War
Let Iran and ISIS Fight It Out
The binary end-state for Iraq seems to be whether the bulk of the country will be controlled by Sunni Islamic ...
Can Haider al-Abadi Unite a Divided Iraq?
Democracy is still a new process for Iraqis after decades of autocratic rule and life under military occupation. Embracing it ...
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 ...