It has been a busy few days in the New York office of Osprey. On Friday April 11th we learned that the Wall Street Journal had run a review of one of our April new releases the prior day. The book is entitled, Counterinsurgency in Modern Warfare. It is a collection of essays commissioned by Daniel Marston and Carter Malkasian, both graduates of Oxford and old friends of Osprey. The list of contributors is extremely impressive, including Col. Richard Iron (UK) and Lt. Col. John Nagl (US).
The publication of the review has forced me to get up to speed quickly on the current happenings in Iraq and Afghanistan. It has been fascinating to learn that Nagl is one of the architechts of current US and UK strategy in Iraq, including what has been called, "the surge."
The experience has also helped me track down a book that I had heard about last year in an NPR piece. The reporter mentioned that the book analyzed strategic failures in Algeria and is on the night stand of President Bush, then Pentagon chief Rumsfeld, and several members of Congress. The title, I've learned, is similar to our book: Counterinsurgency Warfare by David Galula. It was first published in 1964, but was recently reissued by Praeger.