Category: Conflict & Security
169 Articles
- Conflict & Security
Look to Idlib: A Preview of Warfare in the New Decade
Powerful capabilities and disruptive technologies were unleashed to devastating effect on the battlefield—all while combatants captured and uploaded the conflict onto social…
May 8, 2020
- Conflict & Security
Nation Making and Nation Breaking in the Pacific Islands: the Case of Papua New Guinea
These challenges are most evident in Papua New Guinea (PNG), whose population of more than 8 million comprises hundreds of local ethnic groups speaking over 800 different…
May 5, 2020
- Conflict & Security
Libya’s Civil War: US Abdication Providing a Playground for Foreign Intervention
A central tenet of US policy towards Libya after Qaddafi was to prevent outside actors from intervening in the country’s internal affairs. In that spirit, the United States…
April 27, 2020
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Frameworks for Dissent and Principled Resignation in the US Military: A Primer
The Crozier affair should prompt senior military officers to contemplate situations in which ethics may demand a leader to express dissent, to resign, or even to disobey orders.…
April 17, 2020
- Conflict & Security
Russian Weapons in Turkey: A Trojan Horse?
After Russia’s aggression in Ukraine in 2014, the former Warsaw Pact countries commenced plans to completely break off contacts with Russian arms and military equipment…
March 3, 2020
- Conflict & Security
South China Sea Threat Assessment: Is China a Threat or a Paper Tiger?
China’s weak joint command system, which has become an essential instrument in modern warfare, comprises its first major military weakness. If any military operations are to be…
February 20, 2020
- Conflict & Security
Hitting Home: Cyber-Hybrid Warfare in Ukraine and Its Impact on the United States
Hybrid warfare, while not a new concept, fits well with military concepts of maskirovka, or the masking of offensive military activities. What is new is the emergence of new…
February 18, 2020
- Conflict & Security
Civilians Versus Their Governments: China, the United States, and the Changing Nature of Conflict and Security in Africa
The United States should realize that the nature of conflicts and threats in Africa has changed. Governments themselves are increasingly the sources of insecurity and violence…
January 29, 2020
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Nationalist Underpinnings of Turkey’s Damaging “Kurdish” Policy
Nationalist histories are deliberate and ideological narrations of joys, fears, and hopes that a collective shares. They are deliberate because, as Benedict Anderson put it,…
January 27, 2020
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Civil-Military Relations in Pakistan: Positive Evolution or More of the Same?
While the Army has not eschewed intervening in domestic politics in recent years, it has cooperated more with Islamabad’s civilian leadership. Knowledgeable observers believe…
January 24, 2020