Losing By Winning: America’s Challenge Waging Counterinsurgency Warfare is an analytical study of... more Losing By Winning: America’s Challenge Waging Counterinsurgency Warfare is an analytical study of America’s experience waging counterinsurgency warfare in the PhilippineAmerican, Vietnam and Iraq Wars. In each war, counterinsurgency warfare was applied to achieve the strategic objectives of American Foreign Policy as outlined by the President of the United States at the outset of each war. Initially, large swaths of the American electorate and political class favored achieving the strategic objectives of each war studied. Over time, as counterinsurgency tactics were put to use, and made headway towards achieving the strategic objectives of the conflict, public support for each war precipitously declined over time and either jeopardized the ability of the United States to complete its counterinsurgency campaign or lose them altogether. This occurred because images of atrocities and perceptions of violations of the laws of warfare (both real or imagined) were formed in the minds of Am...
Journal of European and American Intelligence Studies, 2019
Since 1956 when Mossad operatives provided the CIA with Nikita Khrushchev's speech denouncing Sta... more Since 1956 when Mossad operatives provided the CIA with Nikita Khrushchev's speech denouncing Stalin at the 20th Congress of the Communist Party, Israel has sought to leverage its intelligence capabilities to consolidate its alliance with the United States. The intelligence sharing partnership, highly valued by the American intelligence community, has even endured through high-profile diplomatic crises such as the Iran-Contra and Jonathan Pollard affairs. This paper adds to the existing literature on intelligence cooperation by highlighting the critical role that intelligence sharing played in the development of the strategic alliance between the United States and Israel during the 1980s.
Aldrich Hazen Ames is remembered today as one of the most notable American traitors from the Cold... more Aldrich Hazen Ames is remembered today as one of the most notable American traitors from the Cold War. After volunteering his services to the Soviets in 1985 in exchange for a cash advance of $50,000, Ames became an indispensable asset to the KGB, capable of securing the most sensitive secrets inside the CIA. His treasonous actions led to the deaths of valuable American assets inside the Soviet Union and did permanent damage to the American intelligence community. The psychological motivations that ultimately led Ames to commit treason, specifically his familial background and personal hardships, career trajectory, and political beliefs, are examined. The remarkable spy craft of the KGB and the failure of a joint CIA-FBI counterintelligence operation explains why Ames was not apprehended for nine years.
Losing By Winning: America’s Challenge Waging Counterinsurgency Warfare is an analytical study of... more Losing By Winning: America’s Challenge Waging Counterinsurgency Warfare is an analytical study of America’s experience waging counterinsurgency warfare in the PhilippineAmerican, Vietnam and Iraq Wars. In each war, counterinsurgency warfare was applied to achieve the strategic objectives of American Foreign Policy as outlined by the President of the United States at the outset of each war. Initially, large swaths of the American electorate and political class favored achieving the strategic objectives of each war studied. Over time, as counterinsurgency tactics were put to use, and made headway towards achieving the strategic objectives of the conflict, public support for each war precipitously declined over time and either jeopardized the ability of the United States to complete its counterinsurgency campaign or lose them altogether. This occurred because images of atrocities and perceptions of violations of the laws of warfare (both real or imagined) were formed in the minds of Am...
Journal of European and American Intelligence Studies, 2019
Since 1956 when Mossad operatives provided the CIA with Nikita Khrushchev's speech denouncing Sta... more Since 1956 when Mossad operatives provided the CIA with Nikita Khrushchev's speech denouncing Stalin at the 20th Congress of the Communist Party, Israel has sought to leverage its intelligence capabilities to consolidate its alliance with the United States. The intelligence sharing partnership, highly valued by the American intelligence community, has even endured through high-profile diplomatic crises such as the Iran-Contra and Jonathan Pollard affairs. This paper adds to the existing literature on intelligence cooperation by highlighting the critical role that intelligence sharing played in the development of the strategic alliance between the United States and Israel during the 1980s.
Aldrich Hazen Ames is remembered today as one of the most notable American traitors from the Cold... more Aldrich Hazen Ames is remembered today as one of the most notable American traitors from the Cold War. After volunteering his services to the Soviets in 1985 in exchange for a cash advance of $50,000, Ames became an indispensable asset to the KGB, capable of securing the most sensitive secrets inside the CIA. His treasonous actions led to the deaths of valuable American assets inside the Soviet Union and did permanent damage to the American intelligence community. The psychological motivations that ultimately led Ames to commit treason, specifically his familial background and personal hardships, career trajectory, and political beliefs, are examined. The remarkable spy craft of the KGB and the failure of a joint CIA-FBI counterintelligence operation explains why Ames was not apprehended for nine years.
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