Lt-Col Michel Goya’s ‘Vietnam Spiral’ in Afghanistan

Lt-Col Michel Goya, director of studies at the new Institut de recherche stratégique de l’Ecole militaire, in France, has published an article on the U.S. military’s ‘Vietnam Spiral’ in Afghanistan. The text is in French but struck me as somewhat out of key with other articles, footage and anecdotes on the U.S. military’s efforts in [...]

Out now: Cooperating for Peace and Security

Bruce C. Jones, Shepard Forman and Richard Gowan, all of the Center for International Cooperation, New York University, have published a great edited volume on the changing U.S. relation to multilateral institutions since the Cold War, with particular emphasis on the changes brought on by the 9/11 attacks and by the events that they provoked. [...]