Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife

Illustrations
Foreword by General Peter J. Schoomaker
Preface to the Paperback Edition
Acknowledgments
Introduction
List of Abbreviations
Part I. Setting the Stage
1. How Armies Learn
2. The Hard Lesson of Insurgency
3. The British and American Armies: Separated by a Common Language
Part II. Malaya
4. British Army Counterinsurgency Learning During the Malayan Emergency, 1948-1951
5. The Empire Strikes Back: British Army Counterinsurgency in Malaya, 1952-1957
Part III. Vietnam
6. The U.S. Army in Vietnam: Organizational Culture and Learning During the Advisory Years, 1950-1964
7. The U.S. Army in Vietnam: Organizational Culture and Learning During the Fighting Years, 1965-1972
Part IV. Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam
8. Hard Lessons: The British and American Armies Learn Counterinsurgency
9. Organizational Culture and Learning Institutions: Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife
Selected Bibliography
Index