Geopoliticus June 2, 2017 Comments on Iraq: Where Do We Go From Here? On May 18, 2017, FPRI hosted a Main Line Briefing on Iraq: Where Do We Go From Here. The... Read more »
Geopoliticus March 10, 2017 An Update from Iraq I have spent the past week traveling around the Kurdish Region of Iraq conducting research on the behalf of... Read more »
Geopoliticus October 20, 2016 Putting the Battle for Mosul in Context It has been over two years since the Islamic State sacked the Iraqi city of Mosul and captured much... Read more »
Geopoliticus August 24, 2016 Are You Staying, Or Just Passing Through? The Geopolitics Of Asylum European politics have been roiled over the past few years by the question of how the EU as a... Read more »
Geopoliticus July 5, 2016 What Should We Make Of The Islamic State’s Ramadan Wave Of Violence? The Islamic State has taken the final week of Ramadan to make a big statement: “We will not go... Read more »
Geopoliticus November 22, 2015 The Local Proxy Problem On Thursday, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton outlined a bold plan to expand the war against ISIS during... Read more »
Geopoliticus July 13, 2015 The Seven Deadly Sins of the Human Terrain System: An Insider’s Perspective The Human Terrain System (HTS) – a U.S. Army program aimed at helping U.S. and allied military forces understand... Read more »
Geopoliticus June 15, 2015 Four Key Drivers For Eroding ISIS June 15, 2015 Scary ISIS headlines have saturated media outlets in recent months. They usually come in three varieties:... Read more »
Geopoliticus November 17, 2014 You Don’t Win Hearts and Minds, You Rent Them – Reigniting Sunni Tribes Against ISIS In 2008, Americans lauded the great success of ‘The Surge’ – implementation of broad new counterinsurgency doctrine that “Won... Read more »
Geopoliticus September 18, 2014 Seven Flaws In the U.S. Strategy to Counter ISIS (Editor’s Note: This blog post is derived from Clint Watts’ Ginsburg Lecture delivered at the National Liberty Museum on September 16,... Read more »