On 29 September, the ADF announced that eight Iraqi civilians, including two children, were believed to have been killed or seriously injured during its operations against the Islamic State terror group in the Iraqi city …
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In 2003, Coalition forces decisively destroyed the Iraqi Army and toppled Saddam Hussein. The military mission had been accomplished, but what was left? While the decisive phase of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) was relatively well …
The political and military environment in Afghanistan remains extremely challenging. While recent international attention has been drawn to the rise of the ‘Islamic State’ group in Iraq and Syria and by the Greek financial crisis, …
In the Islamic State (ISIS), we face a determined enemy melding terrorism and guerrilla warfare with an expansionist, state-building agenda and a mastery of online propaganda. And no country has yet mustered the political will …
The unfolding humanitarian and political disaster in Iraq and Syria is ultimately a consequence of confusion, impetuosity, a preoccupation with tactical issues at the expense of strategic ones, and an ignorance of the political, communal, …