The United States plans to spend about ₦587 billion ($413.046m) on counter-insurgency and security operations in Nigeria and ...

Unless the United States alters its diplomatic and military strategies in Africa, it is inevitable that it will repeat past mistakes. Terrorism is once again increasing, with Islamic extremists ...

Insurgency and counterinsurgency are radically different sides of the same coin - a truly asymmetric conflict. The intelligence demands for both sides are equally dissimilar. Effective intelligence ...

President Joe Biden’s recent announcement that all U.S. military forces would leave Afghanistan this year drew immediate criticism from a wide range of national security experts and elected officials.

As the national security establishment emerges from more than a decade of counterinsurgency warfare in Iraq and Afghanistan and refocuses on other global priorities, the means by which intelligence, ...

In “Bullets Not Ballots,” Jacqueline L. Hazelton challenges the claim that winning “hearts and minds” is critical to successful counterinsurgency campaigns. Good governance, this conventional wisdom ...

The United States military forces that invaded Iraq were well organized, well equipped, and well trained, but they were surprisingly unprepared for an unconventional enemy, one that chooses to wage ...

Mark Twain was never shy about sharing his opinions, and now that his 5,000-page memoir is finally being released a full hundred years after his death, the world is getting access to even more ...

The Dand-district center is a novelty in the badlands of Kandahar province. As the seat of both the top government official and the U.S. forces based in the area, it’s a seductive target for Taliban ...

Reducing counterinsurgency (COIN) operations significantly weakens the ability to establish an “American influence in unstable, strategic regions,” Alexandre Caillot writes. U.S. Army Capt. Justin ...