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Three Years and You're Out

Steven Metz | Jan 02, 2008
If you can't beat 'em, keep trying to beat 'em? The United States needs a new counterinsurgency strategy—and soon.

Commentary

The Defense Exports

Nikolas K. Gvosdev | Oct 10, 2010
A new approach bridges the debate over whether America should prepare for counterinsurgencies versus large-scale armed conflicts.

Yemen: Ten Years After the USS Cole Bombing

Christopher Boucek | Oct 10, 2010
Al-Qaeda's offshoot in Yemen is now more dangerous than the original.

For-Profit Terrorism

Justine A. Rosenthal | Jun 13, 2007
The illicit economy is on the rise. Counterfeits, drugs, people and information all flow throughout our porous, evermore borderless world.
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Books & Reviews

Attraction and Chastisement

Max Boot | Jun 01, 2000
The counterinsurgency that worked--a century ago.

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