Geopoliticus May 10, 2018 Winds of War? Tensions between Israel and Iran are at a Boiling Point Yesterday’s exchange of missile and air attacks between Iranian forces stationed in Syria and Israel was the most violent... 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 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 November 18, 2015 Why Assad Must Go The recent attacks in Paris have underscored the need to defeat the Islamic State and reignited debates over how... Read more »
Geopoliticus October 15, 2015 Is Turkey’s Military Reentering Politics? Hulusi Akar, the recently selected chief of Turkey’s military, confronts a very tense, if not perilous environment. His August appointment... 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 May 16, 2015 Why the U.S. Raid On Abu Sayyaf and ISIS in Eastern Syria May Be A Game Changer This morning, reports confirmed that U.S. Special Operations Forces conducted a daring raid deep into Eastern Syria killing a... 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 October 29, 2014 Turkey’s Competing Strategic Cultures: Part 4 – Now and Into the Future (Read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.) Scholars of strategic culture have noted that multiple strategic cultures can exist... Read more »
Geopoliticus September 29, 2014 “Why Don’t We Go After Assad in Syria First?” – Thoughts on Countering ISIS Part 4 (Editor’s Note: This blog post is derived from Clint Watts’ Ginsburg Lecture delivered at the National Liberty Museum on September 16, 2014.)... Read more »