Geopoliticus September 8, 2014 The U.S. Can’t Destroy ISIS, Only ISIS Can Destroy ISIS – The Unfortunate Merits of the “Let Them Rot” Strategy During the early 1990s the Algerian government fought one of the nastiest civil wars in recent history against a... Read more »
Geopoliticus April 2, 2014 Field Notes: Reading Lolita in Kurdistan Two European-looking young men are sitting in the back of the minibus, which I boarded at a sprawling... Read more »
Geopoliticus December 2, 2013 Do al Qaeda Affiliates Actually Have a Plan? The rise of many jihadi affiliates around the Africa and the Middle East has renewed the American media quest... Read more »
Geopoliticus August 5, 2013 Al-Qaeda Plots, NSA Intercepts & the Era Of Terrorism Competition This weekend, the U.S. closed 22 of its embassies throughout the Middle East and North Africa in response to... Read more »
Geopoliticus June 17, 2013 Al Qaeda in Iraq publicly rebuts al Qaeda’s leader Ayman al-Zawahiri Two months ago, the Islamic State of Iraq (ISI – al Qaeda’s Iraqi affiliate) announced its merger with Jabhat... Read more »