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About Adam Elkus

Adam Elkus is an analyst specializing in foreign policy and security. He is currently Associate Editor at Red Team Journal, and his articles have been published in West Point CTC Sentinel, Foreign Policy in Focus, Small Wars Journal and other publications. He blogs at Rethinking Security, Dreaming 5GW, and The Huffington Post. He is currently contributing to the Center for Threat Awareness’ ThreatsWatch project.

Articles by Adam Elkus

Monday 16th August

Strategy and insurgency: an evolution in thinking?

John P. Sullivan and Adam Elkus, 16 August 2010
America's internecine counter-insurgency debate is now making some progress, though not on a single predefined path.
Wednesday 6th January

Science, defence and strategy

Adam Elkus, 6 January 2010
Without strategy, the science of war overtakes the art of war.
Friday 11th December

Operational art and modern American strategy

Adam Elkus, 11 December 2009
America's strategic ambiguity in Afghanistan and elsewhere has made understanding its operational doctrine all the more crucial.
Wednesday 2nd December

Global cities – global gangs

John P. Sullivan and Adam Elkus, 2 December 2009
Global cities linking global economic circuits are also home to transnational criminals and global gangs. This essay examines the policy implications of gangs in the global city.
Tuesday 24th November

Border zones and insecurity in the Americas

John P. Sullivan and Adam Elkus, 24 November 2009
Border zones are potential incubators of conflict. Criminal gangs exploit weak state presence to forge a parallel state and prosecute their criminal enterprises sustained by fear, violence and brutality.
Monday 9th November

Urban siege in south Asia

John P. Sullivan and Adam Elkus, 9 November 2009
A new wave of urban assaults poses a severe challenge in the cities of south Asia and beyond.
Tuesday 6th October

Security in the network-state

John P. Sullivan and Adam Elkus, 6 October 2009
States are not so much declining, failing and yielding as transforming their very nature. The network is the right metaphor to grasping the new state's complexity
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