Counterinsurgency lessons from Malaya and Vietnam : learning to eat soup with a knife / John A. Nagl.

Pt. I. Setting the Stage. 1. How Armies Learn. 2. The Hard Lesson of Insurgency. 3. The British and American Armies: Separated by a Common Language -- Pt. II. Malaya. 4. British Army Counterinsurgency Learning During the Malayan Emergency, 1948-1951. 5. The Empire Strikes Back: British Army Counterinsurgency in Malaya, 1952-1957 -- Pt. III. Vietnam. 6. The U.S. Army in Vietnam: Organizational Culture and Learning During the Advisory Years, 1950-1964. 7. The U.S. Army in Vietnam: Organizational Culture a nd Learning During the Fighting Years, 1965-1972 -- Pt. IV. Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam. 8. Hard Lessons: The British and American Armies Learn Counterinsurgency. 9. Organizational Culture and Learning Institutions: Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife.