This spring marks five years since the troop surge in Afghanistan began. President Obama authorized a plan to send 30,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan in December 2009 and in early March 2010 ...

Petraeus: Inspired to move U.S. troops into cities. TO understand the new American military strategy in Iraq and Afghanistan you could download a copy of the Army’s counterinsurgency field manual, FM ...

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Galula’s other book, Pacification in Algeria 1956-1958, arrived nearly stillborn, classified as “confidential” when it was written as a 1962 report for RAND. At the time, Algeria was in turmoil and ...

In the aftermath of the Paris attacks, French President François Hollande’s declaration of war against the self-proclaimed Islamic State and U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter’s deployment of a new ...

Muito tem se falado nos últimos tempos de uma mudança da atitude americana em relação ao Iraque e, subsequentemente, ao Afeganistão, como se a vitória de Barack Obama significasse uma ruptura, em ...

While we struggle to understand the U.S. failure in Afghanistan, an important element that must be included in the discussion is a fundamental flaw at the heart of U.S. counterinsurgency (COIN) ...

What Is China Really Doing in Greenland? Fact-Checking Trump’s Arctic Claims And now for something completely different: the latest stop in our progress through military history (from the Strategy & ...