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  • Audiobook

    Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife

    Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam

    by John A. Nagl, John A. Nagl ...
    Narrated by John Pruden ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 46 min

    Invariably, armies are accused of preparing to fight the previous war. In Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife, Lieutenant Colonel John A. Nagl—a veteran of both Operation Desert Storm and the conflict in Iraq—considers the now crucial question of how armies adapt to changing circumstances during the course of conflicts for which they are initially unprepared. Through the use of archival sources and ... Read more

    $27.95 CAD

  • Knife Fights

    A Memoir of Modern War in Theory and Practice

    by John A. Nagl ...
    From one of the most important army officers of his generation, a memoir of the revolution in warfare he helped lead, in combat and in WashingtonWhen John Nagl was an army tank commander in the first Gulf War of 1991, fresh out of West Point and Oxford, he could already see that America’s military superiority meant that the age of conventional combat was nearing an end. Nagl was an early convert ... Read more

    Was $18.99 CAD Now $8.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Counterinsurgency Field Manual

    by The U.S. Army Marine Corps ...
    When the U.S. military invaded Iraq, it lacked a common understanding of the problems inherent in counterinsurgency campaigns. It had neither studied them, nor developed doctrine and tactics to deal with them. It is fair to say that in 2003, most Army officers knew more about the U.S. Civil War than they did about counterinsurgency.The U.S. Army / Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual was ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Knife Fights

    A Memoir of Modern War in Theory and Practice

    by John A. Nagl ...
    Narrated by Brian Hutchison ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 55 min

    From one of the most important army officers of his generation, a memoir of the revolution in warfare he helped lead, in combat and in Washington When John Nagl was an army tank commander in the first Gulf War of 1991, fresh out of West Point and Oxford, he could already see that America's military superiority meant that the age of conventional combat was nearing an end. Nagl was an early convert ... Read more

    $28.84 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Power-Sharing after Civil War

    Thirty Years since Lebanon’s Taif Agreement

    Edited by John Nagle, Mary-Alice Clancy ...
    This book provides a wide-ranging exploration of the legacy of Lebanon’s peace agreement in the 30 years since it was signed.The chapters in this edited volume have been written by leading scholars and provide in-depth analyses of key issues in postwar Lebanon, including the performance of power-sharing, human rights, communal memory and sectarianism, conflict and peace, militias, political ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • Chaos in the Green Zone

    My Time as an Iraq War Strategist

    by Tom Mowle ...
    An American officer offers an explosive memoir from inside coalition headquarters in Baghdad. With raw honesty and exhilarating detail, Tom Mowle shares how policy and strategy were built at a time when it still felt like the US could win the Iraq War.When Tom Mowle volunteered to go to Iraq in 2004 to help shape American strategy, he left behind a comfortable life as a noncombat junior officer ... Read more

    $16.79 CAD

  • Commodity Markets

    Evolution, Challenges, and Policies

    Edited by John Baffes, Peter Nagle ...
    Commodity markets are integral to the global economy. Understanding what drives developments of these markets is critical to the design of policy frameworks that facilitate the economic objectives of sustainable growth, inflation stability, poverty reduction, food security, and the mitigation of climate change. This study is the first comprehensive analysis examining market and policy developments ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • Commodity Markets

    Evolution, Challenges, and Policies

    Edited by John Baffes, Peter Nagle ...
    Commodity markets are integral to the global economy. Understanding what drives developments of these markets is critical to the design of policy frameworks that facilitate the economic objectives of sustainable growth, inflation stability, poverty reduction, food security, and the mitigation of climate change. This study is the first comprehensive analysis examining market and policy developments ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Urban Ecologies of Divided Cities

    Edited by Amira Osman, John Nagle, Sabyasachi Tripathi ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    The book discusses how division affect the fabric of cities, and people’s sense of identity and agency, and are reflected in physical features, architecture, and urban planning. The question of divided cities represents a complex and multistranded urban Ecology—at once both social and spatial; it cannot be limited to a single science or discipline, such as social or spatial fields. This suggests ... Read more

    $267.69 CAD

  • Introducing Sociology

    A Graphic Guide

    by John Nagle ...
    Series series Graphic Guides
    Sociology is interested in the ways people shape the society they live in, and the ways society shapes them. Simply, it is the study of what modern society is and how it functions.In the series' inimitable style, Introducing Sociology traces the origins of sociology from industrialization, revolution and the Enlightenment through to globalization, neoliberalism and the fear of nationalism – ... Read more

    $7.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Galula

    The Life and Writings of the French Officer Who Defined the Art of Counterinsurgency

    by A A. Cohen ...
    This comprehensive analytical biography is the definitive work on the life and writings of history's most significant counterinsurgency doctrinaire, David Galula, elucidating the context for his reflections and examining the present and future applicability of his treatise for scholars and practitioners alike.The product of years of extensive research made possible by exclusive access to Galula's ... Read more

    $84.19 CAD

  • The New Counterinsurgency Era

    Transforming the U.S. Military for Modern Wars

    by David H. Ucko ...
    Confronting insurgent violence in Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. military has recognized the need to “re-learn” counterinsurgency. But how has the Department of Defense with its mixed efforts responded to this new strategic environment? Has it learned anything from past failures?In The New Counterinsurgency Era, David Ucko examines DoD’s institutional obstacles and initially slow response to a ... Read more

    $65.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus