Harrison, Sergeant, 7–8
Hastings, Michael, 202
Haverford School, 248–53, 251
Helmer, Dan, 188, 189, 189
Helmick, Frank, 58, 108–9, 121–22, 125–26, 151, 191
“Here Bullet” (Turner), xi
History of Counterinsurgency Warfare (Marston and Malkasian), 245
Ho Chi Minh, 215
Hoffman, Frank, 131
Hoffman, James, 94–95
Homa, Matt, 86, 87
Horvath, Jan, 123, 127, 137
Howard, Michael, 37–38, 213
Hufstedler, Doyle, 103–4, 104
Hussein, Major, 98, 101–2
IEDs, 75–76, 82, 86, 88, 95, 100, 102–4, 143
In a Time of War (Murphy), 88
Indermuehle, Dave, 70–72
industrial-age warfare, 136
information revolution, 136–37, 222–24, 226
Ingram, Jeff, 60, 64, 75, 77, 174
“Institutionalizing Adaptation: It’s Time for a Permanent Army Advisor Corps” (Nagl), 158–60
International Security, 170
International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), 198
Internet, 223, 237
In the Company of Soldiers (Atkinson), 60–61
Iran, 223, 227
Iraq, 2–3, 5–19, 58–106, 139–49, 185–91, 195, 196, 198, 201, 204, 211–21, 226–27, 230–31, 233, 235, 236, 238–41
Al Anbar Province, 66–106, 108, 113, 131, 143, 161, 166, 168, 172–73, 177, 200, 203, 209, 230, 252
Al Qaeda in, 89–91, 93–94, 104, 113, 138–39, 167, 168, 173
costs of second war in, 211–12
Khalidiyah, 67–68, 72, 73, 78–80, 82, 84, 92, 949, 95, 97, 101–3, 105, 121, 173, 176–77, 203, 252
Operation Desert Shield, 6, 9, 11, 25
Operation Desert Storm, 19, 21, 24, 25, 30, 40, 44, 46, 51–52, 55, 57, 63, 65, 68, 71, 72, 75, 85, 92, 99, 177, 211–12, 224, 225, 230
reduction in violence in, 169–70, 177, 178–79
surge troops sent to, 161–63, 166–67, 169, 192, 204, 217
“sweep and clear” strategy in, 143
in 2007–2008, 151–83
Washington fight and, 107–28
Iraqi Air Force, 73
Iraqi Army, 63–65, 77, 96–97, 97, 98, 101–2, 112, 121, 139, 146, 169, 176, 198, 214
Iraqi Civil Defense Corps (ICDC), 96–99, 101, 105
Iraqi Police (IP), 78–81, 84, 89–90, 99–100, 103, 139, 176
Ishmael, Brigadier General, 99–101
Islamic extremism, 135, 193
Israel, 231, 233
Jaffe, Greg, 92, 129
Japan, 63
Johnson, Harold K., 35–36
Johnson, Lyndon B., 215, 224
Johnson, Pete “Blue One,” 10, 20, 20
Kabul, 198, 207, 210, 218, 219, 228–29
COIN Academy in, 188, 189, 189, 192
Kagan, Fred, 192
Kahl, Colin, 144, 175
Kandahar, 197
Kaplan, Fred, 142
Karzai, Hamid, 195, 196, 229
Kaufman, Daniel, 39–41, 40, 42–43, 246, 247
Kaufman, Kathryn, 40
Keane, Jack, 46–47, 162, 183, 204
Kebble, Jim, 8, 12
Kennedy, Chris, 74
Kennedy, John F., 34–35, 215, 224
Khalidiyah, 67–68, 72, 73, 78–80, 82, 84, 92, 949, 95, 97, 101–3, 105, 121, 173, 176–77, 203, 252
Kilcullen, David, 114–16, 115, 117, 120, 123, 124, 129, 139, 163, 208–9
Kilcullen, Harry, 115
Korea, 105, 196, 233
Korean War, 224
Kuehl, Dale, 168, 169
Kuwait, 5–6, 13, 16, 71–72, 230
Lacquement, Rich, 124, 127, 144
Lawrence, T. E., 31, 34, 47, 172, 215, 235, 239
Learning from Conflict: The U.S. Military in Vietnam, El Salvador, and the Drug War (Downie), 37
Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam (Nagl), 31, 52, 56, 78, 89, 92–93, 113–15, 118–20, 140, 142, 163, 191, 245
Lebanon, 224
Lehrer, Jim, 46–47
Leners, Marty, 57, 69, 72
Libya, 196, 212, 221, 223, 227, 232–34, 236
Lieberman, Joe, 180
Ling, Roger, 103, 216
Long Gray Line, The (Atkinson), 60
Lord, Kristin, 181–82
Lute, Doug, 159
M1 Abrams tank, 13
