Over the past several months, I have been trying to lay out a broad and consistent argument about American foreign and defense policy. In the process of doing so, I have found myself allied with a number of very thoughtful people, with whom I have nonetheless quite significant disagreements. Just for the record, [...]

I have a new piece up at Small Wars Journal.
The essay will make four interrelated points. First, the attacks of 9/11 though spectacular in consequence, were simple in execution. Second, the IED networks that have proliferated in Afghanistan and Iraq are orders of magnitude more complex than the portion of al Qaeda that planned and [...]

Crossposted from:
And… We Still Don’t Get It… Or Do We?
The New York Times has been reporting about concerns about developments in Iraq focusing particularly on the current state of the Awakening Councils and Sons of Iraq (many of them former insurgents who switched sides) (Troops Arrest an Awakening Council Leader in Iraq, Setting Off Fighting) [...]