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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Editors’ Note: In the coming weeks, CJR’s Paul McLeary will be filing periodic reports from Iraq. This is his second trip ...

Great commanders often come in pairs: Eisenhower and Patton, Grant and Sherman, Napoleon and Davout, Marlborough and Eugene, Caesar and Labienus. Generals David Petraeus and Raymond Odierno can now be ...