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.

Strategy and insurgency: an evolution in thinking?

America's internecine counter-insurgency debate is now making some progress, though not on a single predefined path.

By Adam Elkus and John P. Sullivan

/ 16 Aug 2010

Science, defence and strategy

Without strategy, the science of war overtakes the art of war.

By Adam Elkus

/ 6 Jan 2010

Operational art and modern American strategy

America's strategic ambiguity in Afghanistan and elsewhere has made understanding its operational doctrine all the more crucial.

By Adam Elkus

/ 11 Dec 2009

Global cities – global gangs

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.

By Adam Elkus and John P. Sullivan

/ 2 Dec 2009

Border zones and insecurity in the Americas

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.

By Adam Elkus and John P. Sullivan

/ 24 Nov 2009

Urban siege in south Asia

A new wave of urban assaults poses a severe challenge in the cities of south Asia and beyond.

By Adam Elkus and John P. Sullivan

/ 9 Nov 2009

Security in the network-state

Questions of state change and sovereignty are becoming intimately linked with issues of global security, with talk of "failing states," "lawless zones," and "ungoverned spaces&

By Adam Elkus and John P. Sullivan

/ 6 Oct 2009