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Counterinsurgency
Counterinsurgency news and analysis from The Nation
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Even Congress doesn’t know the extent of American military reach.
July 5, 2018
Some historians worry that giving the former general an invitation to keynote means giving him a pulpit.
June 20, 2018
But Gustavo Petro’s presidential candidacy was the most successful leftist campaign in modern Colombian history, after decades of isolation and political assassinations.
March 19, 2018
The Pentagon’s policy, by clear inference if not explicit directive, was to treat civilians living in Communist-controlled areas as enemy combatants.
February 2, 2018
Is the civilian population of a colonial-settler regime ever a legitimate military target?
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January 4, 2018
American counterterrorism forces are in far, far more countries than you realize.
December 6, 2017
Civilians here, who live under an outdated colonial regime, have been terrorized by US drone strikes and extremist Islamists for many years.
October 10, 2017
A top-secret CIA memo shows that US officials considered his execution a crucial victory—but they were mistaken in believing Che’s ideas could be buried along with his body.
June 29, 2017
No matter what, Surge 4.0 won’t change a fundamentally flawed strategic formula.
June 22, 2017
An interview with historian Robert Karl on the country’s violent demobilization.
