by Secretary John Kerry | Nov 11, 2013 | Monitor
Ed. note: This is cross-posted from DipNote, the official blog of the U.S. Department of State. See the original post here. As we commemorate Veterans Day here at home, the State Department is working with Team Rubicon to deploy a team of...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | Jul 16, 2013 | Monitor
By Patricia H Kushlis Within months after I arrived in Manila summer 1992, the US Navy took its ships and sailed off – the first time the Philippines had been left to fend for itself after 350 years of Spanish rule and 94 years of American military presence. (Photo...
by Bill Putnam | May 22, 2013 | Monitor
By: Bill Putnam The Army has an unfortunate tradition of considering insurgent conflict a sideshow effort and relegating the study of insurgencies to the fringes of military science. The Philippines campaign is a…
by Peter F. Schaefer | Apr 26, 2013 | Monitor
By: Peter F. Schaefer If we ignore village life – or try to bend it to our view of what it should be – we will fail in Afghanistan as we did in Vietnam.
by Joseph J. Collins | Apr 11, 2013 | Monitor
By: Joseph J. Collins One consistently wrong—but always convenient—prediction has been the improbability of ground wars and the declining utility of ground forces.