This is a guest post by Jacqueline L. Hazelton. Dr. Hazelton is an assistant professor in the Department of Strategy and Policy at the Naval War College. I asked her to write a brief piece about her new Foreign Affairs essay for the Duck of...
counter-insurgency
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In addition to buying weapons (in defiance of UN sanction) from North Korea, Ethiopia has also decided that starving rebel regions is appropriate behavior:The Ethiopian government is blockading emergency food.
A bunch of people ask some really interesting questions in these two threads, questions that I think are deserving on their own post.lemuel pitkin writes:I think if you reframe the question away from preparing for the wars we are likely to fight to wars we...
I'm pretty much in agreement with Matt on the Air Force in Iraq and Afghanistan:As William S. Lind observed on June 11, the rise in strikes is indicative of the.
Via Noah at Danger Room comes this: "The poobahs are worried that 'the new emphasis on... counterinsurgency may be undermining conventional [big war] capabilities.'""The major concern is, while we're doing.
Huh. I guess, maybe, insurgents run away from superior firepower:The operational commander of troops battling to drive fighters with Al Qaeda from Baquba said Friday that 80 percent of the top Qaeda leaders in the city fled before the American-led offensive began earlier this week....
I'm as skeptical of the latest offensive effort as of just about all the other offensives that US forces have launched in Iraq, and I'm wondering whether the planning and.
There's a front page article in today's USA Today about the Pentagon's decision to convert to the MRAP, or Mine Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicle, as a replacement for the Humvee..
A couple of minor caveats regarding Yglesias' discussion of the use of artillery in Iraq:1. There's a risk to taking the "American Way of War" a bit too seriously; the character and nature of the United States Army prior to 1900 is radically different than...
From Armed Forces Journal, Lt. Colonel Paul Yingling. Apparently, this has been making the rounds inside the USMC. It's surprising and impressive to see an LTC aim the guns at.
Max Boot blunders into an interesting point. In denouncing our allies for being insufficiently militaristic, he manages to ask an interesting question. Here's the dreck:Britain is hardly alone in its.