Kings of War

Last week I attended an event at the New America Foundation where Ryan Evans, Peter Neumann and Ambassador Omar Samad presented the new…

US drone strikes are the new Guantanamo — a focal point for all those railing against America and the excesses of its War on Terror efforts…

Many of our UK-based readers will be familiar with the so-called Muslim Patrol videos posted online earlier this month. The videos feature…

There is not much to be said about the ‘Innocence of Muslims’ trailer — and the reaction to it in several Muslim-majority countries — that…

I recently had reason to dust off my copy of Stanislav Andreski’s 1972 book, Social Sciences As Sorcery (Penguin, 1974), which I last read…

A running theme among actors and institutions involved in ‘managing’ war-to-peace transitions is that they typically struggle to meet the…

It may be a little odd to post something so extensive on a presentation that I did not even attend, but since the US Army War College has…

Col Gian Gentile‘s piece on ‘The Death of the Armour Corps‘ for the Small Wars Journal has reignited the discussion of how the US…

Two recent articles, one by Bernard Finel and one by Austin Long, argue for a more ‘enemy-centred’ approach to the campaign in Afghanistan…