John Nagl/Definition

President of the Center for a New American Security; member of the Defense Policy Board, a Visiting Professor in the War Studies Department at Kings College of London, member Council on Foreign Relations, Veterans of Foreign Wars, International Institute of Strategic Studies; Joint Forces Quarterly Advisory Committee and Advisory Board of the Journal of the Royal United Services Institute; retired lieutenant colonel, United States Army; combat experience in Gulf War and Iraq War; Doctorate from Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar; Military Assistant to two Deputy Secretaries of Defense; top graduate of the Command and General Staff College, where he received the George C. Marshall Award as the top graduate; Marine Combat Action Badge for action in Anbar Province; author of Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife:  Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam and was on the writing team that produced the U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual