David Petraeus

June 14, 2011 | National Review Online

Graduate School of Hard Knocks

How to create experts in counterinsurgency.

June 14, 2011 | The Weekly Standard

The Watchmen

In Anbar, the Marines do what they've always done.

June 14, 2011 | The Weekly Standard

Operation Phantom Strike

How the U.S. military is demolishing al Qaeda in Iraq.

June 13, 2011 |

La Larga Guerra

Hace 5 años este mes, las tropas americanas liberaron el Irak de Sadam Hussein. Y luego vino lo difícil. La inteligencia americana se había equivocado respecto al ar...

June 13, 2011 | Clifford D. May Scripps Howard News Service

The Long War

Yes, we've been in Iraq five years and counting; and yes, the outcome counts.

June 13, 2011 | National Review Online

At the Scene of Reconciliation

The Iraqis come to Denmark

June 13, 2011 | The Weekly Standard

While Pakistan Burns

Al Qaeda regroups in the tribal areas, the government falters. What is to be done?

June 13, 2011 | Clifford D. May Scripps Howard News Service

Al Qaeda in Iraq on the Run

Maybe the U.S. Congress will save it?

June 13, 2011 |

El COIN No es Cosa de Broma

Es trabajo del Pentágono prepararse para las guerras del futuro. Pero en alguna parte entre Vietnam e Irak, los planificadores militares confundieron "futuro" con "futurista." Se convencie...

June 13, 2011 | Clifford D. May

COIN is not Small Change

It’s the Pentagon’s job to prepare for wars of the future. But somewhere between Vietnam and Iraq, military planners confused “future” with “futuristic.” They...

June 13, 2011 | Weekly Standard

The Press Botches Basra

Less than 48 hours after Iraqi security forces began their campaign against militant Shia factions in Basra, the media had already declared the operations a failure. The operations, which were in...

June 13, 2011 | Clifford D. May Scripps Howard News Service

Why We Fight

In the Christian Science Monitor this week, Lt. Col. Chris Brady argues that America should “keep fighting for progress” in Iraq where he is currently serving a tour of duty. “A...

June 13, 2011 | Translation of Scripps Howard News Service

Por Qué Luchamos

Esta semana en el Christian Science Monitor, el teniente coronel Chris Brady argumenta que Estados Unidos debería “seguir luchando por el progreso” en Irak donde está ac...

June 13, 2011 | FrontPage

Symposium: Shattered Dreams of Al Qaeda

FP: Bill Roggio, Andy McCarthy and Steve Schippert, welcome to this special edition of Frontpage Symposium. Bill Roggio, give us the background to how these documents we...

June 13, 2011 | Weekly Standard

Assessing the War

Round Two

June 13, 2011 | Clifford D. May Scripps Howard News Service

A Hundred Years of War?

A growing number of Democrats have falsely accused Sen. John McCain of “promising” 100 years of war in Iraq. In fact, McCain’s point was that the presence of American forces pro...

June 13, 2011 | National Review Online |

Talking Cure

Obama's flawed thinking.

June 10, 2011 | Clifford D. May |

A Bug’s Life

Six years after the terrorist atrocities of 9/11/01, 15 years after the first attack on the World Trade Center in New York City, 25 years after the bombing of the U.S. Marines barracks in Beirut,...

May 16, 2011 | Thomas Joscelyn

Reasonable Suspicion

 In reality, however, the answer to Musharraf’s question was not so straightforward. Whether motivated by an American threat or the billions of dollars it received in U.S. aid, Pakista...

May 16, 2011 | Clifford D. May CNN

Time to Rethink Afghanistan Strategy?

In the wake of the daring U.S. special ops strike that killed Osama bin Laden on Sunday, many critics are calling on President Obama to declare victory and pull out of Afghanistan. As they note,...