Graduate School of Hard Knocks
How to create experts in counterinsurgency.
How to create experts in counterinsurgency.
In Anbar, the Marines do what they've always done.
How the U.S. military is demolishing al Qaeda in Iraq.
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...
Yes, we've been in Iraq five years and counting; and yes, the outcome counts.
The Iraqis come to Denmark
Al Qaeda regroups in the tribal areas, the government falters. What is to be done?
Maybe the U.S. Congress will save it?
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Round Two
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...
Obama's flawed thinking.
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,...
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...
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,...