Street gangs had become so intimidating in Springfield that citizens stopped calling the police on them. And no wonder: gangs were so strong that motorcycle-riding members once cruised a neighborhood ...

In the midst of the fallout from the Afghanistan civilian killings, guest host Jacki Lyden speaks with Sarah Sewall and John Nagl, about repercussions for the U.S. counterinsurgency effort in ...

It has been a challenging year for the Department of Defense. For more than a decade, Operation Iraqi Freedom and the ongoing conflict in Afghanistan highlighted the need for a modern military to be ...

Editor’s note: This is the depressing conclusion of a chapter on the Romans from a new book, The Many Faces of War. What is the relevance of the Imperial Roman Way of War and Counterinsurgency for ...

President Joe Biden’s recent announcement that all U.S. military forces would leave Afghanistan this year drew immediate criticism from a wide range of national security experts and elected officials.

An internal Pentagon report is raising concerns about whether the Army's focus on counterinsurgency has weakened its ability to fight conventional battles. The report's authors — all colonels with ...

Counterinsurgency (COIN) doctrine in general and the military’s FM 3-24 in particular have been the subject of extensive and often vitriolic debate in recent years. Now the debate is finally subsiding ...

Okay, let’s put an end to this silliness before it gets out of hand: We do not need a counterinsurgency strategy to defeat right-wing extremism in the United States of America. Say it with me once ...

The following is a script from "Counterinsurgency Cops" which aired on May 5, 2013, and was rebroadcast on August 4, 2013. Lesley Stahl is the correspondent. Andrew Metz, producer. In the wars in Iraq ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. This is a guest post by Colonel Clint Hinote. He is the 2014-2015 U.S. Air Force ...

After a lapse of thirty years, counterinsurgency is back as a topic of military study. I recently attended a three-day "strategy implementation seminar" on counterinsurgency at the U.S. Army War ...