Attacks by US drones have often been presented as forensic, yet only one in 25 victims in Pakistan were identifiably associated with al-Qaeda.
Armed drones, special forces, privatisation and secrecy are the preferred tools of military campaigns from Iraq-Syria to the Sahel. Now, researchers are mapping this landscape in the public interest.
A letter from Raqqa, in the heart of territory controlled by the Islamic State.
What should United Kingdom's defence policy be? A government department has commissioned advice from the noted SWISH management consultancy. This is an exclusive copy of its just completed report.
The Ammerdown Invitation has initiated here a debate on an alternative security policy for the UK. Mediation is a key alternative to the “militarism” the signatories bemoan.
A major new war has begun in the Middle East. But the Islamic State movement is prepared, and the precedents are bleak.
Much of the analysis of the US-led attacks on IS has been from the American end of the telescope. But how does it look from that of its Arab allies?
Washington's strategy to defeat the Islamic State has the same deep flaws that marked earlier phases of the "war on terror".
Islamic State has already taken over significant areas of Iraq and Syria. Jordan abuts both—and could be the next target.
Barack Obama's new strategy against the Islamic State commits the United States to further long-term conflict. It involves a great forgetting of the recent war in Iraq.
A new book by Gabrielle Rifkind and Gianni Picco highlights the urgent relevance of conflict resolution in addressing problems around the world, from Ukraine and Iran to the Islamic State.
The west must understand the Islamic State's worldview, and accept its own failings, if it is to meet the challenge.
