Christian Tripodi
The Lessons of Afghanistan: Why Countering Someone Else’s Insurgency Is So Hard
The withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021 marked the confirmation in the minds of many not only of the end of the United States’ longest war, but also that of counterinsurgency as a relevant and useful facet of modern military thought. “Once dynamic and desired…counterinsurgency was by then toxic
Worthless Coin: Why the West Should Keep Studying Counterinsurgency
Christian Tripodi and Matthew Wiger The US Army has lost interest in counterinsurgency training. Over the past year, the withdrawal from Afghanistan appears to have drawn a line under COIN’s modern incarnation, while escalation in eastern Europe has focused policymakers’ minds on the possibility of major combat operations against
Worthless COIN? Why the West Should Keep Studying Counterinsurgency
This Irregular Warfare Initiative article was originally posted through our partner organization, the Modern War Institute at West Point. The US Army has lost interest in counterinsurgency training. Over the past year, the withdrawal from Afghanistan appears to have drawn a line under COIN’s modern incarnation, while escalation in
Will Culture Defeat Strategy? The British Military And Irregular Warfare After Afghanistan And Iraq
This Irregular Warfare Initiative article was originally posted through our partner organization, the Modern War Institute at West Point. In their recent introduction to the Irregular Warfare Initiative, Jacob Shapiro and Patrick Howell propose that a combination of Russian revanchism and China’s increasingly muscular global ambitions provides ample opportunity
Bridging the gap between irregular warfare scholars, practitioners, and policymakers.