M1A1 tank, 13–14, 17, 23, 57–58
Maass, Peter, 88–89, 91–92, 108, 116
MacArthur, Douglas, 42, 224
MacFarland, Sean, 172–73
Maddow, Rachel, 199
Malaya, 31–35, 37, 85, 145, 176–77, 196
Malayan Emergency, 140, 213
Malaysia, 32
Malkasian, Carter, 158, 245
Manning, Bradley, 222
Mao Zedong, 101, 245
Marine Corps Small Wars Manual, 164, 213
Marjah, 200–201
Marlantes, Karl, 16
Marston, Daniel, 245
Martins, Mark, 204
Mattis, Jim, 95–96, 99, 128, 130–31, 166
Mauldin, Bill, 146
McAllister, John “Mac,” 9, 9
McCain, John, 160, 177, 180
McCary, John, 83, 84, 92
McChrystal, Stanley, 172, 191–94, 197, 200–202
McKiernan, David, 189–91
McMaster, H. R., 92, 129, 141–43, 163, 170–72, 203, 206
Mearsheimer, John, 230–31
Meese, Mike, 122
Meigs, Montgomery, 28
Metz, Steve, 114–15
Michaelis, Patrick, 133–35, 155
Military Operations Other Than War (MOOTW), 27
Military Review, 117, 123, 127, 133–34, 137, 140, 158–59
Miller, Ben, 67, 75–76, 78–79, 90, 91
Miller, Jim, 49, 59, 159, 160, 174, 180, 181
Minerva program, 243, 244
Modern Warfare: A French View of Counterinsurgency (Trinquier), 120
Moore’s Law, 222
Mubarak, Hosni, 223, 233
Mullaney, Craig, 45, 190
Mullen, Michael, 187, 191, 200
Multi-National Security Assistance Command–Iraq (MNSTC-1), 121
multiple-launch rocket system (MLRS), 18, 19
Murphy, Bill, Jr., 88
Muslim Brotherhood, 235
Nadaner, Jeb, 144
Nagl, Emily, 50
Nagl, Jack Frederick, 71, 107, 115, 157, 244, 248–52, 251
birth of, 56
Nagl, John A.:
selected as CNAS president, 180, 192
father of, 50–51, 153, 243, 244, 246
as Haverford School headmaster, 248–53, 251
marriage of, 25–26, 26, 71
mother of, 51, 53, 153, 157, 251
move to Alexandria, 174
move to Philadelphia, 251
retirement from Army, 20, 173–74, 180
talks given by, 115–16, 124, 126, 143, 157–58, 163
as teacher at Naval Academy, 244–45, 247, 251
Nagl, Mark, 251
Napoleon I, Emperor, 81, 136, 167
Nasrawi, Frank, 83–84
National Public Radio (NPR), 157, 163
National Training Center (NTC), 21–25, 28, 41, 46, 65–66, 159
NATO, 205, 218, 228
Naval Academy, 243–44, 247, 251
Navy, 245, 246
New American Foundation, 175
Newbold, Greg, 61, 146, 147
“New Rules for New Enemies” (Nagl and Yingling), 142
Newsweek, 122
New Yorker, 129, 175, 176
New York Times, 75, 88–89, 91–92, 108, 116, 142, 165, 201, 202
North Korea, 105, 224, 233
nuclear weapons, 223, 224–25
Nunn, Sam, 177
Obama, Barack, 144, 160, 177–80, 189–90, 195–97, 204, 205, 209–10, 217–18, 221, 231–35
O’Connor, Sean, 109
Odierno, Ray, 103, 117–18, 143, 167
Odierno, Tony, 103
Office for Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance (ORHA), 63
O’Hanlon, Mike, 192, 193
oil markets, 216, 217, 218, 230
One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer (Fick), 181
O’Neill, Robert, 38–39, 39, 158
On Guerrilla Warfare (Mao), 245
On Strategy (Summers), 136, 219
Operation Desert Shield, 6, 9, 11, 25
Operation Desert Storm, 19, 21, 24, 25, 30, 40, 44, 46, 51–52, 55, 57, 63, 65, 68, 71, 72, 75, 85, 92, 99, 177, 211–12, 224, 225, 230
Operation Enduring Freedom, 224
Operation Iraqi Freedom, 224
Operation Knight Strike, 16
Operation Netscape, 75
organizational learning chart, 38
Oxford University, 5, 26, 28, 29, 38, 40, 41, 49, 50, 53, 69, 79, 81, 158
Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG), 39
