Why military interventions are hard to evaluate, especially ones in really broken lands like Afghanistan.
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On this day in 2016, both the Taliban and ISIS claimed a suicide bomber who killed 16 locally-engaged security guards at the Canadian embassy in Kabul.
On this day on 2004, Talibans were believed to be behind a terrorist attack on sleeping Chinese construction workers in Kundiz province, killing 11.
There has not been an appreciable increase in terrorism activity in most nations across the world (there are exceptions). Here is what we know so far.
We should have learned by now that military occupation to deal with terrorism is seldom a good idea: the problem is there are few alternatives. This contribution appeared in Homeland Security Today on February 17, 2020 HOMELAND SECURITY TODAY — It is looking more and more like the U.S. will ink a deal with the […]
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Can we talk with terrorists?
Sometimes we have to do things we really would rather not: negotiating with terrorists may be one of them.
Terrorist groups like the Taliban hate just about everything, especially those who have hopes for the future.
Declaring ‘victory’ over a terrorist group/terrorism may be a nice sound bite, but it is rarely accurate.