Topic: Seth Jones

Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan

The Encyclopedia Britannica - 858 days ago
The article reviews the book " What Fischbach's story has revealed, perhaps contrary to what Shenhav envisages, is that the struggle of many Miz- rahim to situate their own experience in the larger national agenda, which also includes mortgaging their property claims ...

In The Graveyard Of Scholarship

Forbes - 931 days ago
So when an author purports to explain "what factors contributed to the rise of Afghanistan's insurgency," as Jones does in his new book In the Graveyard of Empires: Let's start with the hubris of discussing the causes of the current ...

The Number Cruncher Who Knows How to End Terrorism

Esquire - 1167 days ago
But until Seth Jones, nobody actually sought an empirical answer. Lessons for Countering al Qa'ida, Jones studied 648 terrorist groups and accumulated overwhelming evidence that the United States may be about to make the same mistakes in Afghanistan that were made ...

Study questions US strategy against al-Qaida

AP News - 1295 days ago
Rand research group says US can defeat al-Qaida with change in strategyThe United States can defeat al-Qaida if it relies less on force and more on policing and intelligence to root out the terror group's leaders, a new study contends. "Keep ...