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To Kill or Not to Kill.
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U.S. ARMY LIEUTENANT COLONEL John Nagl was an unlikely guest on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. One of the authors of the 2006 Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual , Nagl said: "If I could sum up the book in just a few words, it would be: Be polite, be professional, be prepared to kill." In that single sentence, he put his finger on a crucial discrepancy. In Iraq, I witnessed this discrepancy. I felt it. I knew from the moment I picked up the Counterinsurgency Field Manual what was missing.On April 11, 2004, I did something that I'd never before done. I shot a ma...See the full content of this document
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