Who knew it would turn out to be quite so simple to round up much of the senior leadership of the Afghan Taliban?
Well, the reality is that most of us suspected it would be easy.  They’ve been operating more or less openly in Quetta since 2002, and have been active in Karachi for at least [...]

I’ve been very skeptical of escalation in Afghanistan. Part of my skepticism was based on the belief that our actions would have little impact on Pakistan’s willingness to take action against the Afghan Taliban.  But recent arrests certainly cast doubt on that assessment:
Half of Afghanistan Taliban leadership arrested in Pakistan / The Christian Science Monitor [...]

In his column featured in this month’s Armed Forces Journal, American Security Project (ASP) Senior Fellow Bernard Finel makes a convincing argument for the use of conventional military operations over counterinsurgency (COIN) operations to defeat threats. For a military designed to enact quick, decisive military operations, Finel explains that counterinsurgency operations do not reflect the [...]

Today’s National Journal’s Energy and Environment blog posed the question, “Should Climate Change Be A ‘Risk’? American Security Project (ASP) board member and Marine Corps Brig. Gen. Stephen Cheney (Ret.) offered the following response:

As Reuters reported late last month, it was about two years ago that a Department of Homeland Security official first brought “’the most significant development in the criminal exploitation of aircraft since 9/11’” to the attention of his supervisors.  Yet since this time, the U.S. government has taken little to no action to abate the [...]

Absent from President Obama’s State of the Union address on the 27th of January was any mention of his previous commitment to ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT). The CTBT is a multilateral agreement between 44 nuclear-capable states that would prohibit all nuclear testing once all 44 sign and ratify it. The United [...]