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John Nagl

Season 12 • 08/23/2007

Lieutenant Colonel John Nagl discusses the dilemmas that face counterinsurgent forces in Iraq.

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Senator Barack Obama reacts to ridiculous headlines and makes the case for challenging conventional wisdom.
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Operation Thundering Cameltoe

Rob Riggle supervises the worst mail call ever in his final report from Iraq.
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John Nagl

Lieutenant Colonel John Nagl, the author of the Army's Counterinsurgency Field Manual, talks about "the graduate school of war."
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Bush visits Anbar Province to see it with his own eyes and sees the future of Iraq.
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Jon lets Senator Larry Craig tell the stall story in his own words accompanied by an R&B crooner.
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