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,...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
Seven Flaws In the U.S. Strategy to Counter ISIS
A nation must think before it acts.
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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 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...
Japan’s Constitutional Reinterpretation and Its Pursuit of New Security Relationships
On July 1, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe announced that his cabinet approved a resolution to reinterpret Article Nine...
Afghanistan On The Brink – The Last Chance For A “Correction”
By Andrew Garfield In April 2014, shortly after the first round of the Afghan Presidential election, I wrote an...
China’s (Is)land Reclamation in the South China Sea
For the last few years, China and the Philippines have repeatedly accused each other of destabilizing the uneasy balance...
Friends in Many Places: Vietnam’s Diplomacy
Last Wednesday, Vietnam feted the 60th anniversary of its victory over French forces at Dien Bien Phu. But earlier...
How does the U.S. counter al Qaeda while al Qaeda fights itself?
(This is the fifth and final installment of the “Smarter Counterterrorism” series. See Part 1 here, Part 2 here,...