http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/167695 Professor Brian Glyn Williams, author of Counter Jihad. The American Military Experience in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria (December 2016), has produced a thoroughly researched summery of the fall of ISIS in Iraq and Syria. Williams summarizes the role of American Special Forces in training, advising, and most importantly targeting insurgents for US air and […]
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Major Danny Sjursen, History Instructor at West Point, Reflects on the Proposed Surge in Afghanistan.
Another Surge in Afghanistan Would Be Folly. I Should Know—I Was Part of the Last One. A boots-on-the-ground analysis. Another Surge in Afghanistan Would Be Folly. I Should Know—I Was Part of the Last One.
The Future of Counter-Insurgency Warfare in the Trump Administration
In this hard-hitting and blunt essay, Professor of History Emeritus Michael H. Hunt, from the University of North Carolina, evaluates the career of his former history Ph.D. student (and now head of the National Security Council) Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster. McMaster’s 1997 book, Dereliction of Duty, took aim at the LBJ administration and the Joint […]
The State of Military History
Nick Sarantakes, a military historian at the U.S. Naval War College, has recently published an insightful four part blog article on the state of Military History in universities and in the government. The article highlights the historiography of the topic, quoting many leading historians in the field and the debates over the state and future […]
Times Standard on American Guerrillas
The Times-Standard has an article on the publication of American Guerrillas in the March 24th issue. Read it here.