Politics and perceptions can count more than what happens on the battlefield.

Orde Wingate’s counterinsurgency rules.

Losing patience with sporadic conflict.

The U.S. is fighting the wrong war in the Middle East.

A threat to Israel and the West.

The new threats are neither guerrillas nor conventional armies, but something in-between.

Raqqa delenda est.

The one country IS fears.

The case for preemptive action.

Hamas lost. But will that stop it in the future?

“Hoping that a seventy-five-year-old man will die soon is not exactly a sound strategy.”

Only taking and holding territory can achieve decisive military results against Hamas or Islamic State. Unwilling to travel that route, Israel and the U.S. have. . .

By encouraging unrest among Iran’s large and discontented ethnic minorities, Israel can work to weaken its most formidable enemy.