Feature articles in this theme:
By Spencer Ackerman
31 Mar 2009 |
World Politics Review
A generation of
theorist-practitioners of counterinsurgency warfare has emerged to
reach a new height of influence in the shaping of American foreign
policy. Now that they are firmly installed in the Obama administration's national security team, will the
counterinsurgents check U.S. military excesses or
exacerbate them?
By Anastasia Moloney
31 Mar 2009 |
World Politics Review
Colombia's southern provinces are the front line in the
U.S.-backed counterinsurgency campaign against the FARC, the site
of daily clashes between government troops and rebel guerrillas. It is here, in the jungle that serves as a strategic corridor, that Colombia's largest guerrilla group clings to its last
stronghold.
By Joshua Foust
31 Mar 2009 |
World Politics Review
Since 2005, Kapisa Province has been the site of several
waves of U.S. counterinsurgency operations. Each has been
lauded as a success, yet the
problems facing Kapisa remain, and in some cases are worse than before
the operations began. Clearly, something needs fixing in the way the U.S.
military measures and maintains its successes.