The U.S. and other countries helped train elite anti-terror units in countries facing serious crime The trained personnel can end up joining criminal networks and ...

Editor’s note: This is the depressing conclusion of a chapter on the Romans from a new book, The Many Faces of War. What is the relevance of the Imperial Roman Way of War and Counterinsurgency for ...

President Joe Biden’s recent announcement that all U.S. military forces would leave Afghanistan this year drew immediate criticism from a wide range of national security experts and elected officials.

Okay, let’s put an end to this silliness before it gets out of hand: We do not need a counterinsurgency strategy to defeat right-wing extremism in the United States of America. Say it with me once ...

An Afghan Air Force MD-530 flies above Camp Shorabak, Afghanistan as Afghan tactical air controllers conduct simulated airstrike training Dec. 18, 2017. Several ATACs worked with coalition advisors to ...

The counterinsurgency officer who rallied his patrol after an ambush and set the template for small-team leadership.

In “Bullets Not Ballots,” Jacqueline L. Hazelton challenges the claim that winning “hearts and minds” is critical to successful counterinsurgency campaigns. Good governance, this conventional wisdom ...

Unless the United States alters its diplomatic and military strategies in Africa, it is inevitable that it will repeat past mistakes. Terrorism is once again increasing, with Islamic extremists ...

Last night, Donald Trump became the third consecutive U.S. president to commit to a counterinsurgency strategy in Afghanistan. He did not do so willingly; indeed, like President George W. Bush, Donald ...

In a ceremony yesterday in Washington, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of State Robert Gates, and USAID Administrator Henrietta Fore signed off on the U. S. government's new Interagency ...

But counterinsurgency does demand an additional set of priorities. It is, after all, not difficult to intuit that these missions require different equipment and skills than conventional combat. There ...