THE HILL

In the months since Israel launched its offensive into Gaza in the wake of the brutal terrorist attacks by Hamas on Oct. 7, the Israeli government and military have inflicted a catastrophic level of civilian harm on the Palestinian population...

WES J. BRYANT

Nearly three months into Israel’s war in Gaza, the casualty data that has emerged is deeply troubling to me as an expert in close air support and targeting...

THE HILL

I spent a military career in the war on terror as a US Air Force Joint Terminal Attack Controller (JTAC)—the airpower experts who coordinate and call in airstrikes…

IRREGULAR WARFARE INITIATIVE

Explosive reports from major news outlets in September declared that, last year, tech guru and billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk had shut down the Starlink service for the Ukrainian military in Crimea, thwarting Ukraine’s ability to conduct a major counteroffensive against the Russian navy…

LIEBER INSTITUTE FOR LAW AND LAND WARFARE

Last December, weeks before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the New York Times ran an article that describes a highly secretive strike cell operating during the U.S. campaign in Syria and run by a small task force of U.S. special operators...

MODERN WAR INSTITUTE

In the United States, we often analyze distant armed conflicts and counterterrorism efforts as if watching from a remote observation tower…

REAL CLEAR DEFENSE

June 2014 – Baghdad. We were treading a thin line, and we all knew it. I was the senior enlisted joint terminal attack controller for the 300-member special operations task force sent to Iraq to quell the rising threat of ISIS…

TASK & PURPOSE

They started the US war against ISIS. Now they have an important message for Trump on abandoning the Kurds…

AIR FORCE TIMES

It was late August 2014. I was one of the handful of American military forces in Baghdad, Iraq’s capital. Only a few months before, ISIS laid siege…