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Main Line
March 1, 2018
The primary threat to the lives of our children is the ready availability of assault rifles and high-capacity ammunition magazines, a specific kind of weaponry designed to kill people in war. I know, because I've used them for that purpose. Assault rifles are really, really good at what they're designed to do,Ãâà...
The Delaware County Daily Times
February 24, 2018
The primary threat to the lives of our children is the ready availability of assault rifles and high-capacity ammunition magazines, a specific kind of weaponry designed to kill people in war. I know, because I've used them for that purpose. Assault rifles are really, really good at what they're designed to do,Ãâà...
The Atlantic
January 9, 2018
“I find it absolutely inexplicable—not in keeping with the man I know, with his writing, with his thinking, with the sense of responsibility he feels for preserving peace and security and innocent life,” said John Nagl, a retired lieutenant colonel who worked with McMaster on the U.S. Army's CounterinsurgencyÃâà...
The National Interest Online
August 22, 2017
John A. Nagl is the ninth headmaster of the Haverford School outside Philadelphia. A retired Army officer who fought in both wars in Iraq, he helped write The U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual and is the author of Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons fromÃâà...
Business Insider
May 17, 2017
"[McMaster] is a man of extraordinary integrity and honor and he's got a president who has clearly done damage to the United States and to our relationships with our allies around the globe by revealing this information," said retired Army Lt. Colonel John Nagl, who worked alongside McMaster in Iraq.
NPR
May 17, 2017
National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster has had to walk a fine line in explaining what President Trump said to Russian diplomats. Retired Lt. Col. John Nagl discusses with Rachel Martin. RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Present Trump's administration's national security adviser has had to walk a very fine lineÃâà...
Philly.com
October 20, 2016
In a one-paragraph statement, District Attorney John J. Whelan said that while police had probable cause to arrest Haverford School headmaster John Nagl, they had "insufficient evidence" to pursue prosecution. Whelan's announcement did not immediately assure the reinstatement of Nagl as headmaster,Ãâà...
New York Times
November 14, 2014
John A. Nagl was one of the few American officers who saw the future. As a leader of a tank platoon in the 1991 war, he predicted that future enemies were not very likely to oppose the United States with big uniformed armies, since they would almost certainly be wiped out. Instead, Nagl concluded, theÃâà...
Foreign Policy
October 16, 2014
It is this last phrase though, describing a set of steps military units must undertake to defeat an insurgency, which proved the most difficult for our civilian and military leaders to grasp — that they learned it at all is due in no small measure to former Army officer John Nagl's strenuous advocacy on its behalf,Ãâà...
