In just two months, NATO leaders will gather for their first formal summit in two years. The agenda will include revising NATO’s Command Structure, ensuring fair burden-sharing, increasing cooperation between…
On April 10th, Five Minutes sat down with Sophie Huvé and Ambassador Melanne Verveer at the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace, and Security to discuss Huvé’s recently published research titled…
In November 2017, Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri stepped down from office while under house arrest in Saudi Arabia. In his resignation speech, which was televised from Riyadh, Hariri stated…
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi declared victory over the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in July 2017. In December 2017, he announced that a joint effort between the Iraqi government…
Introduction The purpose of this article is to examine the origin of the High Value Detainee Interrogation Group (HIG) and to review how it functions in regard to terrorists who…
Iraq is on the brink of civil war. Iraqi Kurdistan’s contentious independence referendum and Baghdad’s heavy-handed response have set the stage for a military clash between the Iraqi military and…
The Horn of Africa has rapidly risen on the global stage as a region affected by terrorism and violent, often religious-based, extremism. This rise is primarily due to al-Shabaab’s military…
The notion that there are four elements of national power—diplomatic, information, military, and economic—is hegemonic in American military thought. The DIME construct is a starting point for everything from…
In May 2013, fighting between the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N) and the Sudanese government intensified in Sudan’s South Kordofan region. Though both the rebels and the Sudanese government have…
The Syrian conflict long ago metastasized from a two-sided battle between the Bashar al-Assad regime and homegrown forces seeking its overthrow to a full-blown sectarian conflict. Now, foreign fighters and…
