Throughout its existence beginning in the early 1990s, ASG has waffled back and forth between criminality and terrorism.
Understanding the great paradox of the U.S. military: the better our conventional capabilities, the more likely we are to face increasingly irregular and asymmetric threats.
Policy implications from Stathis Kalyvas’ concepts of attitudinal and behavioural support.
The prevalence of PTSD and mental disorders in weak and failed states is exacerbated by insurgencies, defying efforts break the cycle.
Pershing's leadership attributes and willingness to understand and work through the Moro culture achieved success in a complex operational environment.
Historians often turn wars and battles into linear sequences outlining casual chains for which the mind has a natural bias.
Transition can’t simply be, “We are leaving...good luck.”
There is a danger in the empirical mode of reasoning that it will lead us to think of a thousand locals or twenty counterinsurgents as homogenous units of human being.
An edited volume by Williamson Murray and Peter Mansoor.
Critiquing the Critique of British COIN
