This story originally ran at Cicero Magazine: During the last decade and a half of militant extremism with global ambitions, asymmetric warfare has been a much-ballyhooed concept sometimes alleged to give the weaker belligerent an inherent, automatic advantage. But this
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai was sworn in Monday as Afghanistan’s new president, replacing Hamid Karzai in the country’s first transfer of power since the 2001 U.S.-led invasion toppled the Taliban. A senior adviser to President Barack Obama
On September 26, Afghan officials said ISIS-linked militants launched an offensive into Afghanistan’s Ghazni province, killing over 100 persons — 15 of whom were beheaded. The ISIS-linked militants launched the offensive alongside Taliban fighters. NBC News reports that the persons
When it comes to the reliability of our power grid, recent solar storms and criminal attacks on electrical transformers in Arizona and California have raised an important question: is our power grid vulnerable? Imagine the lights go out. The refrigerator
This week our Commander-in-Chief gave the orders to significantly step up our military actions against ISIS. While the President stresses that he is minimizing American loss of life by not putting boots on the ground, anytime the men and women
HOUSTON — The Texas National Guard (TNG) saved the life of a man on the Texas-Mexico border who was accidentally injured while working along the river. The victim had severely cut his arm while working to clear brush along the
The U.S. released 14 Pakistanis from the Bagram military prison in Afghanistan on Saturday and transferred their custody to the government of their home country. An intelligence official within Pakistan’s government, who spoke on condition of anonymity because details
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Outgoing Afghan President Hamid Karzai used his farewell speech on Tuesday to take one last swipe at the United States, capping a long-testy relationship with the accusation that America hasn’t wanted peace in Afghanistan. The only
This is how terrorist attacks on the homeland could be planned or carried out. According to authorities, three Afghan National Army soldiers have been reported missing from the Cape Cod military base where they were residing, and participating in military
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Ending months of vote-related tension, Afghanistan’s election commission named a new president Sunday only hours after the leading candidates signed a power-sharing deal that names one of them as the country’s new chief executive. The commission
Note from Senior Management: Jim Pinkerton outlines the central issues in the 1500-year struggle between competing cultural visions several years ago in this article, which first appeared in The American Conservative. In one of the great epics of Western literature,
The watchdogs of social media criticized Katherine Heigl after she seemingly confused the setting of her new show “State of Affairs” with Afghanistan, rather than Iraq. The actress, who is playing a CIA analyst in the series, posted a photograph
The two candidates vying for the Afghanistan presidency struck a unity government deal today that includes both rivals, the Los Angeles Times reported. An official “close to the talks” who “requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of the talks” was
The U.S. State Department spent $6.5 million in taxpayer funds to build communication towers that could still be standing idle in Afghanistan and may never be used as originally intended, the U.S. government watchdog for reconstruction in the war-torn country
On Tuesday, Sept. 15, Kimberly Guilfoyle of Fox News’ The Five picked the 2014 war documentary The Hornet’s Nest as her “One More Thing” at the end of the show, describing how it told the story of American troops on a dangerous mission in
On Friday September 19th, the Texas State Board of Education (SBOE) will consider a resolution presented by Board member Ken Mercer. The resolution will request that the College Board rewrite its Advanced Placement U.S. History (APUSH) course and exam “in
A September 11th report based on comments by a CIA spokesman indicates that the Islamic State, also known as ISIS, has “two or three times” more fighters than the CIA “previously estimated.” The new estimate is somewhere between “20,000 and
A cell of seasoned al-Qaeda fighters from Afghanistan and Pakistan has joined forces with al-Qaeda’s Yemen affiliate to pilot innovative methods aimed at smuggling explosives onto U.S.-bound airliners, according to U.S. officials. Citing unnamed U.S. officials and classified intelligence
During his now infamous Rose Garden appearance with Bowe Bergdahl’s parents, President Obama said that “America doesn’t leave our people behind,” including “American citizens who are unjustly detained abroad and deserve to be reunited with their families, just like the Bergdahls.” Well,
The Afghan Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) reported that 4,466 self-poisoning and 4,136 self-immolation cases have been registered this year alone across Afghanistan, where suicides exceed deaths by homicide and the war combined annually. According to MoPH, those figures were
The U.S. government, after investing an unprecedented $104 billion of taxpayer funds on nation-building, does not have an anti-corruption strategy in Afghanistan vital to sustaining the gains made in America’s longest war. Furthermore, according to John Sopko, the Special Inspector
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s army said Friday that it has arrested 10 militants suspected of involvement in the 2012 attack on teenage activist Malala Yousafzai, who won world acclaim after she was shot in the head by the Taliban for
President Barack Obama reportedly rejected advice from Gen. Lloyd Austin, commander of U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), to send a limited number of combat troops to the Middle East to assist in the fight against ISIS. According to Dustin Walker of RealClearDefense,
Injured troops from around the world are to do battle in London this week at Prince Harry’s Invictus Games, which get under way Wednesday with a vibrant opening ceremony. The prince, a British army captain who served two tours in
WASHINGTON, D.C.–In a closed-door meeting with House Republicans, former Vice President Dick Cheney said President Obama has “actually done things that have supported the Muslim Brotherhood,” according to Rep. John Fleming (R-LA). Fleming explained how Cheney traced the lineage of
