Although they are some of the world’s foremost terrorist groups, not much is widely known about Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), one of the largest terrorist organizations in South Asia that operates out of Pakistan and was responsible for the three day…

More than a decade after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, most studies of the conflict focus on the twin questions of whether the United States should have entered the country in 2003 and whether it should have exited in 2011, but few have examined…

A live discussion with counter terrorism experts Douglas Ollivant and Brian Fishman. After weeks of bombing ISIS targets in Syria and Iraq, the United States is fully engaged in another military campaign in the Middle East. But many have…

Knife Fights: A Memoir of Modern War in Theory and Practice by Dr. John Nagl, a retired Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army and a former president of the Center for a New American Security, is a profound education in 21st Century warfare – its…

Featuring a number of contributors to this book including Konstantin Kakaes, 2013 Future Tense Fellow; Christopher Swift, Adjunct Professor of National Security Studies at Georgetown University, Attorney with Foley & Lardner, LLP; Rosa Brooks…