Gen. Petraeus Makes McChrystal Look Like a Pacifist
Counterinsurgency can mean whatever you want it to mean.
Will Rockets or Schools Tell the Tale of Afghanistan?
No amount of expensive innovation in arms can provide for a sustainable counterinsurgency operation.
Attempts by Petraeus to Turn Soldiers Into Boy Scouts Disingenuous at Best
No individual code of conduct will bring about the huge changes in Afghanistan that are necessary for counterinsurgency to be effective.
It’s Not an “Anthropology of Afghanistan” We Need, But of Us
Afghanistan holds a mirror up to the United States of our misconceptions.
Afghanistan by the Book — THE Book, That Is
Why not hold Gen. Petraeus’s performance in Afghanistan to the standards of his seminal work on counterinsurgency, Field Manual 3-24?
Report: Pakistan’s Ideological Blowback
In its fight against the Taliban, the Pakistani government is battling a creature of its own making.
Iraq and the Problem of Terrorism
As long as the social and economic conditions remain along with 138,000 U.S. troops, there will be a movement in Iraq and throughout the Arab world that will oppose the U.S., and the spectrum of that opposition will be one that includes those who commit acts of terrorism.