John Albert Nagl was born on February 28,1966 and is a retired Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Army.
20 Facts About John Nagl
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John Nagl is a former president of the Center for a New American Security and former headmaster of The Haverford School.
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John Nagl was raised in Omaha, Nebraska, where he graduated from Creighton Preparatory School in 1984.
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John Nagl then attended the United States Military Academy at West Point, where he studied international relations and graduated near the top of his class in 1988.
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John Nagl later returned to Oxford to earn his DPhil at St Antony's College in 1997.
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John Nagl's doctoral dissertation was a comparative study of the British and American militaries as they dealt with insurgencies in Malaya and Vietnam, respectively.
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In 1997, John Nagl was appointed as a social sciences professor at West Point.
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John Nagl later received the George C Marshall Award for being the top graduate of the US Army Command and General Staff College in 2001.
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John Nagl served as Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and Plans for the 24th Infantry Division at Fort Riley, Kansas.
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John Nagl deployed to Iraq in 2003 as the operations officer of the 1st Battalion, 34th Armor Regiment, 1st Infantry Division stationed near Khaldiya.
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In 2006, John Nagl was given command of the 1st Battalion, 34th Armor Regiment to help train Embedded Training Teams, small groups of American soldiers tasked to develop the Afghan National Army and Iraqi security forces.
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However, Exum confirmed on his Abu Muqawama blog that John Nagl was not eligible for promotion to Colonel in 2008 and argued that John Nagl could have a greater influence on defense policy outside the military, particularly if he were allowed to serve in the Department of Defense by a future administration.
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John Nagl served on the Defense Policy Board, which advises the Secretary of Defense, Deputy Secretary of Defense and Under Secretary of Defense for Policy.
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John Nagl is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
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John Nagl taught in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University in 2009 and is a visiting professor in the war studies department at King's College London.
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John Nagl taught a course on the history of counterinsurgency to midshipmen at the Naval Academy.
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Dr John Nagl is an Advisory Board Member of Spirit of America, a 501 organization that supports the safety and success of Americans serving abroad and the local people and partners they seek to help.
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John Nagl was interviewed with fellow counterinsurgency experts Lewis Sorley and Conrad Crane on the Charlie Rose show about the similarities between counterinsurgency during the Iraq and Vietnam Wars in March 2006.
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John Nagl was appointed as headmaster of The Haverford School in August 2012.
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In 2020, John Nagl published an op-ed encouraging military action if President Donald Trump refused leaving office at the end of his constitutional term.