Posted in David Schenker, Andrew Exum, Lebanon, Hezbollah, Military on Jul 14th, 2008 4 Comments »
From David Schenker
A lot of people have asked me lately about U.S. funding of the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF). The current interest in U.S. assistance to the LAF comes as little surprise: Congress is currently reviewing the FY09 budget, which is said to include a significant aid package for the LAF.
From 2005 to 2008, the […]
Posted in Islamism, Mark T. Clark, Michael Horowitz, Bernard Haykel, Terminology, Raymond Ibrahim, Qaeda, Military on May 29th, 2008 8 Comments »
From Raymond Ibrahim
At the recent inaugural conference for the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA), presenter LTC Joseph Myers made an interesting point that deserves further elaboration: that, though military studies have traditionally valued and absorbed the texts of classical war doctrine—such as Clausewitz’s On War, Sun Tzu’s The Art […]
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 Steven A. Cook, Malik Mufti, Michael Reynolds, Turkey, Military on Mar 14th, 2008 2 Comments »
From Malik Mufti
Turkey’s democracy has long rested on a delicate equilibrium between the guardians of the unitary secular-nationalist paradigm who dominate the civilian and military state bureaucracies on the one hand, and the populist politicians who appeal to the particularistic sub-identities of Turkey’s diverse civil society on the other. The proper functioning of this dynamic […]
Posted in Andrew Exum, Chuck Freilich, Lebanon, Hezbollah, Israel, Military on Jan 30th, 2008 1 Comment »
From Andrew Exum
Today, as Eliyahu Winograd presented his final report in Jerusalem on Israel’s performance during the 2006 war with Hezbollah, I sat in London, having coffee with one of the U.S. Army’s smartest counterinsurgency experts. The two of us were discussing what lessons we, as American military professionals and analysts, should draw from those […]
Posted in Arab Gulf, Geopolitics, Military on Jan 16th, 2008 No Comments »
From MESH Admin
When President Bush set out for the Arab countries of the Persian Gulf, he might have been briefed on the U.S. military footprint in the region. A useful inventory is provided in a November paper by James A. Russell, a Gulf analyst and senior lecturer in the Department of National Security Affairs, Naval […]
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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