counterinsurgency

David Kilcullen, the Australian anthropologist who partnered with U.S. General David Petraeus to implement the American...

-- "Taliban Losses No Sure Gains for Pakistanis," New York Times

U.S. Tightens Airstrike Policy in Afghanistan Pakistan Resumes Airstrikes in South Waziristan Note that, for strategic...

U.S. military has massively expanded use of remote-piloted drone attacks within Pakistan since last autumn, and especially since...

Understanding the cost and reasons for it helps, writes Paul Wells, but by itself it doesn’t fix anything

Progress in Afghanistan shouldn’t be measured by the number of dead Taliban

Must-reads: Henry Aubin on the Order of Canada; Graham Thomson in Kandahar; Vaughn Palmer on BC’s emissions targets. The...