In the midst of the fallout from the Afghanistan civilian killings, guest host Jacki Lyden speaks with Sarah Sewall and John Nagl, about repercussions for the U.S. counterinsurgency effort in ...

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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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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The following is a script from "Counterinsurgency Cops" which aired on May 5, 2013, and was rebroadcast on August 4, 2013. Lesley Stahl is the correspondent. Andrew Metz, producer. In the wars in Iraq ...

For a succinct explanation, see Paul B. Rich, “A Historical Overview of US Counter- Insurgency Policy,” Small Wars and Insurgencies 25, no. 1 (2014): 5–40. See Douglas S. Blaufarb, The ...

Fort Leavenworth, Kan. (Army News Service, Dec. 15, 2006) - The Army and Marine Corps released a new field manual today to provide guidance to ground forces in order to achieve success in current and ...

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.