I just started hanging around here, so apologies if this was already referred to (I haven't seen a reference to it at least).

Enclosed are two links on the role graduate education at civilian universities should (or should not) play in a serving officer's career. The first is a piece by GEN Petraeus, the second by Ralph Peters--the latter includes a thinly veiled and extremely critical reference to LTC Nagl and the current COIN manual:

http://www.the-american-interest.com...?Id=290&MId=14

http://www.the-american-interest.com...?Id=291&MId=14

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