Posted in Books, Counterinsurgency, Iraq on Dec 1st, 2009 Comments Off on ‘A Question of Command’
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. Mark Moyar is professor of national security affairs at the Marine Corps University, where he holds the Kim T. Adamson Chair of Insurgency and Terrorism. His new book […]
Posted in Books, Counterinsurgency, Iraq on Aug 12th, 2009 Comments Off on ‘Iraq in Transition’
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. Peter J. Munson is a Marine officer with more than eleven years of service, has seen several operational and combat tours in the Middle East since 2001, and […]
Posted in Books, Counterinsurgency, Iraq, Israel, Terrorism, Walter Laqueur on Mar 24th, 2009 1 Comment »
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. Ami Pedahzur is associate professor of government at the University of Texas, Austin. His new book is The Israeli Secret Services and the Struggle against Terrorism. From Ami […]
Posted in Counterinsurgency, Culture, Philip Carl Salzman on Sep 26th, 2008 Comments Off on Anthropology and strategic studies
From Philip Carl Salzman There is one central lesson that cultural anthropology has to offer. It is the lesson of Franz Boas, who founded American anthropology, of his students Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict, and of their intellectual descendants, such as Clifford Geertz, arguably the most influential American cultural anthropologist of the second half of […]
Posted in Counterinsurgency, Iraq, Qaeda on Aug 1st, 2008 Comments Off on Foreign fighters in Iraq
From Assaf Moghadam The Combating Terrorism Center at West Point just released a study on the foreign fighters streaming into Iraq. The new study, Bombers, Bank Accounts, and Bleedout: al-Qa’ida’s Road in and Out of Iraq, edited by my colleague Brian Fishman, expands on an analysis of Al Qaeda in Iraq’s personnel records conducted by […]
Posted in Counterinsurgency, Maps, Yemen on Jul 8th, 2008 Comments Off on Yemen’s hidden war
From MESH Admin Fighting between government forces and Shiite rebels in the mountainous governate of Sa’ada in the far north of Yemen has displaced approximately 130,000 people since 2004. The Washington Post ran an article a month ago, explaing the context of the fighting. This new situation map, prepared by the UN Office for the […]
Posted in Books, Counterinsurgency, Iraq, United Kingdom on May 8th, 2008 Comments Off on ‘Spies in Arabia’
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 […]
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