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June 22, 2011
Ten Whats With...Col. Gian Gentile
Colonel Gian Gentile. Courtesy of the Council on Foreign Relations. This is the first installment of an occasional series for Politics, Power, and Preventive Action (3PA): “Ten Whats With….” In ea…
September 29, 2023
Mexico
Latin America This Week: September 29, 2023
Mexico will define the success of the U.S. State Department’s new synthetic drug initiative; In the Dominican Republic, politics trumps economics; Brazilian military mostly supported democracy.
September 18, 2023
United States
Happy 76th Birthday to the United States Air Force
The United States Air Force marks seventy-six years of service.
August 17, 2010
Afghanistan
Conflicting Objectives for U.S. in Afghanistan
President Obama’s political objectives for Afghanistan are limited and feasible, says military historian Gian Gentile, but the military’s counterinsurgency strategy and "maximalist approach of nation…
December 13, 2010
Wars and Conflict
The ’Conditions-Based’ Afghan Loophole
U.S. strategy in Afghanistan should be in line with the Obama administration’s political goals of defeating al-Qaeda rather than devoting resources to long-term nation building, says CFR’s Gian Genti…
March 2, 2011
United States
Secretary Gates’s Strategic Thinking
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates’s recent West Point speech promoted the need for better strategic thinking by the U.S. military to supplant a current emphasis on counterinsurgency tactics and natio…