Foreign Affairs published a review of Dr. John Tierney's remarkable book Chasing Ghosts: Unconventional Warfare in American History in its May/June 2008 issue. {read more}

Noting that the measure of success enjoyed by US counterterrorism efforts hasn't been due to anything done by its public diplomacy activities, IWP Adjunct Professor and counterterror expert Christopher Harmon discusses the public diplomacy strategy the US must pursue in order to make further inroads upon terrorists.  Professor Harmon's essay draws upon numerous examples from terrorists around the world and offers a strategic look at the defensive and offensive use of words and images to sway public opinion and surpass al Qaeda in the global war of ideas.  To download Prof. Harmon's essay, please click here:  Harmon public diplomacy {read more}

IWP Professor J. Michael Waller traveled to Afghanistan with Blackwater Worldwide to study and participate in the company's training programs for the US military. Those programs included the setting up and training of Afghan counternarcotics police and border police, and supporting the Army's 82nd Airborne Division with low-cost, low-altitude drops of ammunition and supplies to troops at forward operating bases (FOBs) in heavy combat areas on Afghanistan's border with Pakistan.In this article for Serviam magazine, Dr Waller writes about the partnership between the US military, Afghan authorities and private military contractors (PMCs) to fight the drug war in Afghanistan. See Dr Waller's YouTube videos from the trip at: http://www.youtube.com/user/sirbart1183. {read more}

IWP Adjunct Professor Brian Kelley offers some personal views on the widely-screened film "Breach," which concerns the Robert Hanssen spy case in which Professor Kelley was wrongly implicated.  The film makes only oblique reference to Kelley's part in the Hanssen espionage case because, as its producer remarked to Professor Kelley, "What happened to you was so powerful that it would have overwhelmed the story if I tried to bring your case into the film any more than I did."To read Professor Kelley's remarks, which appeared in the March 2008 edition of Studies in Intelligence, please download the document below: Kelley on Breach {read more}

IWP is pleased to announce that, thanks to the fine efforts of MA candidate Lucie Adamski, sweatshirts and other items emblazoned with the Institute's logo are now available for sale.  {read more}

IWP Academic Dean and Professor of History Dr. Marek Jan Chodakiewicz discusses candidly some pertinent and forthright details of Poland's latest counterintelligence crisis: the allegations that six undercover Polish military intelligence officers posted their pictures from a secret mission to Afghanistan on Poland's equivalent of Facebook.com.  Dr. Chodakiewicz brings to the debate surrounding this latest crisis a description of the palimpsest of Poland's intelligence services, the personalities that staff and control them, and the controversy surrounding their decommunization. {read more}