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An Interesting PhD thesis for a maverick Lieutenant Colonel
by possibly noteworthy at 7:33 pm EDT, May 29, 2006

From a briefing by John Nagl, author of Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife:

"How many Americans, out of 500,000, were only defending each other, writing memos to each other, and how many were actually making a positive contribution to the future security of Vietnam? It would make an interesting Ph.D. thesis for a maverick Lieutenant Colonel who is not seeking promotion..."
– Sir Robert Thompson, Make for the Hills