Pace, Peter, 118, 162, 187
Packer, George, 129, 183
Pakistan, 3, 138, 185–87, 193, 197, 199, 201, 206–7, 210, 217, 219, 221, 226–29, 235, 238, 239
Pakistani Army, 206
Pakistani Taliban, 206, 228
Palin, Sarah, 180
Panetta, Leon, 221, 234
Paris Peace Talks, 136
Parker, Jay, 41, 43
Parks, Sheldon, 65, 72
Patriquin, Travis, 172
Patton, George, 42
Petraeus, David, 41–43, 53, 60–61, 64, 118, 121–26, 121, 156, 163, 166–70, 172–73, 176, 177, 182, 183, 198, 200–205, 209–10, 214–15, 217, 220, 246, 247
Bremer and, 77
Broadwell and, 161, 208–9
counterinsurgency manual and, 128, 129–32, 137, 156, 157
Keane and, 162
son of, 103
Syria and, 234
Yingling and, 148
Petraeus, Holly, 203
Pfaff, Tony, 47
Philippines, 213, 221
Pinker, Stephen, 224
Places in Between, The (Stewart), 194
population growth, 223, 226, 232
Powell, Colin, 45–46, 59, 62, 109–10
Powell-Weinberger Doctrine, 46, 53
Power, Samantha, 165
Praeger Press, 52, 92, 120, 132
Program for the Pacification and Long-Term Development of South Vietnam (PROVN), 36
Qaddafi, Muammar, 223, 233–34
Raddatz, Martha, 175
Ramadi, 67–68, 72, 76, 168
Rayburn, Joel, 176
Red Aces, 6–7
Reidel, Bruce, 190, 192
Republican Guard, 17
Revolutionary War, 42, 43
revolution in military affairs (RMA), 29–30
Rice, Condoleezza, 109, 143–44
Rickover, Hyman, 50
Ricks, Thomas, 149
Riggs, Scott “Turtle,” 10, 21
Robinson, Linda, 61
Rolling Stone, 202
Romans, 81–82, 237
Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare), 88
Roosevelt, Theodore, 248–49
Rumsfeld, Donald, 61–63, 67, 73, 109–13, 118, 122, 130, 142, 144–46, 148–49, 156, 160–62
firing of, 148–49, 214
Saddam Hussein, 3, 5–6, 11, 13, 14, 16, 19, 59, 61, 62, 64, 111, 122, 139, 145, 211, 212, 214, 216, 230, 231, 238
capture of, 89, 91
Sadr City, 169
Saigon, 208, 229
Sanchez, Ricardo, 112, 113, 117, 139
Santoriello, Neil, 104–5
Saudi Arabia, 13, 14, 228, 233
Scales, Robert, 147
Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr., 2, 220–21
Schoomaker, Peter, 113, 119, 122
Schwarzkopf, H. Norman, 19
SCUD missiles, 11–12
Security Forces (SECFOR), 152
Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 193–94, 216–17
Sepp, Kalev “Gunnar,” 116–17, 120, 124, 127, 140
September 11 attacks, 55–56, 111, 117, 159, 218, 221, 227, 229
Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph (Lawrence), 31, 239
Sewall, Sarah, 123–24, 126, 129, 144, 164, 165
Shakespeare, William, 88
Shapiro, Jacob, 170
Sheehan, Michael, 120
Shias, 73, 77, 96, 139, 149, 162, 168, 176, 217
Shi’ites, 169
Shinseki, Ric, 61–62, 108
Shoemaker, Ted “Shoe,” 8–9, 9, 11, 17–19, 57, 154
Simpson, Erin, 115
Singh, Vikram, 144
Skelton, Ike, 61, 148
Small, Jesse, 240
Small Wars Manual (U.S. Marine Corps), 164, 213
Smith, Brian, 104
Smith, Jim, 49
Snider, Don, 47
Snowden, Edward, 222
social media, 223, 237
Solzenitsyn, Alexander, 223
Somalia, 52, 91, 138, 217, 224
Sons of Iraq, 172, 176
Sorley, Bob, 145
South Korea, 105, 196
Soviet Union, 3, 135, 212, 223–25, 235
Afghanistan and, 185, 200, 208, 216, 225, 228
Cold War, 19, 24, 46, 59, 110, 135–36, 213, 219, 225, 237–38
Srebrenica, 27
Stavridis, Jim, 174
Stewart, Jon, 165–66
Stewart, Rory, 193–94
Strongest Tribe, The (West), 175
Suleiman, Lieutenant Colonel, 96, 98–99, 101, 113
Summers, Harry, 136, 219
Sunflower Press, 164
