Posted in Counterinsurgency, Iraq, Books on May 8th, 2008 No Comments »
MESH invites selected authors to offer original first-person statements on their new books—why and how they wrote them, and what impact they hope and expect to achieve. Priya Satia is assistant professor of modern British history at Stanford University. Her new book is Spies in Arabia: The Great War and the Cultural Foundations of Britain’s […]
Posted in Andrew Exum, Counterinsurgency, Military, Intelligence, Culture on Apr 17th, 2008 No Comments »
From Andrew Exum
Be sure to read the speech given on Monday by Secretary of Defense Robert Gates to the Association of American Universities in Washington.
Since 9/11, the U.S. and its allies have been involved in two prolonged counter-insurgency campaigns in both Iraq and Afghanistan. These wars are low-tech conflicts in which anthropological skills and language […]
Posted in Daniel Byman, Counterinsurgency, Terrorism, Qaeda, Iraq on Mar 6th, 2008 No Comments »
From Daniel Byman
While it is far too early to say that the United States and its allies have permanently “crippled” Al Qaeda in Iraq (as claimed by some U.S. officials), clearly the terrorist organization has suffered grievous blows in the last year. Indeed, U.S. officials are so pleased they hope to use the “Anbar model” […]
Posted in Counterinsurgency, Terrorism, Turkey, Maps, Iraq on Feb 24th, 2008 No Comments »
From MESH Admin
On Thursday evening, Turkish forces entered northern Iraq to do battle with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK. Iraqi foreign minister Hoshyar Zebari has called the move “a limited military incursion into a remote, isolated and uninhabited region.” According to various sources, there have been clashes in the Qandil mountains along the Iraqi-Iranian […]
Posted in Counterinsurgency, Maps, Iraq on Feb 18th, 2008 No Comments »
From MESH Admin
Here is the latest (January 17) map of trends in ethno-sectarian violence in Baghdad, from the Multinational Force Iraq (MNF-I). The green areas are predominantly Shiite, the blue are mostly or predominantly Sunni, and the brown areas are closely mixed. The yellow-orange-red inflammation indicates “incidents where deaths occurred from any means that were […]
Posted in Counterinsurgency, Harvey Sicherman, Lebanon, Hezbollah, Palestinians, Israel on Feb 5th, 2008 No Comments »
From Harvey Sicherman
The Winograd Report has confirmed what I heard on a trip to Israel in August 2006, namely, that an inexperienced Israeli cabinet sought the rewards of a combined arms (air-ground) operation at the risk of an air raid. When this proved inadequate to the rhetoric of victory, the same group bungled the […]
Posted in Andrew Exum, Counterinsurgency, Lebanon, Hezbollah, Military on Jan 8th, 2008 No Comments »
From Andrew Exum
If there is but one article readers of this blog should take the time to read in the next few days, it is most certainly Matt Matthews’s interview with Israeli general Shimon Naveh on the 2006 war between Hezbollah and Israel. Since I wrote my study of Hezbollah’s performance during the 2006 war, […]
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