Pakistan's North Waziristan Mirage (Bellum)
June 7, 2010![](https://understandingwar.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumb-wide/public/waziristan_0.jpg?itok=looyUBJH)
ISW Research Analyst Jeffrey Dressler offers thoughts on North Waziristan at Bellum, A Project of the Stanford Review.
ISW Research Analyst Jeffrey Dressler offers thoughts on North Waziristan at Bellum, A Project of the Stanford Review.
by LTG James M. Dubik, U.S. Army, (Ret.) ARMY Magazine, June 2010
This backgrounder outlines the complex relationship between private security companies and ISAF in southern Afghanistan.
Kimberly Kagan and Fredrick Kagan write about turmoil of governemnt formation following the Iraqi elections and what the U.S. should do in response.
Michael Gordon for Military.com's blog The Tank
April 28, 2010
The Tank asks the experts: Has the U.S. military gone overboard with its passion for Power Points, or is it just a case of briefers using the tool as a crutch to flesh out an otherwise poorly delivered brief?
This backgrounder provides the names of potentially disqualified seat winners and the consequences if the move is upheld.
This report documents the dynamics, personalities, and relationships that drive politics in Kandahar.
ISW’s Best Practices in Counterinsurgency series examines pivotal COIN operations executed in Iraq by interviewing the soldiers who designed, participated in and led the successful missions.
Military progress is being made in Afghanistan. There's no reason to alienate moderate Pashtuns.