August 5, 2010

Conservatives: Abandoning Counterinsurgency Is Not Abandoning the Afghan War!

Many in the American conservative community have signed on to support President Obama's Afghan war strategy -- counterinsurgency (COIN) -- out of the mistaken belief that not supporting COIN would mean abandoning the main theater of war against the I...

February 14, 2010

Is It Possible for a Practicing Muslim Soldier to Swear Allegiance to the U.S. Constitution?

The Islamic jihadi murders of their military brothers in arms by U.S. Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan at Fort Hood and U.S. Army Sergeant Hasan Akbar in Kuwait raise an uncomfortable question: Is it possible for a practicing Muslim soldier to swear alle...

October 4, 2009

Is counterinsurgency a viable strategy for America?

Counterinsurgency became the subject of extensive strategic study for Western European militaries following World War II, as the European colonies of Africa and Asia sought to liberate themselves from their colonial shackles. Given the post-war chaos...

July 6, 2007

A winning counterinsurgency strategy?

John B. Dwyer in his June 26, 2007 American Thinker piece "A winning counterinsurgency strategy," is very effusive in his praise for the "new" counterinsurgency strategy being implemented in "the surge" in Iraq. Mr Dwyer...