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, ...
Asymmetric Warfare Goes Both Ways
During the last decade and a half of militant extremism with global ambitions, asymmetric warfare has been a ...
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), ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Necessary Hypocrisy of Torture
Assume you came to pick up your child from school and found the building locked. A terrorist had ...
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 ...