Mission Impossible: Keeping Track of US Special Ops in Africa

Mission Impossible: Keeping Track of US Special Ops in Africa

The Defense Department’s own Africa Center for Strategic Studies, a research institution dedicated to the analysis of security issues on that continent, drew attention to skyrocketing terrorism fatalities there in recent years. It also published a map of “Africa’s Active Militant Islamist Groups” that showed 22 organizations menacing the continent

Troubling finds within the House probe of ‘Distorted’ intel on Daesh ‘ISIS’

Troubling finds within the House probe of ‘Distorted’ intel on Daesh ‘ISIS’

CENTCOM established an intelligence “fusion center,” a specially equipped JIC facility staffed around-the-clock, to serve as a “focal point” for Daesh-related intelligence. Interviewees recalled only informal communications noting the center’s establishment, and some were also uncertain about the center’s organizational structure, responsibilities, and how it was determined which JIC analysts would participate.

Former Pentagon advisor: ‘We Have No Idea What War Is’

Former Pentagon advisor: ‘We Have No Idea What War Is’

A barroom brawl is not war, because it’s not organized, and it has no political ends. Economic competition between states, however fierce, is not war, because it’s not bloody—it’s mass, it’s organized, and political—but it’s not violent.