How Can ISIS Be Degraded or Destroyed?
Guest post by Brian J. Phillips President Obama has repeatedly said the goal of airstrikes against ISIS is…
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Competition Within Terrorist “Industry”: Notes From the Field in Syria and Yemen
By Vera Mironova For the last 20 years Al-Qaeda has enjoyed the status of being one of the…
The US Won’t Declare War on ISIS
By Tanisha M. Fazal Following President Obama’s recent address laying out a strategy deploying airstrikes and advisers to…
Dissecting Obama’s Four-Point Strategy Against ISIL
By Sara Bjerg Moller On Wednesday evening, President Obama took to the airwaves to announce his much-awaited strategy…
What to do about ISIS?: For Starters, Think Political as Well as Military Strategy
Guest post by Deborah Avant In looking at what the US – or anyone else – should do…
Why ISIS Wants Its Brutality to Be Public
By Barbara F. Walter ISIS has captured the world’s attention, in part, because it has been so brutal…
What is ISIS?
Guest post by Jack A. Goldstone The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has emerged as the…
The Pakistan Army’s Facebook War
By Paul Staniland Since June 15, the Pakistan Army has been waging Operation Zarb-e-Azb. This military offensive into…
Israel’s Strategic Goal
Guest post by Jeremy Pressman Part of me is quite sympathetic to Erica Chenoweth’s framing of the current…
Building a Better Cease-Fire
By Page Fortna The collapse of the cease-fire in the Israeli-Gaza conflict, less than 2 hours into what…