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Dont Hold Colombia Up as a COIN Model to Emulate
IN a recent article in Foreign Policy, Admiral James Stavridis argues that the model of counterinsurgency implemented in Colombia over the past decade could ...
Military Force Structure Math the American Way
As the United States defense budget has been cut over the last several years, the Congress has been very disappointed ...
Why ISIS is More Dangerous than Al-Qaeda
On a hot summer’s afternoon last week, I visited the 9/11 Memorial at the Pentagon. After a day of news ...
The Good, Bad, and Ugly about Intervening against ISIS
U.S. policy in Iraq is truly perplexing. Like many things President Obama does abroad, he appears to be trying to ...
How Do We Protect the Kurds? Like We Did in ...
President Obama made clear this weekend that he foresees what could be months of strikes against ISIS militants who have taken over ...
The Future of Americas All-Volunteer Force
For the sake of our military and the Republic it defends, we must cultivate a societal and organizational shift that ...
It is Time to Retire Weapons of Mass Destruction
The West has been using the terms WMD and “weapons of mass destruction” to describe an expanding list of ...
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 ...
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 ...