Thunderdome: ISIS VS. Taliban in Afghanistan, ANSF Takes the Fight to Both
ISIS would be well advised to note history’s lessons as they begin to wade into battle in Afghanistan, a country known as "The Graveyard of Empires." Read More
Eric Jones
Thunderdome: ISIS VS. Taliban in Afghanistan, ANSF Takes the Fight to Both
Is War Coming to the Caucasus?
There are many signs pointing toward a potentially violent intensification of conflict in the Caucasus. Read More
South Ossetia Signs Integration Treaty With Russia
On March 18, 2015, tensions between Russia and the South Caucasian country of Georgia were ratcheted upward with the signing of an integration treaty between the Georgian breakaway… Read More
Dagestan: Russians Target Islamic Terrorists
On March 21 in Dagestan, Russian police forces effectively sealed off an entire block in the capital city of Makhachkala sometime in the early morning hours and proceeded to carry… Read More
Kadyrov Expands Role of Chechen Special Forces
In February, the head of the Chechen Republic of the Russian Federation, Ramzan Kadyrov, announced the creation of a “state-of-the-art Special Forces training center the size of… Read More
Afghan President Ghani Visits Washington D.C.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani visited the United States for the first time this past week, spending five days in the nation’s capital. Ghani is in the midst of an effort to… Read More
Gagauzia: Another Eastern European Pressure Point
On March 22, voters in Moldova’s autonomous region of Gagauzia went to the polls to select their next governor (also known as a bashkan). Pro-Russian (and self-avowedly… Read More
Al-Qaeda Rebuilds, Awaits U.S. Withdrawal from Afghanistan
Lost amid all of the media focus on the Islamic State (IS) has been the focus on the threat al-Qaeda continues to present to the United States and the country’s security… Read More
How to Force Iran to do our Dirty Work in Iraq
On Saturday, Will Rodriguez published a piece here at SOFREP that laid bare an apparent use of American-made weaponry by Iran in Iraq. My article is not a point-by-point… Read More
Boris Nemtsov Killed in Moscow
While the government of Russian President Vladimir Putin continues to come under fire from European and American officials for their unacknowledged support of the rebels battling… Read More
Uzbekistan: Human Rights Abuses, Line of Succession, and Central Asian Geopolitics
In part one of this article series on Uzbekistan, I explored the changing security dynamic of Central Asia and the impact that the adjustments have had on both United States policy… Read More
Uzbekistan: U.S. Policy and the Changing Security Landscape of Central Asia
An analysis of Uzbekistan and its role in the subtle but important changes in the security dynamic of Central Asia, and why you should care about it. Read More
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani: Not Hamid Karzai
As former Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai prepared to leave power in his final year, he made a series of decisions to restrain International Security Assistance Forces (ISAF)… Read More
Georgia: Another War on the Horizon?
The consequences for a resurgent Russia’s policies undermining territorial integrity of several states in eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia have become more… Read More
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