Afghanistan

May 4, 2018|Afghanistan, childhood, manliness, PTSD, Sebastian Junger, Tribe

Men Searching for Their Lost Tribe

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Sebastian Junger's Tribe offers a provocative but flawed argument about manhood today.

March 27, 2018|Afghanistan, grand strategy, Iraq, jus post bellum, Just War, Nadia Schadlow, occupation, US army, World War II

Being Ready to Restore Order Is Crucial to Winning Wars, but the Real Question Is: Should We Fight Them?

by Brian A. Smith|2 Comments

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American politicians and strategists regularly fail to plan for restoring order after the fighting stops - Nadia Schadlow explains why.

January 24, 2018|12 Strong, Afghanistan, Special Forces, Vietnam Syndrome

12 Strong: The American Soldier as Strong, Intelligent and Compassionate

by Mark Judge|2 Comments

12 Strong depicts the American soldier as not only brave but highly intelligent, as well as empathetic and engaged in a just battle.

October 15, 2015|Afghanistan, Drone warfare, Foreign Policy, Iraq, ISIS, President Obama

“Don’t do stupid stuff”: A Conversation with Mark Moyar about President Obama’s Foreign Policy

by Mark Moyar|4 Comments

This next edition of Liberty Law Talk is a discussion with historian Mark Moyar about his new book, Strategic Failure, which critiques the foreign policy pursued by the Obama administration.

March 16, 2015|Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, Carlotta Gall, Iraq, ISIL, Pakistan, Taliban, The Wrong Enemy

The Problem of “Frenemies”

by Karl Walling|1 Comment

Carlotta Gall, a Pulitzer prize-winning journalist for the New York Times with 10 years of experience covering the American war in Afghanistan, argues that the United States has been fighting the wrong enemy in Afghanistan. The enemy is not the Taliban, but rather Pakistan, which manipulates the Taliban and other Islamist groups to wage proxy wars against it neighbors in Afghanistan and India. As a journalist, Gall makes her case through judiciously chosen and narrated vignettes. She is careful not to reveal her sources, but one story after another enables her to build an overwhelming circumstantial case that Pakistan is what…