Special Edition Irregular Warfare

By Dr. Thomas A. Marks

Events in the area of counterterrorism and homeland security have proceeded at a dizzying pace. Two decades that began with 9/11 – a terrorist operation carried out by a would-be global insurgency, al-Qaeda – have now brought us to a point where former revolutionary states have joined sub-state actors in strategic and even tactical approach. The vocabulary of counterterrorism has been expropriated by threats such as China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea even as their as...