Training: Teaching Others to Eat Soup with a Knife

This morning I heard on NPR a report about counter-insurgency training at Ft. Riley, Kansas. I have heard JD talk about and read blog posts about LTC John Nagl and his book on counter-insurgency Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife. In this report, some of the cultural differences between Iraqis and Americans are made apparent. It will take the American public to recognize those cultural differences before there can be any meaningful public support for what we are doing there (see the Army magazine article I referenced a few days ago regarding the same).