If the present strategy toward Al-Shabaab is either ineffective or actively making matters worse, then it should be drastically revised.
Continue reading Re-evaluating the Al-Shabaab Strategy: Does President Trump have a Point?
With the 2017 Kenyan presidential elections looming on the near horizon, it is important to understand the factors that led to violence in 2007 in order to prevent a similar chain of events in 2017.
Continue reading Rebuilding Democracy: Kenya from 2007 to 2017
Denying conquest-based and commerce-based income to ISIS can limit the group’s functionality as a governing entity and a fighting force.
Regime survival is what drives North Korea’s seemingly irrational behavior – and the rest of the world would do well to take notice.
Continue reading The Rationality of North Korea and the Stability-Instability Paradox
Shinzo Abe’s insistence on rearmament does more harm than good to Japanese security.
Continue reading The Dangerous Ramifications of Japan’s Revised Security Laws
In Africa’s most unstable region, U.S. military aid has done more harm than good.
Continue reading A Military Policy Failure in the Greater Horn of Africa
diplomacist.com 