From Russia, With Four Shots to the Back
Like many casual Putin watchers, Boris Nemtsov wasn't a name I heard regularly. American observers tend to hear about Russian affairs whenever they have »
Saddam's Ashes: The Roots of Iraqi Insurgency
ISIS’s rise as a local power was near inevitable considering the discord thrown at their feet. The 2003 invasion of Iraq ripped the sutures from »
A Caliphate in Reverse: ISIS's Inevitable Decline
As forewarning to anyone following the conflict in the Middle East - don’t take network news anchors seriously. I generally tally this as a given, »
We've Reached Peak ISIS
One of the impressions you get from this latest spate of beheading videos is a sense of raw desperation. The western media has been falling all »
About the Author
Adam Patterson is a Washington, DC based writer who covers a wide range of topics in global security. My primary interests include war, substate conflict, terrorism, »