Sunni Awakening, 167, 173, 214
Sunnis, 64, 65, 66, 73, 96, 139, 149, 162, 168–69, 173, 217
Supreme Headquarters of the Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE), 42, 60
Sustaining U.S. Global Leadership: Priorities for 21st Century Defense, 221
Swat Valley, 228
Swisher, Jeff, 66, 67, 69, 71, 72, 84, 88, 91, 104–5
Syria, 196, 212, 221, 223, 227, 231, 234–36, 239
Taiwan, 196, 225
Taji, 140
Tal Afar, 141, 142, 170
“Tale of Two Battles, A” (Nagl), 24
Taliban, 3, 56, 58, 117, 157, 185–87, 194–95, 197–98, 200, 201, 204–8, 210, 216–17, 219, 227–29
Pakistani, 206, 228
Tanham, George, 120
Taqquadam Airfield (TQ), 73, 105
Teamey, Kyle, 124–25, 127
Tell Me How This Ends: General David Petraeus and the Search for a Way Out of Iraq (Robinson), 61
Templer, Gerald, 34, 117, 145, 196
Terrill, W. Andrew, 59–60
Thomas, Jim, 114
Tiananmen Square, 236
Tibbets, Nate, 180
Time, 61, 146
Toffler, Alvin, 136
Tora Bora Mountains, 186
Traugott, Chris, 107
Treaty of Westphalia, 222
Trinquier, Roger, 120
Truman, Harry, 215, 224
Tryneski, John, 163–64
Tunisia, 232–33
Turner, Brian, xi
Turquoise Mountains, 194
Twain, Mark, 62
Twitter, 223
University of Chicago Press, 163–65
UN Security Council, 233, 236
urbanization, 223, 226, 237
U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual, The (Sewall, Nagl, Petraeus, and Amos), 124–28, 151, 155–57, 161, 163–67, 245
Afghanistan and, 201, 203, 205
campaign design in, 131–32, 131, 138
Chiarelli/Michaelis diagram in, 133–35, 133
civilian casualties and, 201
“clear, hold, and build” technique in, 141, 170
competitions in learning in, 130
Daily Show and, 165–66
on executing counterinsurgency operations, 132–34
influence of, 138
information operations not included in, 135
McChrystal and, 201, 203
on nonmilitary tasks, 134–35
review conference on, 128, 129
on top priority in counterinsurgency, 130
University of Chicago edition of, 163–65
U.S. Information Agency (USIA), 135–36
U.S. military superiority, 223, 225
Valeriano, Napoleon, 120
Vann, John Paul, 201
Varga, Susanne “Susi,” 6, 20–21, 24, 26, 28, 29, 31, 39, 43, 45, 48, 48, 55, 71, 107, 157–58, 173, 244, 248–50, 251
Jack’s birth and, 56
marriage of, 25–26, 26, 71
move to Alexandria, 174
move to Philadelphia, 251
Vietnam War, 3, 13, 15, 16, 19–22, 27, 34–40, 45–47, 52, 55, 61, 69, 85, 86, 92, 101, 103, 113, 120, 136, 143, 145, 162, 177, 201, 211–19, 224, 231–32, 239
British campaign in Malaya compared with, 31, 32, 34, 37
Dien Bien Phu, 34, 224
fall of Saigon, 208, 229
information technology and, 136–37, 223
Tet Offensive, 36
Wadi Al Batin, 9, 11, 14, 16
Waghelstein, John, 116
Wall Street Journal, 92, 129
Walt, Stephen, 230–31
Washington, George, 42, 43, 60
Washington Post, 175, 177
West, Bing, 175, 176
Westmoreland, William, 35, 36, 145, 213
West Point, 29, 39–45, 47–50, 86, 88, 103, 107, 122, 169, 198, 199, 243–47, 251
What It Is Like to Go to War (Marlantes), 16
Wilson, Doug, 181–82
Wolfowitz, Paul, 61–62, 108–11, 111, 114, 119, 121–22, 125–26, 142
“Won’t Get Fooled Again” (Newbold), 61, 146
World Affairs, 47
World War I, 31, 55, 136, 154, 224, 237
World War II, 3, 32, 55, 63, 136, 154, 222, 224, 237, 240
Yemen, 138, 217, 232, 235, 239
Yingling, Paul, 44–45, 44, 51, 94, 142, 146–48, 148, 158, 209
Young, Liz, 45