Tag: Iraq

Does unrealistic war experience lead to Trump's advisor's overconfidence?

Bad as things are right now, experience tells us – or at least our military commanders swear to it – that they’ll get better sooner or later.

The U.S. needs to learn the art of diplomacy instead of spending a lot of time constantly demonizing and threatening other countries.

ISIS is on the decline, but the catastrophic political divisions in Iraq and Syria that gave rise to it are no closer to being mended.

Several NATO countries, including Canada and the United States have special forces soldiers deployed in the region.

From Catalonia to Kurdistan, long simmering regions are clamoring for their own states. But what good is being a state anymore?

Out everywhere and winning nowhere.

“I grew up around the auto industry. Customers would say to my dad, ‘We have this need.’ He would then use his own money to create prototypes to fulfill those needs. He took the ‘If you build it they will come’ approach.” —Erik Prince

“Their poor judgments resulted in the deaths of many innocent people.”

The Trump administration has shifted from extermination to annihilation in its war against the Islamic State.