Learning All the Wrong Lessons: Why an Over-the-Horizon Approach to Counterterrorism Won’t Work
President Joe Biden’s speech in the wake of the US withdrawal from Kabul was intended to put a...
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Communicating to Win: How Terrorists Gain Advantage in the Information Environment
The appeal of terrorist groups remains strong. For at least the past two decades, the United...
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The Wagner Group Has Its Eyes on Mali: A New Front in Russia’s Irregular Strategy
Russian private military companies (PMCs) are on the march. In 2012, Russian PMCs were present in...
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Lessons from the Philippines: Irregular Warfare in Action
After the attacks of September 11, 2001, the world watched as the United States began a punitive...
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How Not to Build a State
In the fall of 2001, just over a month after the first US troops arrived in the country, the...
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How We Fell into the Terrorist Trap and Have Yet to Find Our Way Out
Editor’s Note: This piece draws heavily upon the author’s book, Avoiding the Terrorist Trap: Why...
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Covert Operations Fail More Often than Not, so Why Do Leaders Order Them?
Michael Poznansky, In the Shadow of International Law: Secrecy and Regime Change in the Postwar...
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Rapid and Radical Adaptation in Counterinsurgency: Task Force 714 in Iraq
In May 2003, President George W. Bush declared victory in Iraq after a month of major combat...
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