A divide and conquer strategy in Iraq will only work if it is followed by a comprehensive post-combat blueprint. “Divide and Conquer,” the classic principle of strategic warfare, has been propagated by many a famous military strategist. Niccolo Machiavelli, for example, in his Dell’arte della Guerra (Book 6 of The...
The competition between al-Qaeda and IS could pose a threat as well as an opportunity to the West. Over the past six months, the rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) — now known as the Islamic State group (IS) — and its sudden capture of...
The Egyptian Black Bloc is not the first example of anarchism in Egypt. When in January 2013, Egyptian protesters commemorated the two-year anniversary of Hosni Mubarak's ouster, a mysterious group emerged in Cairo. Protesting against the Morsi regime, the newly-formed anarchist “Black Bloc” openly declared they would not eschew violence to...
