interviews
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 ...
Joshua Rovner on Iraq and the Politics of Intelligence
In Fixing the Facts, Joshua Rovner explores the complex interaction between intelligence and policy and shines a spotlight on the problem ...
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 ...
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 ...
Barry Blechman on Using Force Without War
If there is one book worth reading (or rereading) this summer given the current state of the world, it’s Force Without ...
Morten Ender on Millennials and the Military
The Millennial Generation and National Defense: Attitudes of Future Military and Civilian Leaders By Morten G. Ender, et al. Palgrave Macmillan, ...