It has been a challenging year for the Department of Defense. For more than a decade, Operation Iraqi Freedom and the ongoing conflict in Afghanistan highlighted the need for a modern military to be ...

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Counterinsurgency (COIN) doctrine in general and the military’s FM 3-24 in particular have been the subject of extensive and often vitriolic debate in recent years. Now the debate is finally subsiding ...

In early December 2001, just nine weeks after invading Afghanistan, the US military overthrew the Taliban government, accomplishing what it is most apt at doing: winning conventional military battles.

An internal Pentagon report is raising concerns about whether the Army's focus on counterinsurgency has weakened its ability to fight conventional battles. The report's authors — all colonels with ...

We’ve all heard them before: “business as war” metaphors. While I won’t list any—no doubt you can list a bunch of your own—it is difficult to dispute the (at least) structural similarities between the ...

Why has Nigeria failed to make meaningful progress in its counterinsurgency? Admittedly, it is incredibly difficult to fight terrorists, even under the best of circumstances. Extremist militant groups ...

Writing in the Washington Times, columnist Don Feder called the recent disturbances in sanctuary cities the first steps of a left-wing attempted American revolution. He likens them to the early stages ...

Street gangs had become so intimidating in Springfield that citizens stopped calling the police on them. And no wonder: gangs were so strong that motorcycle-riding members once cruised a neighborhood ...

This is a guest post by Colonel Clint Hinote. He is the 2014-2015 U.S. Air Force Military Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. The opinions expressed here are his own. As the United States ...

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.