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This report is the second installment of a four-part series on the revolution in Libya. Part Two: Escalation and Intervention details the international reaction to the war and the process that led to the U.S. and allied military intervention in March 2011.
This four-part series provides a detailed narrative of the war in Libya and seeks to explain the underlying dynamics behind the conflict.
This paper details the expansion of the Haqqani Network in Pakistan’s Kurram Agency.
The unexpected rise of violence in northern Afghanistan that began in 2008 revealed that the insurgency had expanded its presence into a previously uncontested region.
The United States’ position in Iraq recalls Henry Stimson’s warning: “The construction of a stable peace is a longer, more complex, and greater task than the relatively simple work of war-making.”
The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) has been active in the Pakistani tribal region since late 2001, where it reconstituted after fighting alongside the Taliban.
Success in Afghanistan is the establishment of a political order, security situation, and indigenous security force that is able to prevent Afghanistan from being a safe haven for terrorists.
Coalition and Afghan forces have made remarkable progress clearing and holding critical districts in central and southern Helmand province.
Report #7 details the ISAF & Afghan counteroffensive in Kandahar province during summer & fall 2010; part of Hamkari, the term given to the combined civil-military campaign to weaken the insurgency.
This paper treats one discreet, but not inconsequential, aspect of building partner capacity—that is, creating police and law enforcement systems.