COL Gian Gentile

COL Gian Gentile is an associate professor of history and director of the military history program at the United States Military Academy at West Point. An award-winning historian, he is the author of How Effective is Strategic Bombing? Lessons Learned from World War II to Kosovo.  Gentile formerly commanded a combat battalion in West Baghdad in 2006.   His new book on counter-insurgency is due out in April 2013.