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 ...

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 ...

As the nation licks its wounds from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, an old and unfortunate confusion continues between military strategy and doctrine, on one hand, and questions of how applications ...

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 ...

Unless the United States alters its diplomatic and military strategies in Africa, it is inevitable that it will repeat past mistakes. Terrorism is once again increasing, with Islamic extremists ...

Why has Nigeria failed to make meaningful progress in its counterinsurgency? Admittedly, it is incredibly difficult to fight terrorists, even under the best of circumstances. Extremist militant groups ...

This is a guest post by Colonel Clint Hinote. He is the 2014-2015 U.S. Air Force Military Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. The opinions expressed here are his own. As the United States ...

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 ...

But counterinsurgency does demand an additional set of priorities. It is, after all, not difficult to intuit that these missions require different equipment and skills than conventional combat. There ...

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.