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...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
You Don’t Win Hearts and Minds, You Rent Them – Reigniting Sunni Tribes Against ISIS
A nation must think before it acts.
Categories for Geopoliticus
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...
Propaganda Wars: Militant Islam versus the Islamic State in Syria
In the past two and a half years, the uneven progress of armed rebellion against the Syrian regime has...
Turkey’s Shifting Strategic Culture: Part 3 – From Republican to Neo-Ottoman
(Read Part 1, Part 2, and Part 4.) Coups are a constant reference point in Turkish politics. This is not surprising...
Turkey’s Shifting Strategic Culture: Part 2 – The Rise of Republican Strategic Culture
(Read Part 1, Part 3, and Part 4.) Turkey is in the headlines for its reticence to intervene more aggressively in...
Kissinger’s World Order
PDF Version (Editor’s Note: The following remarks were delivered by Walter McDougall at an FPRI Board of Trustees...
Al Qaeda versus ISIS: In the campaign for jihad’s top slot, Yemen is a swing state.
The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria’s (ISIS) rise began in the summer of 2013 but became fully evident...
Belarus Proposes Donbas “Peacekeeping Force”
Live in peace—prepare for war. -Russian proverb. Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko on Friday proposed sending troops to serve as...
Russia Warns Ukraine: Transdniestria Border Developments “Extremely Disturbing”
It is worth taking note of an article in today’s ITAR-TASS in which Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin warned...
Hungary’s “New Truth”
In the September 2014 E-Note “Hungary: Going in the Wrong Direction?” I referenced Jobbik’s sponsorship of an October 2014...