This Week in War
All things war for the first week of February, 2015. North America Ashton (“Ash”) Carter admitted in his confirmation hearings ...
Jeff Bridoux on Democracy Promotion in the Post-9/11 Era
In Democracy Promotion, you and Milja Kurki, your co-author, seek to provide an understanding of some of the key dynamics and ...
Free Speech, Self-Censorship, and the Cartoon that Shook the World
When Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published cartoons of the prophet Mohammed in 2005, its editor, Flemming Rose, and his country, Denmark, found themselves ...
American Witnesses of the Nazi Rise to Power
Your book Hitlerland chronicles the lives of Americans who witnessed first-hand the Nazis rise to power. What drew the Americans you write ...
Revisiting the First 102 Days of the War on Terror
The phrase Tora Bora became a tagline for anti-Bush stump speeches by John Kerry during his 2004 presidential run. Over ...
Ron Capps on PTSD and Recovery from Serving in Five ...
A veteran of five wars, Ron Capps, who served both as a senior military intelligence officer and a U.S. State Department ...
Bing West on Fighting the Forgotten War in Afghanistan
In his latest book, One Million Steps, Bing West describes the daily battles of a platoon of U.S. Marines he embedded with ...
Paul Staniland on How to Fix Counterinsurgency
In his new book, Networks of Rebellion: Explaining Insurgent Cohesion and Collapse, Paul Staniland discusses the importance of material resources in explaining ...
Anjan Sundaram on Life as a Stringer in the Congo
In 2005, Anjan Sundaram was a recent graduate in mathematics with an Ivy League education and cushy investment bank offer ...
Spymaster Jack Devine on Building a Better CIA
Jack Devine, longtime veteran of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and at one point its top spymaster, was there for ...