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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
At this point in the war on terror, even people who think David Galula is a trendy new chef are quick to point to the need for cultural understanding in successful counterinsurgency. Often, they are ...
Join Dr Élie Tenenbaum, Beatrice, and Paul as they explore the insights of two French strategists on political and psychological warfare in COIN operations. Read the transcript Roger Trinquier ...
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 & ...