Dr. Graham Allison is the author of Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap? and is the Douglas Dillon Professor of Government at the Harvard Kennedy School. In […]

Why do some people go abroad to engage in other people’s wars? Some studies attempt to discern why individuals choose to fight in distant lands or seek to count how […]

Around 400 US special operations forces are training Somali troops in their fight against the militant group al-Shabaab. About 800 other US servicemembers are based in Niger, where four Green […]

Lt. Gen. Scott Miller is currently the commander of the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC). He has commanded at every rank from captain to lieutenant general, to include combat tours […]

The Battle of Kamdesh was one of the bloodiest days of the Afghanistan War. Fifty-four soldiers from B/3-61 CAV defended Combat Outpost Keating against 300 enemy and were nearly overrun. The attack on October 3, 2009 left nine US soldiers dead. Stoney Portis was the commander of "Black Knight" Troop, stationed at COP Keating. Andrew […]