Monthly Archives: September 2014

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Limp into Iraq, Limp Out: Time to Revive the ‘Powell ...

Recently White House and Pentagon officials have hinted that the U.S.-led bombing campaign against ISIS may last many months, ...
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Asymmetric Warfare Goes Both Ways

During the last decade and a half of militant extremism with global ambitions, asymmetric warfare has been a ...
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Time to Take Chemical Weapons More Seriously

Since the birth of the Chemical Corps back in World War I (then called the Chemical Warfare Service), ...
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How to Assess Risk in a World of Threats like ...

As U.S. efforts to build an international coalition to confront ISIS continue, so does the national debate regarding ...
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Is COIN No Longer Relevant?

In another harbinger of the U.S. military’s waning emphasis on counterinsurgency (COIN) doctrine, on October 1, the Army Irregular Warfare ...
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We Still Need to Defeat Assad, Not Just ISIS

An argument making the rounds is that the al-Assad regime would make the most effective ally for the ...
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The Necessary Hypocrisy of Torture

Assume you came to pick up your child from school and found the building locked. A terrorist had ...
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What the War with ISIS Teaches Us About Strategy

Few words are as ubiquitous and amorphous as the word “strategy.? This has certainly been true regarding the ...