ZETEO

A former Pentagon official on how America is wholly unprepared for this new and dangerous conflict.

ZETEO

Trump using the military to solve every problem is a backward step.

RESPONSIBLE STATECRAFT

Are US special forces going to be used for drug interdiction in Mexico, or even on American streets, next?

WES J. BRYANT

Americans need to face reality. The U.S. military is in the hands of a volatile, aspiring dictator, whose only decision calculus in employing its incredible might is how powerful it will make him look in a given moment and how feared and respected he will become…

BOSTON GLOBE

Diversity. Care for civilians. Loyalty to the Constitution. All the things Trump and Hegseth are undermining…

IRREGULAR WARFARE INITIATIVE

Explosive reports from major news outlets in September declared that, last year, tech guru and billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk had shut down the Starlink service for the Ukrainian military in Crimea, thwarting Ukraine’s ability to conduct a major counteroffensive against the Russian navy…

LIEBER INSTITUTE FOR LAW AND LAND WARFARE

Last December, weeks before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the New York Times ran an article that describes a highly secretive strike cell operating during the U.S. campaign in Syria and run by a small task force of U.S. special operators...

MODERN WAR INSTITUTE

In the United States, we often analyze distant armed conflicts and counterterrorism efforts as if watching from a remote observation tower…

REAL CLEAR DEFENSE

June 2014 – Baghdad. We were treading a thin line, and we all knew it. I was the senior enlisted joint terminal attack controller for the 300-member special operations task force sent to Iraq to quell the rising threat of ISIS…

TASK & PURPOSE

They started the US war against ISIS. Now they have an important message for Trump on abandoning the Kurds…

AIR FORCE TIMES

It was late August 2014. I was one of the handful of American military forces in Baghdad, Iraq’s capital. Only a few months before, ISIS laid siege…