Today Foreign Intrigue is pleased to present an opinion piece by a guest contributor. Chris Masiello has submitted an article on the role of the United States in the dynamic geopolitical conflict currently engulfing large portions of the Middle East. Chris spent four years as an enlisted soldier in the United States Army, deploying to Iraq for 15 months in 2008-09 as an […]
Below is a condensed version of my article series on military modernization in Georgia following the Rose Revolution. Thank you for reading. Eric Jones Foreign Intrigue Introduction On November 23, 2003, Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze resigned his office amidst calls for his removal. The Rose Revolution, a bloodless addition to a series of rebellions against […]
Today, Foreign Intrigue is pleased to bring you an article by guest writer CPT Sam Rosenberg of the United States Army on military multinational partnership at the company level. Sam is a United States Army Infantry Officer and a Downing Scholar at Georgetown’s Security Studies Program where he is an M.A. candidate. Sam has held leadership positions […]
Today, we’re pleased to present an exceptionally important article on the war against the Islamic State (IS) in Northern Iraq. Guest contributor CPT (P) Chris Mercado has conducted an interview with an Iraqi military officer active in the fight on the ground against IS. The duration of the interview lasted several hours. The threat to Iraqi military fighting […]
Today, we here at Foreign Intrigue are very pleased to present an exceptional article by Alexandra Jones on extremism and motorcycle gangs. Alexandra has been a strategic crime analyst with the police in The Hague, The Netherlands for the past eight years. Her main interest is in criminal street gangs, network analysis, and threat assessments. She has […]
Foreign Intrigue is pleased to provide an exceptional article on Security Force Assistance by guest contributor CPT (P) Chris Mercado. An Active Duty U.S. Army Infantry Officer, Chris will attend the Georgetown Security Studies Program as a General Wayne A. Downing Scholar of the Combating Terrorism Center, USMA. Captain Mercado served three combat deployments between Iraq and Afghanistan as […]
Foreign Intrigue is pleased to present another article by former United States Army Special Forces soldier Dave Coughran. John Bertetto contributed to this piece as editor. An alternate edit of this article appears in the 2014 issue of the Harvard Kennedy School Review. Dave is a 2014 Master in Public Policy candidate at the John […]
Today, Foreign Intrigue is pleased to provide an article from Guest Contributor Dave Coughran that was previously posted at the Harvard Kennedy School Review. The article examines unconventional warfare. Dave is a 2014 Master in Public Policy candidate at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, currently studying diplomacy and international affairs. […]
We are pleased to have the opportunity to publish another article today written by guest contributor Clayton Henry. Clayton is a former intelligence analyst in the United States Army and is currently a graduate student studying U.S. foreign policy and national security in the Department of History at The American University in Washington, DC. Eric Jones Editor […]
We are pleased to have the opportunity to publish an article today written by a guest contributor to Foreign Intrigue. Clayton Henry is a former intelligence analyst in the United States Army. Clayton served three years in total and deployed to eastern Afghanistan for a year in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. He is currently a graduate […]
