Obama’s Visit to Asia and U.S. Alliances
As foreign trips go, President Barack Obama’s visit to Asia in April 2014 was more important than most. It...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
Obama’s Visit to Asia and U.S. Alliances
A nation must think before it acts.
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Would jihad’s new generation kill off al-Qaeda’s global leader Ayman al-Zawahiri?
In November of 1989, a car passed through a street in Peshawar, Pakistan only to be demolished by a...
Game On: Southeast Asian Cooperation in the South China Sea?
It is easy for a serviceman stationed on one of the tiny islands that comprise the Spratly group in...
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...
ISIS’s Rise After al Qaeda’s House of Cards – Part 4 of “Smarter Counterterrorism”
(This is Part 4 of Smarter Counterterrorism, see Part 1 here, Part 2 here, and Part 3 here) Ayman al-Zawahiri must...
Field Notes: A Protest in Odessa
Two hundred people are waiting. They huddle in quiet clusters, holding small paper cups of coffee purchased from portable...
Jihadi Competition After al Qaeda Hegemony – The ‘Old Guard’, Team ISIS & The Battle For Jihadi Hearts & Minds
(Part 3 of Smarter Counterterrorism, see Part 1 here & Part 2 here) Before deciding where to focus and...
Treating America’s al Qaeda Addiction – Part 2 of “Smarter Counterterrorism”
(This is the second post in this series, see the initial post at “Smarter Counterterrorism in an Era of Competing...
Now Is the Time: Setting U.S. Policy on Taiwan
On February 11, Taiwan marked a milestone in its relations with China. The head of Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Council...
Smarter Counterterrorism in The Age of Competing Al Qaeda’s
Last week Ayman al- Zawahiri, al Qaeda’s global leader publicly dissolved the relationship between al Qaeda Central and the...