War
The Chemical Fingerprint of Assads War Crimes
On 21 August 2013, a chemical attack killed hundreds, possibly more than a thousand, in Ghouta, a district of Damascus. ...
Is Iraqi Kurdistan on the Verge of Statehood?
To get into Iraqi Kurdistan from Turkey by car, as I found out a few years back, requires no visa ...
Everyday Ways to Fix Peacekeeping
Peaceland: Conflict Resolution and the Everyday Politics of International Intervention by Séverine Autesserre Cambridge University Press, 360 pages, $26.99 ...
The Hot War in Cold War Southeast Asia
The popular understanding of wars past is an important determining factor how wars in the future will be received or ...
Warrior Culture: Ditch Redskins, but Keep Apache
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office have cancelled the trademark registration of the Washington Redskins football team, convinced the team’s logo and name ...
The Myth of Obamas Realism
Never before in the history of the United States has there been such a yawning gap between the rhetoric of ...
Why Urban Warfare Studies Still Matter
To paraphrase Trotsky, you may not be interested in urban warfare, but urban warfare is interested in you. At the turn ...
Will U.S. Military Advisers Face Mission Creep in Iraq?
President Obama announced as many as 300 U.S. military advisers may be deployed to Iraq to assist the government in ...
Christopher Coker on Prospects for a Great Power War
What do you say to those out there Margaret Mead, John Horgan and others who say that war is just ...
Two Views of Intelligence
The purpose of intelligence is to speak truth to power. Intelligence agencies exist to provide decision-makers with absolute, unbiased facts ...