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Author Archives: Luke Ford
Decoding Military Historian Antulio Echevarria
Antulio Echevarria occupies a different intellectual niche from David Kilcullen or Frank Hoffman. He is less a practitioner of counterinsurgency and more a Clausewitzian historian of strategy. His work tries to clarify what modern conflict is, rather than inventing new … Continue reading
Decoding Counter-Insurgency Expert David Kilcullen
David Kilcullen does not fit neatly into the usual categories. He is not a think-tank hawk pushing for the next intervention, and he is not a pure academic writing for journals nobody reads. He came up through the counterinsurgency wars … Continue reading
The Jurisdictional Wars: Alliance Theory and the Battle for Power Among America First Think Tanks
Nobody in this world says they want power. They say they are fixing a failure. The America First think tank ecosystem of 2026 is no different. Its organizing myth is a diagnosis: we won the election but lost the state. … Continue reading
The Jurisdictional Wars: Alliance Theory and the Battle for Status at the Foreign Policy Research Institute
Nobody at the Foreign Policy Research Institute says they want to shape American strategy because it gives them power. They say they see reality clearly. They read maps without moral distortion. They understand the system at a level that moralizers … Continue reading
The Jurisdictional Wars: Alliance Theory and the Battle for Status Through “Structural Conspiracy Theories” in Elite Media
Nobody in elite media says they promote conspiracy theories. They say they explain systems. They trace historical legacies. They map incentive structures. That is the move. It turns causal claims into status claims, and it defines who gets to interpret … Continue reading
High-Brow New York Times Op/Ed By Iran Expert Destroyed By Reality
Eyal Yakoby posts: “BREAKING: Mojtaba Khamenei was reportedly severely injured, one of his legs has been amputated, and he may not even be aware that he is the Supreme Leader.” I spent my weekend reading the 2025 book “Iran’s Grand … Continue reading
It’s Hard & Often Pointless To Regulate War
Carl Schmitt argued that law cannot control politics in moments of existential conflict. His famous formulation, “sovereign is he who decides on the exception,” means that real authority belongs to whoever can suspend normal rules when survival is at stake. … Continue reading
‘Revolutionary War and the Development of International Humanitarian Law’
That’s the title of an essay by Australian law lecturer Amanda Alexander in the 2023 book, Making Endless War: The Vietnam and Arab-Israeli Conflicts in the History of International Law. She writes: The distinction between civilians and combatants and the … Continue reading
Decoding Hybrid War Expert Frank Hoffman
Frank Hoffman occupies a specific niche inside the U.S. national security ecosystem. He is not primarily a regional expert like Michael Eisenstadt and not a political advocate like think tank policy entrepreneurs. His role is conceptual architect. His main contribution … Continue reading
Zineba Riboua: Trump’s Middle East: Operation Epic Fury is the Logical Conclusion of Trump’s Foreign Policy
Zineb Riboua’s essay explains Trump’s strategy, legitimizes the war, and frames it as structural rather than impulsive. Her biggest move it makes is rehabilitating Trump as a coherent actor rather than a chaotic one. The foreign policy establishment tends to … Continue reading