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Drone Strikes and Anti-Americanism

To what extent do drone strikes cause anti-Americanism and an increase in militancy? In a recent Op-Ed in The New York Times, writer and activist Ibrahim Mothana strongly condemns the use of drone...

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Follow-up to Drones and Anti-Americanism

Foreign Affairs is currently carrying a piece by Christopher Swift entitled “The Drone Blowback Fallacy.” In it, Swift uses evidence gathered from his 40 interviews with “tribal leaders, Islamist...

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Why Do We Hate Drones?

Whether it was democratization or WMDs, Iraq was the “pick a reason, love the policy” war. Conversely, drone strikes have become the “pick a reason, hate the policy” war. A consensus appears to be...

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What We’re Reading

From the Monkey Cage: John Huber asks whether theory is getting lost in the “identification revolution.” David Ignatius with a great overview of the difficulties with Obama’s new approach to Syria....

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