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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Irregular Warfare Initiative
The Overlooked Irregular Warfare Expert the Pentagon Should Study Today
In his 1961 book about warfare in Southeast Asia, Street Without Joy, Bernard Fall, the Howard...
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An Eye for an Eye: The Dynamics of Blood Revenge in Civil War
Over the past fifty years, about two-thirds of all civil wars have occurred in countries where...
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“By, With, and Through” Will Not Save US Forces from Direct Combat: American Ground Force Contributions to the Campaign against ISIS
In 2016, as it was pushing ISIS from its Euphrates valley strongholds in Iraq, the Global...
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Competition Campaigning: What It Looks Like and Implications for US Special Operations Command
In March 2022, the Pentagon released a new National Defense Strategy (NDS) that identified China...
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Al-Shabaab and the Grim Realities of Somalia’s Forever War
Mary Harper, Everything You Have Told Me is True: The Many Faces of Al Shabaab (Hurst, 2019)...
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Resist to Deter: Why Taiwan Needs to Focus on Irregular Warfare
Taiwan and the United States appear to have reached the decade of maximum danger with the Chinese...
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In the Gray Zone, This Much is Black and White: SOF Must Develop Partner and Ally Nation Capabilities
Irregular warfare is fundamental to strategic competition with China and Russia. In his recent...
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