Center for Strategic Communication

If Skills Sold: Failed States Edition

A new Guardian op-ed declares that failed states are a “myth” that was “invented” in order to support Western interventions in the global South. While it is plausible that some within the NGO community are invested in the concept of failed...

Looking at the lessons since Black Hawk Down

This October sees the twentieth anniversary of events that came to be known as Black Hawk Down, in which eighteen US military personnel and hundreds of Somalis died. Over a thousand Somalis were injured, hundreds of them civilians, though estimates vary greatly. It so...