Tag: Terrorism & Insurgency

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France, Mali, and the Limits of Intervention

In essence, this would entail the French launching a counterinsurgency operation for an indeterminate period of time. This logic ignores one simple fact: the French cannot win a…

February 18, 2013

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Whither the War on Terror?

America’s emerging security paradigm will not focus on terrorism and the Middle East nearly as much as it used to.  As someone who spends considerable time thinking about…

January 29, 2013

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On the Killing of Anwar al-Aulaki: Five Minutes with Dr Elizabeth Grimm

GJIA: Did al-Aulaki’s American citizenship, along with his native English, make him particularly effective as a jihadist evangelist and recruiter? Eg: Al-Aulaki’s greatest…

October 24, 2011