U.S. Counterinsurgency Expert Tests Ideas in Iraq NPR's Liane Hansen talks with Peter Maass, a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine, about his article "Professor Nagl's War." Maass profiles a U.S. Army major whose academic study of insurgency and counterinsurgency informs his on-the-ground command in Iraq.

U.S. Counterinsurgency Expert Tests Ideas in Iraq

U.S. Counterinsurgency Expert Tests Ideas in Iraq

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NPR's Liane Hansen talks with Peter Maass, a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine, about his article "Professor Nagl's War." Maass profiles a U.S. Army major whose academic study of insurgency and counterinsurgency informs his on-the-ground command in Iraq.