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?
As a critical area of competition for U.S. interests, Africa cannot be ignored by the candidates for President of the United States any longer.
America now wages a perpetual war against its own self-interest.
Continue reading Pork in the Defense Budget: The F-35 Has Slipped Under the Radar
The unilateral withdrawal of American military support called for by proponents of restraint would be disastrous for U.S. foreign policy.
Continue reading Against Restraint: The Value of U.S. Leadership
Failure to pursue political goals in the Middle East with the same gusto as military objectives could render today’s battlefield successes against ISIS meaningless.
Millennials may be a greater danger to American foreign policy than any number of “little green men.”
Continue reading Millennials at the Gate: The Wary Inheritors of American Foreign Policy
With much of the world seemingly arrayed against the Islamic State, how is the group still so powerful?
Continue reading The Not-So United Front Against the Islamic State
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
After unsuccessful nation-building enterprises in Iraq and Afghanistan, a change in military strategy may well be in order.
Continue reading America’s Dangerous Infatuation with Counterinsurgency
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