A video showing deputy Taliban emir and interior minister Sirajuddin Haqqani and other top terrorist commanders finishing preparations for a large scale suicide assault against U.S. forces based in the...
Data last updated on Oct. 16, 2012 I. Introduction II. Data Summary...
As the sixth anniversary of September 11th, 2001 approaches, we should be grateful: al-Qaeda has not successfully attacked Americans a second time on American soil. We also should be distre...
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.
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...
Enough about you; what did Mullah Omar think of Obama's West Point speech?
On the morning of March 23, 2008, an Easter Sunday, a massive blast rocked the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. Eight kilometers away at Forward Operating Base Marez, the US Military Transit...
US and Afghan forces fought a major battle with the Taliban and "inflicted heavy casualties" on the force just miles from the Pakistani border on June 20, Combined Joint Task Force - 101 re...
Five years ago this month, American troops liberated Iraq from Saddam Hussein. Then came the hard part.
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| General David Petraeus helped write COIN. |
“The only thing this surge will accomplish is a surge of more death and destruction.” That was the prediction of blogger and anti-war activist Arianna Huffington back in December of l...
By: Joseph Morrison Skelly, 2003 FDD Academic Fellow. A few weeks ago the election season opened with a bang in Baquba, a city of 280,000 people located on the eastern edge of t...
We Have Met the Enemy and He Isn't Us