In the Eye of the Beholder: Legitimacy, Drones, and US Counterterrorism Policy
Legitimacy—the public’s beliefs in the appropriateness of some behavior—is central to the...
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Paul Lushenko | 02.03.23
Legitimacy—the public’s beliefs in the appropriateness of some behavior—is central to the...
Read MoreNathaniel L. Moir | 01.31.23
In his 1961 book about warfare in Southeast Asia, Street Without Joy, Bernard Fall, the Howard...
Read MoreEmil Aslan, David S. Siroky and Roberto Colombo | 01.26.23
Over the past fifty years, about two-thirds of all civil wars have occurred in countries where...
Read MoreJeff Martini, Sean Zeigler and Gian Gentile | 01.24.23
In 2016, as it was pushing ISIS from its Euphrates valley strongholds in Iraq, the Global...
Read MoreJonathan Schroden | 01.20.23
In March 2022, the Pentagon released a new National Defense Strategy (NDS) that identified China...
Read MoreSam Wilkins | 01.02.23
Mary Harper, Everything You Have Told Me is True: The Many Faces of Al Shabaab (Hurst, 2019)...
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Taiwan and the United States appear to have reached the decade of maximum danger with the Chinese...
Read MoreClifford Lucas | 12.13.22
Irregular warfare is fundamental to strategic competition with China and Russia. In his recent...
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