
OpEds
U.S. Strike Cells: Dispelling the Myths
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...
On the Ground with No Support
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…
Abandoning the Syrian Kurds
TASK & PURPOSE
They started the US war against ISIS. Now they have an important message for Trump on abandoning the Kurds…
A Drone is Not Worth Another War
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…