America's internecine counter-insurgency debate is now making some progress, though not on a single predefined path.
Without strategy, the science of war overtakes the art of war.
America's strategic ambiguity in Afghanistan and elsewhere has made understanding its operational doctrine all the more crucial.
Global cities linking global economic circuits are also home to transnational criminals and global gangs. This essay examines the policy implications of gangs in the global city.
Border zones are potential incubators of conflict. Criminal gangs exploit weak state presence to forge a parallel state and prosecute their criminal enterprises sustained by fear, violence and brutality.
A new wave of urban assaults poses a severe challenge in the cities of south Asia and beyond.
Questions of state change and sovereignty are becoming intimately linked with issues of global security, with talk of "failing states," "lawless zones," and "ungoverned spaces&