Unreal. On Thursday night’s Jon Stewart show in the US, one of the guests was Lt. Col. John Nagl – one of the leading US military experts on counter-insurgency and fourth generation warfare (link here). Following his appearance, the Counterinsurgency Field Manual – of which he’s a co-author – leapt into the top 100 books on Amazon. As John Robb on Global Guerrillas put it:
Wow, the Petraeus information operations media machine is amazing (and this is a great example). Nod of respect to the masterful way in which the Petraeus team has been able to influence the public’s perception of this war — the essence of which was a shift towards marketing the Iraq leadership as both competent and brilliant.
C.f. David Kilcullen doing the rounds of the blogosphere engaging the commentariat directly…
