Reddit reviews Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam
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I'm gunna buy it. I need other book suggestions to make it $25 for free shipping.
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>http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0226567702
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http://www.amazon.com/Learning-Eat-Soup-Knife-Counterinsurgency/dp/0226567702
Great book about how the British were able to counter the Malayan insurgency while also highlighting how the US was unable to learn any of the tactics that were so successful for the Brits. TL;DR: It's hard as fuck to beat guerrilla tactics militarily.
John Nagl's Learning To Eat Soup With A Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam is a great read. Nagl contrasts the successful British counterinsurgency in Malaya with the unsuccessful US counterinsurgency in Vietnam and tries to analyze what lessons the US military can take to be more successful at counterinsurgency in the future.