“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.)...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
“Why Don’t We Go After Assad in Syria First?” – Thoughts on Countering ISIS Part 4
A nation must think before it acts.
Categories for Geopoliticus
Contested Border: China, India, and the Asian Century
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s three-day visit to India last week was supposed to have breathed new life into ties...
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,...
Turkey’s Shifting Strategic Culture: Part I
(Read Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4.) When Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was recently sworn in as the President of the...
China and the Islamic State
The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria might seem far removed from China. But the spread of its sort...
The Paradox of History
“When one’s conclusions can be no more extensive than one’s premises, one is bound to be at a standstill. ...
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...
Potential Implications of U.S. killing al Shabaab’s Leader In Somalia – Ahmed Godane
Yesterday, after a long pause in overt counterterrorism in Somalia, the U.S. launched a drone strike near Barawe aimed at...
Why would the U.S. want to be ISIS’s ‘Far Enemy’?
For Osama Bin Laden, the calculation to attack the U.S. seemed simple. To topple apostate regimes throughout the Middle...
Ukraine Crisis Timeline: Talk of Peace, Acts of War
The destruction of Malaysian Airways flight MH17 has finally galvanized Western European leaders into taking serious action against Moscow’s...