By Hadiza Santali Saeed.
Winning, or at least not losing ‘hearts and minds’ is an essential difficulty in counterinsurgency warfare. If destructive force used against insurgents results in civilian casualties … Read the rest
Tag: strategy
As drug traffickers have exploited recent technological and socio-economic developments to become the world’s most elusive illicit traders, governments committed to countering their activities have resorted to measures that … Read the rest
Over the course of the 1970s and ‘80s, the threat posed by state-sponsored international terrorism to the United States grew exponentially. The Gaddafi regime, which seized power in Libya … Read the rest
2014 will see the end of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) mission in Afghanistan after 13 years of intervention. Following early successes by US troops in removing the … Read the rest
By Frank Douglas Aigner
In the annals of airpower, the Soviet air campaign in Afghanistan is curiously little-studied. Given its length, 1979-1989, its place as part of a major conflict … Read the rest
By Alexander Crothers
On the 19th October 2010, the recently installed coalition government published the results of its Strategic Defence & Security Review (SDSR); setting in motion a process that … Read the rest
By Bettina Renz.
Over the course of only a century airpower has developed into an indispensable instrument of warfare. It has caught the imagination of writers since the early days … Read the rest
The comments by Robert Gates about the damage to the ‘Special Relationship’ due to the cuts in UK defence spending struck a nerve amongst security elites on this side of … Read the rest
*This is the last of a three-part blog series by Dr Tom Waldman exploring Clausewitz’s famous trinity*
Almost all discussion on the nature of war and strategy commences, wittingly and … Read the rest
*This is the first of a three-part blog series by Dr Tom Waldman exploring Clausewitz’s famous trinity*
In the form of his ‘remarkable trinity’, Carl von Clausewitz (1780-1831) laid the … Read the rest